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Mirapoint and CampusEAI Consortium Partner to Provide Multi-Layered Messaging Security to University E-Mail.


Partnership Provides Best-of-Breed and Affordable Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Solution to CampusEAI Consortium CampusEAI Consortium (CEAI) is located in Cleveland, Ohio. It is an independent, global, not-for-profit provider of information technology services and consulting provider focused on helpings it's member universities, colleges and schools to implement their Oracle Portal technology.  Members

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, today announced that the CampusEAI Consortium (CEAI CEAI Christian Educators Association International
CEAI Campus EAI (Consortium) 
) has selected Mirapoint to provide anti-virus and anti-spam solutions to its members. CEAI Colleges and universities are now assured secure and reliable enterprise e-mail security through the CEAI Mirapoint offering.

The CEAI-Mirapoint partnership provides institutions with the flexibility and freedom to deploy the CEAI Mirapoint Anti-virus and Anti-spam solution on-site or have it hosted by CEAI. Institutions can also choose to use the CEAI Mirapoint Anti-virus and Anti-spam solution in conjunction with their existing enterprise e-mail solution or CEAI's enterprise e-mail solutions.

"Key requirement for CEAI is reliability, functionality and cost. CEAI selected Mirapoint because of its proven track record of delivering robust and cost-effective messaging solutions to the education community," said Anjli Jain, executive director for CampusEAI Consortium. "By choosing CEAI Mirapoint Anti-virus and Anti-spam, our members are now ensured an affordable enterprise e-mail security solution."

"Mirapoint's security expertise will serve as an ideal complement to CEAI's information technology solution portfolio for institutions of varying sizes and requirements," said Bethany Mayer, chief marketing officer for Mirapoint. "While institutions' size and requirements may vary, one aspect that will not vary is their need for secure enterprise e-mail, which is where Mirapoint can add significant value to CEAI's members."

"With CEAI Mirapoint Anti-virus and Anti-spam protection applied to our hosted CEAI enterprise email solution, we rest easier knowing our campus email is safe from threats," said Mike Cuchna, Vice President for Technology and Institutional Research at Merced College. "By adding CEAI Mirapoint Anti-virus and Anti-spam to our hosted CEAI enterprise email solution, we have deployed the most secure and reliable enterprise email security solution in the higher education higher education

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 space."

Mirapoint's RazorGate's multi-layered security starts with MailHurdle connection management technology, which drops up to 80 percent of spam at the edge before network bandwidth, storage, processor and administration resources are spent. When combined with RAPID anti-spam overall catch-rates upwards of 98 percent are achieved. RAPID is able to detect spam outbreaks in any language or message format, including image spam An e-mail advertisement in the form of an image in the message rather than text in order to avoid detection as spam. Spam filters typically analyze words in a message, which is relatively fast, but scanning images with optical character recognition (OCR) to extract the text is slow. , as they emerge providing up-to-the-minute protection.

The RazorGate appliance delivers an industry leading message throughput of some 25,315,200 messages per day, equating to more performance at half the price of other leading email security appliances. These performance breakthroughs come after the RazorGate's inclusion in InfoWorld's Leaderboard lead·er·board  
n.
A board that displays the leaders in a competition.


leaderboard
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a board displaying the current scores of the leading competitors, esp in a golf tournament
 section. The Leaderboard highlights the RazorGate's "Excellent" rating of 9.2, making it the score to beat in the "Security - Anti-Spam" segment for the email security products tested by InfoWorld.

About The CampusEAI Consortium

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 that helps its members save time and money by providing community source solutions. Members include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business,  (MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology ), McGill University, The University of Exeter, the University of Melbourne
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 and Foothill-De Anza Community College District. For more information, visit www.campuseai.org.

About Mirapoint

Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

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