The field proven, cost-effective MailWasher® Server email management and security solution significantly lowers IT total cost of ownership and improves employee productivity.

Firetrust Limited, provider of award-winning anti-spam and email security solutions, today announced it is now shipping MailWasher® Server, a highly-effective email management and security solution for small to mid-sized businesses and large enterprises. MailWasher® Server adopts a multi-layered approach to identifying spam messages before unwanted or malicious emails ever enter an organization's network. MailWasher® Server benefits an entire organization by reducing the burden on IT administrators, giving employees better control, increasing worker productivity, and most importantly, cutting costs.

"For the majority of cyber attacks, the point of entry into a company's network is through employee emails, making email management and security a top priority for IT administrators," said Nick Bolton, CEO of Firetrust. "A key benefit to MailWasher® Server is that it sits at the gateway allowing IT administrators the ability to stop unwanted spam and malicious emails from ever entering a company's network, while ensuring that important emails are never lost. In addition to a secure network, MailWasher® Server helps increase employee productivity, which improves a company's bottom line."

IDC issued a report in April 2004 revealing that the cost to an average company with 5,000 email users and no anti-spam solution was more than $4.1 million annually. By contrast, companies of the same size with an anti-spam solution deployed had a cost savings of $796,000, clearly pointing to the importance of deploying an effective anti-spam and email management solution.

MailWasher® Server is an effective enterprise-wide system for email security management. Through its central console and policy manager, IT administrators easily manage all incoming spam and are free from the time-consuming, tedious task of scanning and deleting unwanted and potentially harmful emails; and employees no longer waste valuable time sifting through large amounts of spam just to get to important emails.

MailWasher® Server is not only easy and quick to deploy, it also scales exceedingly well and integrates seamlessly into an existing email infrastructure, making total cost of ownership extremely low. MailWasher® Server delivers a proven enterprise-level anti-spam and email management solution that requires no additional IT resources to maintain.

MAILWASHER® SERVER FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Statistical Content Analysis Filtering: Through Bayesian and lexical analysis, it accurately identifies and removes spam from incoming messages, keeping false positive occurrences to a minimum. Allows user to customize by selecting between five levels of sensitivity, from conservative to aggressive.

Connection Filtering/SMTP Relay: Filters incoming SMTP server's IP address to ensure incoming mail is legitimate. Specifically, it protects against DNSBL's (Domain Name Server-based blacklists), which are open-relay servers that spammers hijack and use to send large amounts of spam to third parties. By inspecting an incoming SMTP server's IP address, MailWasher® Server only allows email from non-blacklisted senders to go through.

Policy Enforcement: Allows IT administrators to define email policy rules and enforce employee compliance with the ability to monitor policy violations.

Blacklists & Whitelists: IT administrators have the ability to set and control blacklists and whitelists, and through the MailWasher® online portal, employees can customize and set up their own blackists and whitelists.

Online User Portal: MailWasher® Server adopts total Web management, allowing employees and IT administrators to effortlessly manage their email. By allowing employees controlled access to email management capabilites, it frees up IT resources, saving time and money. Once policies are set, employees have access through the MailWasher® online user portal, where they can independently review and manage their own spam messages.

Flexibility: With MailWasher® Server, IT administrators have access to real-time reporting capabilities, remote management access for when they are out of the office, and the flexibility and control over what types of emails employees can retrieve or not. For example, an email marked as financial spam could be available for retrieval if the IT manager deemed those types of emails as acceptable. But a pharmaceutical email may be tagged by an IT manager as not available for retrieval by employees.

FirstAlert!™: Adding to MailWasher® Server's comprehensive, multi-layered approach, MailWasher® Server uses real-time data from FirstAlert!™, a global spam reporting database and community, which contains verified spam messages from thousands of people worldwide reporting spam in real time. For accuracy, Firetrust ensures that all messages submitted are indeed spam through a verification process by a FirstAlert!™ Administrator. Spam messages are digitally fingerprinted and any email or mutations of an email that match the fingerprint are then instantly eliminated, protecting email inboxes. FirstAlert!™ also helps train and keep the Bayesian engine up to date.

Easy Installation: Installation and deployment is simple using the MailWasher® Server configuration wizard, and it requires no dedicated server, no modification to existing network infrastructures and no reconfiguration of individual client workstations. IT administrators can have MailWasher® Server up and running within an hour or less.

Streamlined Scalability: Whether a business has 10 employees or 10,000, MailWasher® Server scales easily without slowing the network or compromising servers.

Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): MailWasher® Server integrates seamlessly into the existing email infrastructure, is easy to maintain and requires no additional IT staff to manage.

Complete Privacy: Emails never pass through the Firetrust servers, and quarantined emails are stored only on an organization's mail server.

System Requirements, Availability and Pricing
MailWasher® Server is available for Windows, Solaris and Linux environments. MailWasher® Server is now shipping and available directly from Firetrust (www.firetrust.com). Later this year, MailWasher® Server will also be sold through the Firetrust Value-Added Reseller (VAR) Partner Program. Pricing is based is volume based, ranging from US$7.00 to $29.00 per seat. For an exact quote, contact Firetrust at mwserver@firetrust.com.

About Firetrust Limited
Established in 2000, Firetrust provides world-class email security products for business and home users. Firetrust delivers solutions across the spectrum of inbox protection, including MailWasher® Pro for unsolicited commercial email (spam) and Benign® for neutralizing harmful email that can contain viruses, worms, scripts and Web bugs. The company is privately held and headquartered in Christchurch, New Zealand. To date MailWasher® has had more than 4 million downloads. For more information, please visit www.firetrust.com.

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