Work Smarter, Not Harder
CipherTrust's IronMail has helped some of the largest enterprises in the world
stem the flood of spam to their end users, as well as address a host of other e-mail
threats. IronMail's unique Spam Profiler tool provides maximum effectiveness by
scrutinizing thousands of characteristics of every message to determine a spam score.
But the challenges for enterprises today do not stop at identifying and blocking
spam. With spam volumes continuing to increase at an incredible rate, the new challenge
is to more efficiently handle the huge volumes of mail, without increasing costs.
The massive growth in spam in recent years is expected to continue exponentially
well into the future. According to Radicati Group research, the average corporate
e-mail user sends 34 e-mails and receives 99 e-mails every day, a 53% increase over
numbers from just one year ago. E-Marketer expects the total volume of e-mail sent
in 2004 to exceed two trillion messages, with steady growth rates of 13 to 15 percent
annually through 2007. With this sort of massive e-mail volume traveling across
the Internet and the reality that a vast majority is undesired, the need for accurate
and thorough spam protection has never been greater.
To handle the additional traffic, you could add more mail servers, or you could
become smarter about how you utilize the equipment you already have, and double
your return on investment. IronMail's Connection Control is the first and only offering
to combine network-based traffic shaping and reputation services to elegantly block
e-mail from senders who consistently send spam. Reputation servers and traffic shaping
are both emerging technologies in the fight against spam, and IronMail is the first
product to effectively integrate them to fight spam and stop e-mail threats. And,
Connection Control even offers an opportunity for a little payback against spammers.
Slam the Spammer
Connection Control takes the fight to the spammers by forcing them to spend extra
time and money to send spam. By removing the financial incentive of sending spam,
IronMail forces spammers to rethink their approach or halt operations altogether.
When dealing with spam assaults on their servers, network administrators can choose
whether to take an offensive or defensive approach:
- Tough Defense - In defense mode, Connection Control will simply not accept
messages from IP addresses flagged as violators for the designated time interval.
This vastly reduces the number of messages requiring scanning, which lowers
the cost of spam defense for the customer.
- Aggressive Offense - In offense mode, Connection Control turns the tables
on spammers by accepting a connection, but slowing the flow of e-mail to a handful
of messages per hour. This forces the spammer to expend resources despite the
message having no chance of success. In this mode, Connection Control makes
domains protected by IronMail very unprofitable targets for spammers.
Innovation from the Leader in Messaging Security
Connection Control features several proprietary technologies working together
to help IronMail provide the fastest throughput in the industry:
- Dynamic Connection Rejection - Limits the number of messages that reach
IronMail and rejects the resources available to the offending IP address.
- Rejection Intervals - By relying on data gathered by the IronMail Global
Network, CipherTrust research has determined the optimal intervals to reject
and allow connections.
- Anomaly Detection Engine - Examines and controls overall traffic flow for
IronMail to identify threats.
- Threat Response Updates - the IronMail Global Network comprises over 2500
IronMail units in the field. The system provides data and updates to IronMail
units as needed.
- TrustedSource? - CipherTrust's reputation service maintains data on millions
of e-mail senders globally and provides real-time information to IronMail appliances
about a sender's e-mail sending behavior.
Proven in the Field
Currently in use at enterprises such as Cox Communications, Inc. (NYSE: COX),
Connection Control dynamically rejects upwards of 50 percent of connection attempts
from known spammers with dramatic results. But don't just take our word for it.
Franklin Warlick, Cox Communications' messaging systems administrator, saw instant
results when he installed Connection Control on Cox's IronMail units, which protect
approximately 60,000 inboxes. "CipherTrust's Connection Control saved us valuable
time and resources when we really needed them. This new technology in IronMail allows
us to laser in on the worst offenders, and reject their spamming attempts at the
network edge. With Connection Control, Cox Communications was able to reject 90,000
spam messages an hour immediately, giving us great bang for the buck from a product
that already paid for itself many times over."
Take the Next Step
Learn more about how IronMail helps organizations stop the spam flood and fight
back against spammers by visiting www.ciphertrust.com or requesting CipherTrust's
free whitepaper, "Stopping the Spam Flood with IronMail Connection Control."
