Northshore School District Protects Staff with Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt-PRO Anti-Spam Solution.OTTAWA -- CanIt-PRO protects K-12 district's faculty and staff from spam and viruses. The Northshore School District Northshore School District is a public school district covering portions of both King County and Snohomish County, Washington. The district's service area covers Bothell (including the Canyon Park neighborhood in Snohomish County), Woodinville, Kenmore as well as portions of of Bothell, Washington Bothell is a city located in the state of Washington. The population was 30,150 at the time of the 2000 census. Prior to annexation and the 2000 census, the northern portions of Bothell which lie in Snohomish County were considered a part of the Alderwood Manor-Bothell North , has chosen Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt-PRO solution to stop spam and viruses before they reach the district's 3,500 e-mail users. Jon Wiederspan, the district's Network Operations Manager See datacenter manager. , said, "After seeing Roaring Penguin's CanIt-PRO featured as one of the top solutions in product reviews, we decided to evaluate it, and we were very pleased with the results. CanIt-PRO is now stopping more than 60% of our incoming mail as spam and our staff is relieved by the results." Previously, the district had been using the mail filtering capabilities built into its mail server and had considered building its own solution. Wiederspan adds, "RFC (Request For Comments) A document that describes the specifications for a recommended technology. Although the word "request" is in the title, if the specification is ratified, it becomes a standards document. 822 and realtime blacklists were catching only about half of the spam that our users received, and the porn ads that most disturb people were getting through. Building our own solution was going to require more time and management than we had the resources to support. CanIt-PRO provided us with everything we needed and it's easy to install, configure and manage over the web." Northshore School District is also using the Clam AntiVirus Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), is a free open source antivirus software toolkit for Windows and Unix-like operating systems. One of its main uses is with mail exchange servers as a server-side email virus scanner. software that is bundled with CanIt-PRO, and reports that the solution has virtually eliminated e-mail-borne virus attachments. CanIt-PRO is ideal for campuses, ISPs and large organizations where global filtering policies must be balanced with individuals' ability to have the final decision over what is and is not spam. CanIt(TM) products offer the industry's most complete and flexible anti-spam and anti-virus solutions. They can be deployed in any enterprise e-mail environment, including on all Linux and UNIX servers. As a stand-alone gateway appliance, CanIt can protect e-mail environments running non-UNIX servers, such as Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. and Novell Groupwise GroupWise is a cross-platform collaborative software product from Novell, Inc. offering e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging and document management. Summary GroupWise can operate on a number of server and workstation platforms. . A trial version of CanIt or CanIt-PRO can be obtained at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/anti_spam/get_canit_request.php. About Roaring Penguin Founded in 1999, Roaring Penguin Software Inc., specializes in e-mail filtering Email filtering is the processing of e-mail to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to artificial intelligence, and to . The company focuses on fighting spam at the mail server, with the acclaimed MIMEDefang and CanIt product lines. Today, Roaring Penguin develops, deploys and supports its spam- and virus-fighting products for customers that include campuses, ISPs, web hosts, government offices and large enterprises. For more information visit www.roaringpenguin.com. About Northshore School District The Northshore School District is located in the Seattle-Everett metropolitan area north and east of Lake Washington and encompasses the cities of Bothell, Kenmore and Woodinville. The district emphasizes a strong program in basic skills enhanced by offerings in gifted, alternative, vocational/career education, and award-winning music and art curricula. Special needs are met through integrated learning, Head Start, and English-as-a-Second-Language programs. For more information visit www.nsd.org. |
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