“A primary vehicle for spam today is the proliferation of ‘spam machines,’ also known as botnets or zombie armies,” Longo said. “Spammers are building botnets that take over personal computers on an undetected basis, and then use them to spew out malicious email and viruses. Botnets are a major contributor to the $50-billion annual worldwide problem associated with the 60-billion to 150-billion email spam messages sent each day.”

Red Condor has developed integrated inbound and outbound email filtering to identify and stop malicious email attacks, including those from computers seized by botnets. Owners of enterprise networks and Internet service providers can now receive capacity-based, simultaneous screening of inbound and outbound email traffic from one Red Condor Message Assurance Gateway (MAG) appliance.

This protection is enhanced by Red Condor’s Vx Technology™, the industry’s first premium network security solution that integrates a local network appliance with managed services for email security. This provides load sharing and the resilient deployment of resources to prevent spam attacks and messaging-born threats from overwhelming client networks and crippling productivity.

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About Red Condor

Red Condor is a managed service provider of highly resilient email security systems for businesses, government agencies and service providers. Red Condor’s email security eliminates spam, viruses, spyware, phishing schemes and other offensive content, with perimeter defense against denial-of-service and directory harvest attacks. Red Condor leverages up-to-the-minute security threat information from its worldwide sensor network, and then applies defensive measures in real time to protect the company’s client base. Red Condor’s revolutionary Vx Technology™ provides network-based load sharing and fail-over capabilities for customer appliances. The system’s design has built-in zero tolerance for lost email, resulting in a less than 0.01% false-positive rate while achieving long-term spam block rates greater than 98%. This next generation technology is backed by a 24x7 customer care center staffed by email security experts at Red Condor’s headquarters. For more information go to www.redcondor.com.