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Companies Are Sending Spam and Don't Even Know It

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 18:00 CDT

News Facts:

-- BorderWare Technologies today announced that its real-time, multi-application reputation service, BorderWare Security Network (BSN), reported that email traffic from individual organizations has over 80% of their sent mail sent from IP addresses outside of their domain. -- This means that legitimate organizations are being incorrectly labeled as spammers causing emails to be blocked unbeknownst to them. -- The BSN Portal tracks domain reputation in real time. Want to check your reputation? Enter your domain (ex. xxx.com) in the upper right corner of the screen. -- BSN also features a Global Threat Map and a Threat Dashboard that shows where the worst threats are coming from and features 'top 10 lists' including the worst offenders and top spammers.

Background for BSN:

-- BSN works by conducting ongoing, real-time reputation analysis of the content sent from IPs, domains and users across multiple applications -- email, web, IM and VoIP. -- As BSN detects potentially compromised or infected traffic -- based on more than 30 metrics established by BorderWare -- individual domain or user behaviors are flagged, graded and rejected, ensuring that legitimate traffic can be sent and received without delay while compromised traffic is rejected. -- Traditional reputation systems, focused primarily on email, simply base their reputation score on the traffic monitored from an IP address. However, many businesses and individuals today utilize service provider or hosted mail systems that share an IP address with many domains, which leads to an inaccurate assessment of their reputation. -- BorderWare also provides "Google-style" Alerts for BSN, a new proactive notification system that lets visitors register their IP addresses on the site and be notified if any issues are found by BSN that cause concern.

Quotes from Tim Leisman, CEO, BorderWare Technologies:

-- "Previous results from reputation services incorrectly identified enterprises as sending a large volume of spam with incorrect analysis based only on volume." -- "We've identified that over 80% of mail from enterprise domains does not actually come from the organization and most of this mail is spam. The real-time content inspection of BSN provides us with a much more detailed view of this traffic."

Please contact Beth O'Connell to arrange for further quotes regarding this announcement or to request an interview with a BorderWare executive.

Multimedia:

-- Download: traditional press release -- See BSN's Global Threat Map -- Check out a BSN Domain Reputation report -- See a snapshot of BSN's real-time Threat Dashboard

Relevant Links:

BSN Web Portal http://bsn.borderware.com

BorderWare

About BorderWare Security Network (BSN)

BorderWare Security Network (BSN) -- a cornerstone of the BorderWare Security Platform -- is the first and only service to analyze the reputation and behavior of IP addresses, domains and senders across Email, IM and Web -- immediately at the perimeter with a zero false-positive rate. BSN detects potentially compromised or infected traffic based on 30+ metrics from over 8,000 BorderWare customer systems by proactively gathering detailed data about attacks, supplementing industry standard data, providing information from over half a billion sources.

About BorderWare

BorderWare Technologies is a global vendor of messaging security, privacy and compliance solutions. BorderWare has been protecting enterprises of all sizes and governments worldwide for over 13 years against the risks and threats associated with today's converging Internet threat landscape across Email, IM, Web, VoIP and the network perimeter. BorderWare has developed partnerships and affiliations with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure, security and messaging including CommVault, Ericsson, F5 Networks, FaceTime Communications, Kaspersky Labs, LignUp, Marconi, McAfee, Mitel, Natural Convergence, PostX, PGP, RSA Security, Radware, snom technology, Sun Microsystems, SurfControl, Symantec, Ubiquity, Utimaco, Zfone. Thousands of customers worldwide have selected BorderWare for its superior security, high performance and lower total cost of ownership.

 Contact Information:BorderWareMarnie Middlehurstmmidlehurst@borderware.com(905) 804-1855 x361Lois Paul & PartnersBeth O'Connellbeth_oconnell@lpp.com(781) 782-5715

SOURCE: BorderWare




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