Consider the following points:

· On average, spam costs US companies $1934 per user every year.

· 66% of all internet-based email is spam.

· Each virus outbreak costs US companies an average of $10,000.

· Email-borne viruses comprised 86% of all viruses discovered last year.

· Over 90% of US companies surveyed reported a virus outbreak in the previous year.

MessageDefense is determined to help companies cope with these rapidly growing problems. Our premier spam and virus-filtering service, DefendMail, returns control of your messaging infrastructure to you. With DefendMail there is no hardware to purchase and support and no software to install and configure. DefendMail is a managed service that frees you to focus on your business and not irrelevant and potentially dangerous emails. DefendMail utilizes the latest technology to protect your network from the rising costs of both spam and email-borne viruses. Our solutions fit any size organization and utilize an adaptive-learning engine to identify spam messages coupled with the industry-leading virus protection to ensure that DefendMail is the best possible solution for every environment.

Spam Filtering

DefendMail spam filtering technology is simply the best available. There is no software to configure and update, no hardware to install and maintain. Spam is filtered using an adaptive-learning engine, a weighted characteristic scoring system, and thousands of tests per message. All of this happens before the message reaches your infrastructure. DefendMail provides the highest accuracy rate available and integrates with any email system.

Virus Filtering

Proper virus-filtering requires a multi-vendor, multi-tiered approach. Virus filtering should be performed at the email gateway, server, and desktop level using different scan engines to ensure the best chance of isolating a malicious programs. DefendMail utilizes the industry-leading anti-virus engines to check each and every piece of email. Additionally, our policy-based content inspection engine helps isolate unknown and new viruses. DefendMail offers a 100% virus-free guarantee when our recommended policy is enforce

How Does It Work?

The answer to that is simple…..extremely well. Email is delivered to our message content servers where it is checked using our spam and virus-filtering engines. If the email is valid, it is delivered to your existing email infrastructure. There are several configurable quarantine options including a web-based portal that allows reporting, quarantine release, monitoring, support, and learning messages into our adaptive learning engine. DefendMail benefits include cost and productivity savings, decreased civil liability, no software/hardware to purchase and configure, experienced support staff, customer portal, and much more.