Smaller businesses get brighter mail
Smaller businesses get brighter mail
Brightmail and IronPort have expanded their partnership to help ISPs and small businesses fight against the constant bombardment of spam emails that are causing increasing headaches month after month.
Their core focus will still reside in enterprises, but this new agreement will allow a wider range of companies to benefit from their email security systems.
The partnership coincides with the release of IronPort's C-Series, which contains IronPort's Reputation FilteringTM - an optional anti-virus module; IronPort's content scanning system; and Brightmail Anti-SpamTM technology.
Scott Weiss, CEO of IronPort Systems, said. "When our partnership began, it was quickly obvious that the combination of Brightmail and IronPort technologies was a natural fit, and industry-leading anti-spam technology from Brightmail was a key component to constructing IronPort's new high performance security appliances.
"The IronPort-Brightmail combination resulted in a product so compelling that nine out of 10 customers that try the product buy it. You can't achieve results like this unless you clearly have the best product on the market, and we are looking to build on this success with additional collaboration plans."
The statistics for Brightmail are impressive. It filtered more than 100 billion messages for its customers in 2004 and protects about 300 million mailboxes all over the world, that is 25 percent of mailboxes globally.
It uses source filters, signatures, heuristics, content filters and call-to-action rules to deliver a range of spam protection for email environments that blocks unwanted mail whilst allowing legitimate messages to go through.
Enrique Salem, president and CEO of Brightmail, added. "Today, all sizes of enterprises and ISPs recognise the need to secure their email systems from the harmful effects of spam, viruses and other email-borne threats. Brightmail's partnership with IronPort has allowed our combined solution to protect tens of millions of mailboxes worldwide, and with our expanded collaboration, we will protect millions more."
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