Cloudmark Authority, the Award-Winning Enterprise Anti-Spam Solution Proves Your Corporation Can Be Spam-Free in Six Minutes
Cloudmark Sets a New Standard for Enterprise Anti-Spam Requirements in Front of Live Audience
Scottsdale, AZ. — Feb 17, 2003 — Today at the 13th annual DEMO 2003 conference, Cloudmark, the company that stops spam before it costs you money proves in a six-minute live demonstration that your company can be spam-free with Authority, its award-winning Enterprise anti-spam solution. Authority sets a new standard for enterprise anti-spam products by delivering the highest accuracy with low false positives *and* lowest total cost of ownership. Cloudmark CEO, Karl Jacob installs and runs Authority in front of a live audience demonstrating it does not require additional hardware, firewall configurations or costly professional services like competing products. Available for Windows, UNIX and Linux, the solution installs at the gateway on existing hardware and integrates with existing email infrastructure immediately preventing spam from entering your network and saving your company money.
"Authority uses our first ever spamDNA technology to deliver superior accuracy with virtually zero false criticals," says Karl Jacob, Cloudmark CEO. "Beyond that, today's corporations expect a great product with low maintenance, easy integration and most of all low total cost of ownership. By showing we can install and run Authority in under six minutes we are proving how easy it is for corporations to be spam free."
This is all possible because Authority evolves spamDNA from SpamNet, the first and largest spamfighting community in the world with over 300,000 members.
The DNA of Spam
Spammers mutate message structure to avoid detection just like genes in DNA can be mutated. Just as scientists predict whether someone will have a particular disease by looking for specific gene mutations, Authority predicts whether a message is spam by looking for specific mutations in message structure called spamGenes. Authority uses spamDNA, a collection of spamGenes, to feed its Bayesian classifier which learns how to stop spam more effectively. Finally, Cloudmark improves Authority's effectiveness by constantly evolving the spamDNA it gets from Cloudmark SpamNet, the largest spamfighting community in the world now with nearly 300,000 users and the largest database of spam.
Cloudmark Delivers on Enterprise Requirements:
- Plugs into existing hardware and software. Authority seamlessly integrates into existing email infrastructure which the IT staff already knows how to configure and operate, so it can be installed faster, more cheaply and requires less ongoing administration. Authority runs in memory and only impacts the message transfer agent (MTA) by 5-10 percent; while other anti-spam products impact the MTA more than 40 percent requiring additional hardware, configuration and support.
- Limit dependence on external network resources. Authority operates without a connection to Cloudmark. Other solutions require a constant connection to external servers which means reconfiguring firewalls in order to update their rules every minute and reactively handle new spam.
- Low maintenance due to limited personnel budget. Authority only needs updates every 30-60 days. Other reactive solutions require daily "tweaking" by IT staff to maintain effectiveness.
- Integrity of corporate security is maintained. Authority does not compromise security because e-mail never leaves your corporation. Other solutions send data and email outside your corporate firewall.
- Near-zero false positives. Authority's balanced approach uses knowledge about legitimate messages and spam to produce the most accurate results. Other solutions only look for spam.
- Fine grain control and flexibility for IT managers. Authority generates a confidence level between 0-100 percent on each spam message. This enables the IT manager to set a site policy that triggers what happens to each message based on how confident Authority is that it's spam. Other solutions only allow a "spam" or "not spam" determination which generate false positives and force continual detained message review by IT staff or employees. Authority runs on UNIX and Windows.
- Authority learns and adapts to improve itself over time. Cloudmark's Bayesian Classifier learns from spamDNA generated by SpamNet to constantly improve itself and free up the IT administrators valuable time.
- Proven Return on Investment (ROI). Cloudmark's spam-free guarantee offers 30 days to witness a ROI before making a commitment. Competitive products require up-front fees or expensive deployment of additional machines.
Pricing and Availability
Cloudmark Authority is currently available on Unix and Windows. To check out the spam-free guarantee, 30-day trial and witness Authority stopping spam at your gateway, go to www.cloudmark.com. People can also take advantage of Cloudmark's cost saving calculator on the site. It is estimated that a typical employee will receive ten spam messages per day, which would cost corporations $86 per employee, per year in lost productivity. This means a company with 10,000 employees can save over two million dollars a year with Authority deployed to equal immediate ROI. In addition, Cloudmark Authority protects your company against liability and morale issues generated by unwanted spam, often a more important ROI.
In addition, the beta version of SpamNet, the first, easy-to-use Microsoft® Outlook® add-in that stops spam immediately is available for free from the Cloudmark web site at www.cloudmark.com/SpamNet.
About DEMO 2003
The annual DEMO and DEMOmobile conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected by executive producer Chris Shipley from across the spectrum of the personal technology marketplace. Top executives from the leading hardware and software technology companies, venture capitalists, journalists from key industry publications and industry analysts attend the DEMO and DEMOmobile conferences to preview the most promising products and technologies for the coming year. DEMO is held in February each year and features approximately 60 new companies, products and technologies. DEMOmobile is held each fall and features approximately 35 new mobile technologies. For more information, visit http://www.idgef.com/.
About Cloudmark
Cloudmark protects 2 billion global subscribers daily from an explosion in messaging abuses across more operator networks than anyone else. Only Cloudmark defends the world’s largest Mobile, Fixed and Social Media Providers, including AT&T, Comcast, MySpace, NTT, Swisscom and Time Warner Cable, with scalable and accurate protection against the widest range of existing and emerging messaging threats.