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SC Magazine Awards Mirapoint's RazorGate 100 Highest Rating for Email Security Appliance
RazorGate Outperforms Email Security Competitors IronPort and Ciphertrust;
Excels in Ease of Use and Performance Categories

SUNNYVALE, Calif., November 18, 2004 — Mirapoint, a proven leader in email server and security appliances, today announced the RazorGate 100 email security appliance has received an overall four-star rating, the highest rating for a full-function, email security appliance. After completing a comprehensive, independent review, SC Magazine scored the RazorGate 100 higher than its nearest competitors overall and gave the appliance five stars in the “Ease of Use’ and “Performance” categories.

“Mirapoint was founded in 1997 with the specific goal of designing the highest performance, most reliable email servers and security appliances. Our latest RazorGate appliance clearly continues that tradition.” said Barry Ariko, CEO for Mirapoint. “Our list of satisfied service provider and enterprise customers, and now this SC Magazine recognition, is additional proof we continue to achieve our product goals.”

The RazorGate anti-spam technology was also recognized by InfoWorld as “smartest spam-stopper" for its high catch-rates and zero false positives. Additionally, the RazorGate email security appliance also received CRN’s "Test Center Recommended" award in 2004. The RazorGate appliance won these awards because of its field-proven 99.999% reliability, leading SPECmail performance and consistent ability to achieve high catch-rates for spam and virus filtering with near zero false positives. Customers and readers can see the high marks the RazorGate email security appliance has achieved in the November issue of SC Magazine .

Complete Email Security; Only From Messaging Expert Mirapoint
Mirapoint is the only vendor in the industry with proven email server and security appliances for any size organization. Designed to complement any email server, Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, as well as provide advanced management of message traffic through policy enforcement tools, content filters, and detailed reporting. Mirapoint’s Message Server is the industry’s only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access, and management with Mirapoint’s comprehensive, multi-layered Full-Spectrum email security technology. The Message Server is designed to support any enterprise, service provider, government, or education customer trying to deliver email to a broad base of users that demand anytime, anywhere access to carrier-grade email services. Both the RazorGate email security appliances and the Message Server appliances are available with the MailHurdle and new Rapid Anti-Spam technology.

About Mirapoint
Mirapoint® is a leader in solutions for message networks used by service provider, enterprise, education and government institutions. Customers use Mirapoint solutions, including the RazorGate email security appliances, to build message networks that intelligently and securely route, store, access and manage Internet messages, including 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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