Texas Christian University Fights Spam and Other E-Mail-Bourne Threats with CipherTrust IronMail; CipherTrust Helps Protect Leading Educational Institution's Messaging Infrastructure.ATLANTA -- CipherTrust, Inc., the leader in messaging security, today announced that Texas Christian University Texas Christian University, at Fort Worth; Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); coeducational; opened 1873 at Thorp Spring, chartered 1874 as Add Ran Male and Female College. It assumed its present name in 1902 and moved to Fort Worth in 1910. (TCU (Transmission Control Unit) A communications control unit controlled by the computer that does not execute internally stored programs. Contrast with front end processor, which executes its own instructions. ) is protecting approximately 15,000 campus-wide e-mail users from spam and malicious e-mail threats using CipherTrust's award-winning IronMail(R) e-mail security solution. IronMail is an all-in-one appliance that sits at the enterprise gateway, blocking inbound e-mail threats and ensuring that outbound message content adheres to an enterprise's email policies. TCU, a liberal arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. university located in Ft. Worth, Texas, has more than 8,600 students, 300 full-time faculty members, and 1,500 staff members. Eight 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. e-mail servers handle the university's mail volume. Prior to implementing IronMail, a deluge Deluge (dĕl`y  j), in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of Noah and the creatures in his ark. of spam messages reaching the University's mail servers frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: the TCU community. In addition, TCU needed a solution that could monitor outbound messages for tracking and logging purposes. Since implementing CipherTrust's IronMail to monitor all incoming and most outbound mail, TCU has recognized approximately 97 percent reduction in the amount of spam and malicious e-mail activity. "We tested multiple anti-spam solutions before selecting IronMail based on its exceptional accuracy for identifying and stopping spam and other e-mail threats," said Brian Lucas, server administrator for Texas Christian University. "IronMail is a true gateway product; it is a very customizable box that can be managed by us to enforce our specific e-mail policies. Other anti-spam products do not offer the same granular control that IronMail does." CipherTrust's IronMail e-mail appliance A device that is specialized for accessing e-mail. Pocket-sized models are designed for portability, while desktop models are geared for ease of use and eliminate the need to turn a computer on and launch an e-mail program just to check mail. provides the most effective, comprehensive protection for enterprise messaging environments. Deployed at the gateway to stop threats before they reach critical mail servers, IronMail is a secure appliance that protects the entire e-mail system. Additionally, IronMail's comprehensive end-user reporting and management capabilities were a key factor in TCU's decision to select the appliance as the University's campus-wide anti-spam and anti-virus solution. "Today's college students grew up with the Internet and thus e-mail is as natural a communications medium as the phone. Additionally, many colleges are embracing e-mail to facilitate timely communications with professors and classmates Classmates can refer to either:
About Texas Christian University Established in 1873, TCU is a private university located in Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. , with more than 8,600 students. The university offers more than 98 undergraduate majors and 21 graduate degrees in 57 areas, including 11 doctoral fields of study. More information is available at http://www.tcu.edu. About CipherTrust, Inc. CipherTrust, Inc. is the leader in messaging security. Recognized by IDC as the market leader, the Company's award-winning IronMail appliance protects the messaging systems of more enterprise e-mail users than any other solution, including more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100. CipherTrust pioneered messaging security by uniquely combining the five critical e-mail security components of spam and fraud prevention, virus and work protection, policy and content compliance, e-mail privacy The protection of electronic mail from unauthorized access and inspection is known as electronic privacy. In countries with a constitutional guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence, e-mail is equated with letters and thus legally protected from all forms of eavesdropping. , and intrusion prevention See IPS and IDS. into a single easy to deploy and manage platform. The Company is backed by top tier investors including Battery Ventures and Greylock Partners. For more information about CipherTrust, please visit www.ciphertrust.com or call 877.448.8625. CipherTrust and IronMail are registered trademarks of CipherTrust, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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