Anti-Spam Hardware

RazorGate 450 Listing updated: July 30, 2004

The RazorGate 450 includes the features: Simple design for deployment in minutes to work with any mail server, powerful spam filtering including MailHurdle technology to yield 98% catch-rates with virtually zero false positives, Mirapoint's customer-proven Full-Spectrum email security technology, integrated virus scanning technology, automatic updates for the latest protection, wiretap capability that is transparent to end-users, optional DirectPath real-time scanning without mail queue hassles, secure, hardened operating system with no known exploits, queue management tools and quarantine queue, integrated LDAP-based routing, redundant hardware components for increased reliability.
  • Users' Rating: 4.17 [6 votes] - Vote
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PowerElf II Server Appliance Listing updated: July 30, 2004

The PowerElf II's anti spam filter appliance features stop spam from your network. Unsolicited mail messages not only slows down productivity on the server they also waste end user's time by foring clients to sort messages in order to find relevent emails. It can be used as a standalone mail server or as a proxy mail server.
Features of the PowerElf II spam filter: The filter uses a wide range of heuristic tests to identify "unsolicited commercial email”, header analysis: spammers will attempt to hide their true identify, by fooling you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or by making you think you must have subscribed to their mailing list at some stage. The filter will try to spot this pattern, text analysis: spam mails often have a characteristic style, and often include text like disclaimers and CYA text. The spam filter can spot these, network tests: The spam filter supports RBLs and Bulk mail checks to help crack down on spammers.
  • Users' Rating: 3.33 [9 votes] - Vote
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Meridius Security Gateway Listing updated: July 30, 2004

With its hardened Linux operating system, non Sendmail-based SMTP MTA software, and a configurable caching DNS server, the Meridius Security Gateway appliance includes several anti-spam and counter-intrusion technologies such as address spoof tests, virus protection, realtime recurrent pattern detection (RPD) engine and blacklist queries, heuristic text analyses, and collaboration with various leading peer-to-peer spam detection networks such as Vipul’s Razor.

BlueCat Networks’ Meridius Security Gateway appliance is a dedicated mail transfer agent (MTA) and relay appliance designed to send, receive and deliver email messages to and from other MTAs, mail user agents and mail servers, and to protect a company’s email server (the device that stores users’ email) from potential external attacks and viruses, hijacks and spam.
  • Users' Rating: 4.21 [14 votes] - Vote
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PineApp Mail-SeCure Listing updated: July 30, 2004

PineApp Mail-SeCure provides multi-layered protection against incoming spam and viruses for small, medium and large networks. Mail-SeCure can handle countless amounts of e-mail a day without loading your mail servers down. The Mail-SeCure system validates each e-mail by origin, recipient, domain validity as well as content, headers, techniques and more. Mail-SeCure uses various RBL's (real-time black lists). Mail-SeCure supports features such as URL filtering, Mail-relaying, Mail-Scoring, Bayesian filtering, Pop3 scanning, Multiple Anti-virus scanning engines (F-Secure & PineApp), Anti-spoofing, Load Balancing, Statistics, Razor and DCC validation, Unlimited users nodes, Backscatter prevention, Denial of Service, Mail Bombing protection and more.
  • Users' Rating: 4.64 [133 votes] - Vote
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WatchGuard Firebox X Listing updated: July 29, 2004

For small- to mid-sized enterprises seeking integrated security in a fully model-upgradeable appliance that is also feature and service upgradeable. Upgrade your Firebox X integrated security appliance with a license key — unlock more security capabilities and features as your needs grow. An Intelligent Layered Security architecture provides protection through integrating firewall and VPN, intrusion prevention, application layer security, Web filtering, spam blocking, and authentication capabilities in a single appliance.
  • Users' Rating: 3.82 [11 votes] - Vote
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Spamgate-1000 Listing updated: July 29, 2004

The SpamGate appliance is a gateway which prevents 97% Spam, Viruses and Malformed messages from attacking your email servers. SpamGate acts as a gateway between the Internet and your mail server. Inbound mail is routed to the SpamGate appliance where it is checked for malformed headers, Viruses and Spam characteristics. If a message is detected as Spam you have options to deal with the message including Tagging the subject line, modifing the message header, forwarding the messsage to a common mailbox, deleting the message or rejecting the message.
  • Users' Rating: 4.23 [35 votes] - Vote
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Enterprise Interceptor Listing updated: July 29, 2004

The espion Interceptor Enterprise model is a solution designed to handle Enterprise Class mail-flow and provide internal redundancy in a single, secure appliance. The Enterprise Interceptor eliminates unwanted bulk email and relieves internal server stress for larger organizations that generate thousands of message per hour. Using espion Bayes technology, the Interceptor adjusts itself to your company's specific mail flow, filtering up to 99% of unwanted email with few false positives.
  • Users' Rating: 4.29 [17 votes] - Vote
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MailGate Listing updated: July 29, 2004

The MailGate appliance with Intent-Based Filtering artificial intelligence technology eliminates spam from enterprise email systems. Most anti-spam appliances require time-consuming and management-intensive rules, blacklists or signatures to work. But MailGate with IBF dispenses with those techniques and uses technology to recognize spam like a human reader would. MailGate intercepts spam at the gateway level, filtering out questionable email before it impacts the email servers.
  • Users' Rating: 3.8 [5 votes] - Vote
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Barracuda Spam Firewall Listing updated: July 29, 2004

Barracuda Networks manufactures the Barracuda Spam Firewall family, spam-blocking networking devices for small and large companies. The Barracuda Spam Firewall handles a massive amount of email, over 10 million messages a day, without bogging down your email servers. It also filters out viruses at the same time.
System features include: Denial of Service Security Protection, IP Block List, Rate Controls, Two Layers of Virus Protection, Spam Blocking Rules, User Specified Rules, Spam Fingerprint Check, Spam scoring, and Bayesian Analysis.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.37 [218 votes] - Vote
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IronMail Listing updated: July 29, 2004

IronMail is a security appliance that sits between the network firewall and Exchange, to protect against buffer overrun and denial-of-service attacks, virus (using the Sophos anti-virus product), and spam. Monitors for other suspicious activities that might indicate an intrusion. Provides some e-mail policies for incoming and outgoing messages. Uses a hardware accelerator for SSL encryption, without the need to encrypt on every mail server.
  • Users' Rating: 3.75 [4 votes] - Vote
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