The Scripps Research Institute Fights Spam with Roaring Penguin Softwares CanIt-PRO

Researchers get relief from spam, ultimate control over own e-mail with flexible, web-accessible anti-spam solution.

(PRWEB) August 17, 2004 -- The Scripps Research Institute is fighting spam with Roaring Penguin Softwares CanIt-PRO. CanIt-PRO anti-spam software now provides the institutes 3,000 staff with relief from e-mail spam across two locations in California and Florida.

Bill Bauer, Network Manager, Research Computing at Scripps Research, said that CanIt-PRO was the best of multiple products that Scripps Research evaluated. CanIt-PRO provided us the best product fit out-of-the-box, but the flexibility to customize it is an added bonus. The fact that it is a UNIX-based product written around Sendmail was also an added selling point. This design permits CanIt-PRO to run on our mail relays, protecting any internal mail systems regardless of platform or mail transport."

Prior to using CanIt-PRO, Scripps Researchs IT department was manually maintaining a list of banned domains and senders. That became unmanageable due to the growing volume of complaints received from employees and the changing tactics of spammers.

Scripps Research chose CanIt-PRO specifically for its exceptional flexibility. Bauer explained, We liked CanIt-PRO for its user-level controls, granular configurability, Bayesian analysis and integrated web interface. The level of control and configurability of the Bayesian engine is particularly useful at Scripps Research, where many users receive unusual e-mail due to the nature of their research. We were also pleased that the solution is not a black box, but yet it is an all-in-one package."

Michael Denisevich, Director of Research Computing at Scripps Research, added, Roaring Penguin Software has earned a solid reputation, and their support for CanIt-PRO has been outstanding, both during the evaluation and today after the purchase. We are extremely happy with the product and with Roaring Penguin, both of which have been responsive to our needs."

At Scripps Research, CanIt-PRO runs in a cluster on three Intel servers, each with dual 3.06 GHz Xeon CPUs, running Solaris x86. The institute also uses the Clam AntiVirus solution that is bundled with CanIt-PRO. Bauer adds, ClamAVs performance is excellent and has no discernible impact on the systems."

With CanIt-PRO, the institute establishes global e-mail policies for the entire organization and then provides individual end-users with the ability to choose whether their e-mail is filtered, and how. Through CanIt-PROs end-user interface, e-mail users may opt in or out of mail filtering and choose a particular level of filtering that best suits their needs. More advanced users also have access to an advanced interface that allows them to manage their own Spam Traps, whitelists and blacklists.

CanIt products offer the industry's most complete and flexible anti-spam and anti-virus solutions. They can be deployed in any enterprise e-mail environment, including on all Linux and UNIX servers. As a stand-alone gateway appliance, CanIt can protect e-mail environments running non-UNIX servers, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and Novell Groupwise. A trial version of CanIt or CanIt-PRO can be obtained at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/anti_spam/get_canit_request.php

About Roaring Penguin
Founded in 1999, Roaring Penguin Software Inc., specializes in e-mail filtering. Since 2000, the company has focused on fighting spam at the mail server, with the acclaimed MIMEDefang and CanIt product lines. Today, Roaring Penguin develops, deploys and supports its spam- and virus-fighting products for customers that include campuses, ISPs, web hosts, government offices and large enterprises. For more information visit www.roaringpenguin.com.

About The Scripps Research Institute
The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, is one of the world's largest, private, non-profit biomedical research organizations. It stands at the forefront of basic biomedical science that seeks to comprehend the most fundamental processes of life. Scripps Research is internationally recognized for its research into immunology, molecular and cellular biology, chemistry, neurosciences, autoimmune, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases, and synthetic vaccine development. For more information visit http://www.scripps.edu.