Red Condor’s Anti-Spam Appliance Receives “Stellar” Review

PRLog (Press Release) - Nov 10, 2008 -
Rohnert Park, Calif.  – In a recent product review of Red Condor’s Message Assurance Gateway (MAG) 2000 anti-spam network appliance, Roger Grimes, security advisor at InfoWorld magazine, stated that the MAG appliance was “easily the lowest maintenance of any anti-spam filter I’ve reviewed.” Grimes added that users looking for a low maintenance, easy to use anti-spam firewall “must try this product” and that Red Condor’s “anti-spam accuracy was stellar.”

Red Condor’s anti-spam appliances (http://www.redcondor.com/products/appliances.htm) provide enterprise-level email security for small to medium-sized businesses, universities, and internet service providers. Red Condor developed its anti-spam technology with three goals in mind: first, provide the highest performing spam filter on the planet; second, drive down customer’s operating costs by making the product easy to use, hands-free and fully managed; and third, provide resiliency and redundancy with a hybrid architecture that leverages in-the-cloud computing for load sharing, disaster recovery and failover.

At one point during the multi-month review period, Grimes called Red Condor to question the accuracy of the MAG2000 filter. He wrote, “The MAG 2000's anti-spam rate was so accurate that I called Red Condor to see if they were manually inspecting my mail to make sure the rates were highly accurate for the review. The office thought I was crazy. And I guess that pretty much sums up the MAG 2000's anti-spam effectiveness. It was so good I was accusing the vendor of cheating.”

“Red Condor provides exceptional performance and resiliency at 50% to 60% less cost than traditional, incumbent anti-spam companies,” said Nathan Strong, Director of Product Planning for Red Condor. “We accomplish this with our innovative Email DNA™ filter technology and our hybrid architecture that joins the local appliance to an on-demand, distributed-computing cloud of servers.  We have eliminated the management of the spam appliance from our customers’ to-do lists, as well as removed the infrastructure cost of multiple servers with our hybrid Vx Technology™. We certainly appreciate the InfoWorld review and look forward to additional opportunities to demonstrate that not all anti-spam technologies are built alike.”

“The Red Condor appliance has reduced spam to a ‘non-issue’ level and greatly reduced the time needed to manage a filtering product,” commented Jason Stokes, network analyst at Jefferson College. “Deployment was fast; the appliance has performed as promised with very high block rates with few false positives, and with the integrated disaster recovery and backup capabilities, we are much more at ease with our email security.”

Red Condor’s industry leading performance, fully managed service, and Vx Technology hybrid architecture are built into every appliance – ideal for both small businesses and large scale ISPs looking to reduce costs and increase staff efficiency.

The entire InfoWorld review titled “Red Condor: A Minimalist Spam Appliance,” can be accessed online at http://weblog.infoworld.com/securityadviser/archives/2008...

About Red Condor
Red Condor is revolutionizing spam fighting technology. Red Condor’s highly accurate Email DNA™ filter, hybrid architecture Vx Technology™, and fully managed appliances lead to a dramatic reduction in the cost of owning a premium spam filter. With solutions for small business, as well as ISPs with millions of email inboxes, Red Condor has a cost effective, time saving solution that is rapidly gaining market share. The system’s design has built-in zero tolerance for lost email, and a near zero false-positive rate while achieving long-term spam block rates greater than 99%. This next generation technology is backed by a 24x7 customer care center staffed by email security experts at Red Condor’s headquarters. For more information, visit http://www.redcondor.com.