NEWS FACTS
- Dangerous viruses continue to proliferate with new insidious tactics employed to penetrate networks. Increasingly, viruses are programmed to wreak havoc and destruction, assume identity, and defraud the public. New methods of delivery are successfully eluding network administrators—rendering viruses even more threatening than in the past.
- A typical virus outbreak averages $300 per desktop in IT clean-up costs alone.
- IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters™ respond much faster than traditional anti-virus technology – from 2-64 hours in advance of the first anti-virus vendors. IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters average 13 hours of added protection during the window of high vulnerability, which occurs between the time a virus is first detected and anti-virus signatures are released.
- IronPort® has begun publicly posting information where anyone can see the latest outbreaks and IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters’ response times (relative to the largest anti-virus vendors). To view the 20 most recent major outbreaks, see www.ironport.com/toc/.
- IronPort automatically activates user quarantines at pre-set threat levels and alerts customers at the very first sign of a virus outbreak.
- IronPort customers, prospects, media and the general public can register to receive email alerts at the first sign of an outbreak. Registration is available at www.ironport.com/outbreak_alerts/.
- IronPort’s enterprise email and Web security customers harness the power of SenderBase® through IronPort Reputation Filters™, IronPort Web Reputation™ technology, and the SenderBase Reputation Score (SBRS) — which boils down SenderBase data into a single score, indicating the threat level for each incoming message. SenderBase data also powers IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters, a preventive security service that protects customers from viruses – hours before anti-virus vendors publish virus signatures.
- SenderBase collects data from more than ten times the networks of competing monitoring systems, with data on more than 25 percent of the world’s email and Web traffic. This volume provides a very statistically significant sample size, resulting in immediate and accurate detection of even low volume mail senders. A highly diverse group of over 100,000 organizations, including the largest networks in the world, contribute information to SenderBase on a remarkable five billion messages per day. The SenderBase Network gives system administrators unprecedented real-time visibility into security threats from around the world.
PRE-APPROVED QUOTES
“IronPort has been preventing virus outbreaks with dramatic results since we invented IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters in 2004. Our public website exposes the tremendous increase in protection that IronPort customers enjoy, even in evermore threatening email and Internet environments, that seem to nurture new inimical and criminal types of viruses every week,” said David Mayer, Product Manager at IronPort. “The public site can also serve as a source of data and reference for press, researchers or anyone interested in an objective view of the abounding threat to the world’s cyber communications.”
MULTIMEDIA LINKS
IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters
www.ironport.com/technology/ironport_virus_outbreak_filters.htmlSign up for IronPort Virus Outbreak Alerts
www.ironport.com/outbreak_alerts/IronPort Threat Operations Center, with Viruses History Information
http://www.ironport.com/toc/IronPort SenderBase Network
www.ironport.com/technology/ironport_senderbase_network.htmlIronPort Innovation Timeline
www.ironport.com/technology/ironport_innovations.htmlAbout IronPort Systems
IronPort Systems is the leading email security provider for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. The company has developed a family of email security appliances, the IronPort C-Series™, that offer breakthrough performance, unprecedented ease of use and reduced total cost of ownership. IronPort is driving new standards and providing innovative products for those faced with the monumental task of managing, protecting, and growing mission-critical email systems. For more information on IronPort products and services, visit:
http://www.ironport.com.
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