PerfectMail

The Spam Problem

Spam and spam related malware pose a significant risk and cost to business. There are three categories for which spam poses a threat to your organization -- Time, Risk and Resources:

  • Time - Spam wastes one of your company's most precious resources - your staff's time
  • Risk - Spam and malware carried by spam puts your organization at risk
  • Resources - E-mail resources are very expensive. Spam chokes up these resources forcing you to spend money on needlessly increasing e-mail and network infrastructure

The Spam answer? Implement PerfectMail the innovative, next-generation anti-spam solution, available as either a physical or virtual appliance.

My Anti-spam Solution is 95% Accurate - Should I Switch to PerfectMail?

In a word - yes, and here's why... A busy mail server could receive 50,000 to 500,000 connection attempts per day. If you settle for a less accurate filter, you give up the benefits you expected to receive when you purchased your anti-spam solution. The result:

  • A 5% increase in filter accuracy will reduce the number of messages your e-mail server will handle by 2,500 to 25,000 messages per day
  • Since spam makes up 75% to 90% of all e-mail traffic, that's 2,250 to 22,500 additional spam messages per day that your users must review if your anti-spam solution is only 95% accurate
  • These additional messages waste time, introduce risk and increase load on e-mail servers and network resources

The result? Improving filter accuracy from 95% to 99.9% with PerfectMail will have a dramatic impact on the productivity, safety and reliability of your e-mail infrastructure.

Why is PerfectMail so Effective?

There are two general strategies in use today for blocking spam; Spam Signatures and Bayesian filters. Neither is especially effective and both are easily defeated by persistent spammers. The result is that Spam Signatures or Bayesian filter based anti-spam products are hard pressed to achieve better than 95% accuracy.

PerfectMail's key difference is the inclusion of a sophisticated reputation engine that forms the core of its filter strategy. In a nutshell, PerfectMail's reputation engine learns everything about your e-mail traffic including; your protected users, their regular e-mail peers, legitimate mail servers, spam e-mail servers, etc. The result is that PerfectMail overcomes the problems associated with Spam Signature and Bayesian filter engines because PerfectMail:

  • Ensures that messages between e-mail peers is always correctly handled (so false positives never occur)
  • Learns by watching e-mail flows so users don't need to spend time training and tuning the filter
  • Gets more accurate as it handles more e-mail
  • Self tunes by watching for changes in the strategies used by spammers
  • Is not reliant on one key test (such as Bayesian filters or Spam Signatures) so it is very hard to sneak spam through the filter
  • Watches for repeat traffic from inbound only senders - so newsletters are not blocked as spam

As a result, PerfectMail typically achieves better than 99.9% accuracy. Even better, most customers experience false positive levels that are well below one message per 100,000 connections. .

PerfectMail Features & Benefits

Effectiveness

  • Better than 99.9% accuracy
  • Typical false positive rate is usually below 1:100,000 connections
  • Uncertainty (tagged messages) typically < 1% of all connections
  • Reduces e-mail server load by 75%-95+%
  • Equally effective on industrial and one-time spam sources
  • Image Spam recognition module blocks spam in images
  • No desktop or server software to install
  • Self training and self tuning. There is no need to train or tune the filter

Licensing

  • Easily protects up to 50-5,000+ users depending on hardware used
  • Protect up to 100-2,000+ domains at no additional charge
  • Antivirus software protects against viruses, worms, Phishing scams and other threats
  • Low cost maintenance options ensure your product remains protected and effective
  • Built in, short term, E-mail Archive included at no additional cost

Capacity

  • Easily supports 50-5,000+ active users depending on hardware
  • E-mail activity history retained for up to 3 months dependign on available disk capacity
  • Easily handles 40,000+ connections/hour or 2,500,000+ messages/day

Security

  • Automatic recognition of legitimate mail peers means no false positives
  • Inbound and outbound antivirus protection
  • Next generation antispam protection
  • Safely removes most fraudulent Phishing messages
  • Blocks dangerous file attachments (e.g.: .com, .bat, .vbs, etc.)
  • Virus signatures updated automatically
  • PerfectMail updates automatically pushed to your appliance
  • Built in firewall means that you can safely deploy PerfectMail on the Internet

Management

  • Query the E-mail Archive for activity by time, domain, user or peer
  • Full e-mail message review and resend capability
  • Simple to use Web based administrator interface
  • First level help desk solves most problems in just a few mouse clicks
  • No Mail Server or desktop software to install
  • Appliance can be configured and in service in under 30 minutes
  • Easily fits within most standard e-mail architectures

Contact Alliance Technologies today to find out more about Perfect Mail.