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Finjan Software Selects
Mailshell to Provide Advanced Spam Fighting Tools For Finjan's
Vital Security Solution
Integrated Product Offering Combines SpamCatcher With
SurfinGate for E-Mail To Increase Productivity and Ensure
E-mail Remains Valuable Communications Tool
SAN JOSE, CA, and SANTA CLARA, CA - April
14, 2003 - Finjan Software, the leading provider of proactive
security solutions for global companies, and Mailshell,
creator of the easiest and most accurate solution to spam,
today announced the integration of Mailshell's SpamCatcher(TM)
engine into Finjan's best-of-breed Vital Security(TM) solution,
SurfinGate® for E-mail.
The partnership will provide Finjan customers
with an additional anti-spam defense that complements Finjan's
existing set of anti-spam features available in its SurfinGate
for E-mail solution. With the cost of fighting spam predicted
by Ferris Research to hit $10 billion in 2003, this agreement
provides global organizations with a security and content
management tool that increases worker productivity and improves
network bandwidth while drastically cutting the costs associated
with the eradication of spam and the security threats it
can bring into the corporate environment.
"With the proliferation of undesired content
and spam starting to represent as much as 50 percent of
all messages in a given corporate in-box, the business value
of e-mail communications is threatened," said Shlomo Touboul,
Finjan Software's founder and CEO. "Our partnership with
Mailshell and its industry recognized anti-spam management
solution addresses this growing business concern and is
part of Finjan's ongoing strategy to provide innovative
content security and management applications to our customers."
According to IDC, spam volume is up 28 percent
to 870 billion messages in North America alone, with that
figure expected to surpass 1 trillion by the end of 2003.
This represents a growing challenge for organizations as
they seek to manage this onslaught and balance communication
needs with organizational productivity. The Finjan-Mailshell
partnership addresses this challenge by arming organizations
with a robust solution that proactively filters unwanted
emails, ensuring that e-mail continues to be a productive
and viable communications tool.
"Blocking spam from their corporate networks
is among IT directors' top priorities for 2003," said Tonny
Yu, founder and CEO of Mailshell. "Finjan is recognized
as one of the leading proactive content security platform
providers and an ideal partner for Mailshell. We expect
customers to benefit tremendously from the integration of
these two solutions, arming them with superior integrated
content security."
With products and services that exceed the
rudimentary level of defense typically offered by reactive
anti-virus software solutions, Finjan's Vital Security solutions
protect mission critical information and systems from the
most malicious Internet attacks that occur at the desktop
and gateway levels. The most robust platform of its kind,
Finjan's Vital Security provides a best-of-breed, integrated
content security offering that proactively responds to changing,
yet-to-be-created Internet security threats. Armed with
Vital Security, more than 1,400 corporations and 1.8 million
end-users can close their Window of Vulnerability(TM) for
potential attacks by almost 100% by continually monitoring,
analyzing and reporting active content entering the network.
Mailshell SpamCatcher engine integrates seamlessly
into Finjan's Vital Security Solution platform. SpamCatcher
uses more than a thousand spam-blocking rules including
pattern matches, heuristic functions, proprietary and third-party
databases. Complex algorithms are applied to compute the
probability that each piece of e-mail is spam. SpamCatcher
also creates a fingerprint ID for every e-mail message and
compares it to existing fingerprints in its databases in
order to continuously analyze new spam, create new rules,
and adjust the weighting of existing rules. Because the
nature of spam constantly changes, customers can opt to
receive scheduled or real-time rules updates.
About Finjan
Finjan Software is the leading provider of proactive content
security solutions to global organizations. Exceeding the
preliminary level of defense typically offered by reactive
anti-virus software solutions, Finjan's Vital Security family
of products proactively responds to changing, yet-to-be-created
Internet security threats, creating a network security solution
that closes the Window of Vulnerability. Recognized by analyst
firm IDC as the leader in the worldwide malicious mobile
code security market, Finjan's robust and scalable network
security products are protecting the mission critical content
of more than one million end-users. Based in Silicon Valley,
Finjan distributes its products directly and through a growing
reseller and channel base. For more information, visit http://www.finjan.com.
About Mailshell
Mailshell is the creator of SpamCatcher, the easiest solution
to spam. The company's products include anti-spam software
developers' tools and a suite of enterprise and personal
anti-spam products. Mailshell recently earned an "Editor's
Choice" award in PC Magazine's review of spam filters, and
has been dubbed "priceless" by Forbes magazine, "excellent"
by the Associated Press and "easy to use" by CNET. Mailshell
is based in Santa Clara, CA, with an additional office in
San Francisco. For more information visit http://www.mailshell.com.
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Contact:
Louis Cheng, Finjan Software, (408) 487-8371, louis@finjan.com
Chana Snyder, Sterling Hager, Inc., (617) 926-6665, ext. 283, csnyder@sterlinghager.com
Stefan Pollack, The Pollack PR Marketing Group, (310)
556-4443, spollack@ppmgcorp.com
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PC Magazine—Editor's Choice
"Mailshell is priceless."
"Mailshell is easy to use."
One of "the best ways to prevent
spam"
"Mailshell is excellent."
"Mailshell is worth its cost."
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