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Red Condor email security provider provides full service protection

mary | 24 August, 2007 13:43

While MTCO’s previous hosted anti-spam service was doing a basic job of filtering spam and fighting DoS (denial of service) attacks, new image-based spam was slipping through. This spam was choking their email delivery. Service interruptions would bring inbound email to a complete stop, then flood and overwhelm MTCO mail servers when service resumed. In addition, the inbound filter service provider didn’t offer outbound security, requiring a separate appliance-based vendor. That meant the added paperwork inherent in two suppliers, plus the extra effort and dual monitoring to eradicate spam emanating from zombie PCs. While spam statistics were available, they didn’t provide detailed data to help MTCO systems engineers diagnose and solve problems. MTCO found a lot of their time and resources were spent managing spam instead of providing more value for their customers. It was time for a change. MTCO turned to Red Condor as the email security provider to get them the full service they needed.

For MTCO, Red Condor stepped in and solved their immediate needs:

protecting and filtering both inbound and outbound email and simplifying the network
eliminating the email spooling problems that previously choked MTCO and providing seamless email service even when mail servers went down
providing more detailed spam reporting that included detailed message logs and sophisticated search tools for quick diagnosis – saving precious time and resources for MTCO’s tech support team
better spam filtering including the ability to block a campaign where spam was sent in attached documents like PDF and Excel 2007 files
giving end-users more value with daily email spam digests (which they can adjust to different intervals or turn off ), for a quick and easy look at screened mail

Products from Red Condor:

Message Assurance Gateway 2700 Appliance (Academic Pricing)

Message Assurance Gateway 3000 Appliance (Academic Pricing)

Message Assurance Gateway 4000 Appliance (Academic Pricing)