Reputation Hurdle Stops Illicit Threats at the Gate
SAN FRANCISCO (RSA 2008, Booth #532), April 7, 2008 – Mirapoint Software, the secure messaging experts, today announced the Mirapoint Reputation Hurdle™, a global IP reputation service that will determine the legitimacy of the incoming email traffic, providing an additional defense layer to the RazorGate security appliance. The company will demonstrate the new capabilities at RSA 2008 at Booth #532, taking place at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, April 7-10, 2008.
Mirapoint’s Reputation Hurdle provides the best of breed IP reputation service to guard against unwanted senders. Serving as the first layer of protection against spam, phishing and malware including: worms, Trojan horses, rootkits, spyware, adware and zombies/botnets, Mirapoint’s Reputation Hurdle removes up to 80 percent of unwanted threats by blocking malicious email before it reaches the mail system. Protecting businesses from the onslaught of spam and virus attacks, Reputation Hurdle leverages the collective intelligence of 700,000 detection points to provide the most accurate reputation service in the industry.
“Over 120 billion messages are sent by zombies daily,” said Alan Elliot, vice president of marketing, Mirapoint. “Mirapoint offers one of the most comprehensive messaging security solutions for enterprises with the introduction of Reputation Hurdle. Reputation Hurdle extends our leading SMTP envelope technology which includes MailHurdle, Dual Scan antispam engines and SPF, making RazorGate the industry’s most comprehensive security solution.”
“Mirapoint is a premier email security player because they offer a full spectrum of security defenses,” said Michael Osterman, president and founder of Osterman Research. “Mirapoint’s Reputation Hurdle adds an additional outer layer of protection based on sender behavior, offering a comprehensive protection against spam, phishing and malware. Because Reputation Hurdle identifies and eradicates up to 80 percent of unwanted email, it also helps conserve valuable system resources.”
Together with the Message Server, RazorGate and RazorSafe appliances, Mirapoint offers enterprises a complete end to end secure messaging infrastructure.
Benefits of Mirapoint Reputation Hurdle
Mirapoint’s Reputation Hurdle identifies the good and bad senders at the network perimeter, granting optimal access to legitimate messages while blocking malicious email. Though a technology called Recurrent Pattern Detection, Reputation Hurdle identifies and separates good and bad senders and determines trust and threat levels. Sender reputations are constantly analyzed and updated in real time such that attacks from zombie armies are identified in just minutes from the outbreak. If there is suspicion that the message has malicious content, it is throttled down, quarantined or rejected offering the ultimate in flexibility. Once a message clears at the gate, it gets passed into the next line of defense where it will go through RazorGate’s antivirus and antispam scanning engines.
Additional benefits of the Mirapoint Reputation Hurdle include:
- IP address throttling
- Detection of zombie attacks within minutes
- Reduction of mail volume saving valuable bandwidth and backend filtering resources
- Monitoring of billions of messages per day to compute sender reputation scores
- Real-time adjustments to changing reputations
- Increases security
- Saves disk space and server capacity
Pricing and Availability
Reputation Hurdle will be available April 30, 2008 and is priced in a bundle with Rapid Antispam or Rapid Antivirus starting at $6/user.
RazorGate - Unparalleled Multi-Layered Protection
With the increasing security concerns of today, it is necessary to protect message networks from both internal and external threats such as viruses, spam and hacker attacks, while meeting the organization’s legal, liability and business continuity needs. Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliance delivers unparalleled multi-layered protection from spam, virus and hacker attacks. It provides real-time updates to reduce the window of vulnerability resulting in airtight security at the edge of the network. The appliance form factor makes it easy to deploy with minimal ongoing administration.
The RazorGate’s multi-layered security starts with Reputation Hurdle and 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, as they emerge providing up-to-the-minute protection.
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 120 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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