Quinnipiac University Deploys Roaring Penguin Software’s CanIt-PRO Anti-Spam Solution

Ottawa, Ontario (PRWEB) October 12, 2004

Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, has responded to its e-mail users’ call for relief from spam while also protecting its systems from viruses, with Roaring Penguin Software’s CanIt Appliance. CanIt-PRO is stopping spam and viruses before they reach Quinnipiac’s Exchange mail servers or client machines.

Edward T. Keegan, Quinnipiac’s Director, Systems Technology and Planning, said, “Roaring Penguin’s CanIt-PRO was recommended to us by other campuses in the New England area. We evaluated the product and it met all our criteria. We are very pleased with the results.”

John Scott, Project Manager for the anti-spam and anti-virus project at Quinnipiac, added, “We needed an edge appliance to stop and hold suspect mail without interacting with our Exchange servers – we wanted that traffic off of our network entirely. In addition, however, we also wanted to give our users the opportunity to manage that e-mail, view messages in their Spam Traps, and approve or reject those messages. With CanIt-PRO on the appliance, we achieved all our goals.”

The university deployed CanIt-PRO in a default opt-out state and introduced it to various groups of users over time. Faculty receiving as many as 100 spam messages a week were some of the first to be invited to opt-in to protection from CanIt-PRO. Quinnipiac’s IT team is also using the Clam AntiVirus software that is bundled with CanIt-PRO, and has configured the solution to scan for viruses and particular mail attachments before filtering for spam.

CanIt-PRO is ideal for campuses, ISPs and large organizations where global filtering policies must be balanced with individuals’ ability to have the final decision over what is and is not spam. 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. The company focuses 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 http://www.roaringpenguin.com.

About Quinnipiac University

Quinnipiac University, founded in 1929, is a private, co-educational, non-sectarian institution of higher education. Quinnipiac's mission is to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for the intellectual and personal growth of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students. The university offers broadly based undergraduate programs together with graduate programs in selected professional fields. For more information visit http://www.quinnipiac.edu.

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