Anti Spam Filtering

Advanced Anti-Spam / Anti-Virus Email Defense system utilizes a combination of hardware firewalls from MailFoundry, combined with proprietary Real Time Black Lists, to maximize email protection for our clients. Unlike other providers that use free open-source software, our custom email defense system will eliminate 99% of Spam, 100% of Viruses, with a false positive rate of 1 in 1,000,000. We guarantee that our Advanced Email Defense system will beat any other filtering service in both quality and value.

MailFoundry's email protection engine, MessageIQ, is the newest, most capable engine available on the market today. Bar none.

That's quite a claim, we know. But unlike the other products, MailFoundry can back it up.

How?

MailFoundry built it.  They own the code. They own the intellectual property. They don't use any "spam assasin" technology in MessageIQ.

MessageIQ gives MailFoundry the edge over all of the competition in terms of kill rate performance, false positive performance, message per second processing performance and adaptability to new threats.

How is MailFoundry able to all of this when the rest of the anti-spam industry can't?

The competition built their engines to kill spam. MailFoundry didn't. MailFoundry built MessageIQ from the ground up to protect the message.

Big difference.

For MailFoundry, killing spam, viruses, phishing emails and image spam is easy. The difficult task is to not identify legitimate email as a threat.

The entire anti-spam industry is built around engines that kill spam, but also block a startling amount of legitimate email at the same time. MailFoundry designed MessageIQ from the ground up with a zero false positive goal from the onset. MailFoundry's approach was different, and as a result, MailFoundry's performance is different.

Something to ponder - competitor engines are legacy as far we we're concerned. Email threats are an evolving target. MailFoundry built their latest engine as a whole new code base from the ground up. Everyone else keeps duct taping theirs. Spammers are smart. There are technology changes day to day. A new engine was needed to counter the changing threat. So MailFoundry built one.

HOW IT WORKS

MessageIQ uses targeted spam profiles that were created to defeat actual spam outbreaks as they happen.  MailFoundry doesn't use any hueristics or learning systems in their approach. Those systems give fairly decent kill rates, but have horrid false positive rates. They also need constant maintenance and "training" by the system administrators and end users.

The MessageIQ NOC examines email threats as they happen in realtime from around the globe. Over 500,000 messages per hour are classified automatically and new profiles or updated profiles are sent out every five minutes to MailFoundry appliances world-wide. MailFoundry's profiles are built around current attacks based on their key fingerprints. This involves more than just analysis of the email content. This involves examination of the sending email server, network data, header data, message content and other attributes.

These spam profiles give MessageIQ the ability to quickly and accurately identify emails in realtime.

MessageIQ is a hands-off operation solution. MailFoundry updates the spam profiles every five minutes as email threat outbreaks happen so MailFoundry appliances world-wide have the most up to date profiles without any interaction with the network admins or end users. Since we don't have false positives, we also don't have individual user logins for whitelist management, etc. Many of the features common on other solutions exist as a result of their high false positive rates. You won't find any of that on the MailFoundry platform.

IMAGE SPAM

Image spam has been a problem for other anti-spam engines because of its nature as an attachment payload, and techniques like OCR (optical character recognition) aren't successful at blocking this type of attack for two main reasons. 1) it's easy to modify the message per incident to bypass the OCR engine, and 2) OCR is a high CPU intensive application and can cripple the throughput of systems using it. MessageIQ is effective against image spam and doesn't slow down the processing of emails because MessageIQ is able to handle these emails in the same manner that it deals with all payload attacks.

The reality is that performance speaks for itself. In an industry where the signal to noise ratio for performance claims and reality is skewed, we ask that you take MailFoundry for a test drive and experience it for yourself. Every day new customers are thrilled by how MailFoundry has transformed their email experience, and we want you to experience that first hand.

ANTI-VIRUS

Not only do we have the most effective SPAM killer on the market but we scan for virus' as well. Email is the most common method for propagating a virus so we stop them dead in their tracks before it reaches the end user.  All of the mail passing through the MailFoundry containing any known or suspected viruses is stopped before it reaches your mailbox.  This is in addition to the Anti-virus filter we use directly on our email servers.

MailFoundry Anti-Spam System which we run on our network to help stop spam and viruses from reaching your mailbox. No false positives. 

For more information or to sign up for our MailFoundry Anti-Spam filtering system, contact us or call our friendly and knowledgable Customer Support number at 1.866.864.2836.