MessageDefense Launches with DefendMail

The secure messaging provider introduces their flagship offering.

(PRWEB) July 3, 2003 -- MessageDefense, a provider of managed secure messaging solutions announced the launch of the company with their flagship offering, DefendMail. The service based solution offers email SPAM and VIRUS blocking for businesses using an "Off-Net" strategy.

With analyst groups reporting exponential growth of the pest everyone refers to as SPAM over the next few years, MessageDefense is going after its share of the market. Citing productivity gains, reduction of Human Resource exposure and no need for hardware or software purchases, the company feels the DefendMail solution has a significant sweet spot among small to medium sized businesses.

The solution has been implemented as an enterprise solution many times reducing total message volume by 60-70 percent while experiencing near perfect accuracy. The Off-Net" protection, as MessageDefense calls it, stops malicious email before it gets to your companys infrastructure by intercepting the message, processing the message and forwarding the message on to your existing mail system. There is no hardware and software required and the implementation is completely guided by MessageDefense administrators. Best of all there is NO USE of internal resources to process the message before its fate is determined.

Additional benefits include redundancy of mail infrastructure, elimination of blacklist problems and a more secure perimeter. The dollars many experts figure virus remediation cost is nearly $10,000 per infection. The benefits in performing Anti-Virus activity "Off-Net" are clear. Email was used as an attack vector for 86% of the viruses that were released in 2002 according to a Virus Prevalence Survey. So the virus benefit of using two separate scanners and downloading signature updates every 15 minutes, in addition to global executable blocking rules provide the highest level of protection for DefendMail customers.

About MessageDefense

Founded in 2003, MessageDefense is the premier provider of email security solutions for businesses. The service-based approach to the delivery of email virus and SPAM blocking has claimed many loyal followers.

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