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Abaca Provides Guaranteed Email Protection for Higher Education Customers
Innovative Anti-Spam Solution Ensures Campus-wide Security with Minimal IT Support
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY 2007 - December 11, 2007 - Abaca Technology Corporation, an innovator in email protection and messaging security, announced today that its Email Protection Gateway™ provides campus-wide email security for colleges and universities with almost no ongoing maintenance required. Visit the Abaca exhibition at the Leadership in Practice: Campus Technology 2007 conference in San Francisco today.
Based on a sophisticated algorithm that uses receiver reputation to precisely differentiate spam from legitimate messages, Abaca's breakthrough solution guarantees a 99 percent spam catch rate with less than one false positive in 20,000 emails. The core of the solution is ReceiverNet™, a proprietary, patent-pending technology that uses the receiver's reputation to determine whether incoming messages are legitimate or not. Available as both a hardware/software appliance and as a virtual solution, Abaca's Email Protection Gateway automatically updates its own software and definitions on a regular basis requiring virtually no system administration once it is installed.
Originally designed with small to medium businesses (SMBs) in mind, Abaca's Email Protection Gateway offers the same high level of email security to customers in the education market, many of whom face IT challenges similar to those of SMBs.
"Schools, colleges and universities often have large Internet footprints that make them very attractive to spammers," noted Leo Jolicoeur, chief executive officer of Abaca Technology Corporation. "They also have publicly available faculty, staff and departmental email addresses that can easily end up on spammers' hit lists. But what these institutions typically don't have are large IT budgets and lots of extra network bandwidth. Like many smaller businesses, they can't afford to let spam become a drain on user productivity, IT resources and network capacity."
The Abaca Email Protection Gateway has already proven itself at several K-12 schools and that applies to Notre Dame High School in Belmont, California, an independent Catholic college preparatory school for young women. The school has a staff of 110 educators and administrators. Frank Gurnee, Director of Technology at Notre Dame High School, was highly motivated to get rid of the more than 4,000 spam emails that were disturbing his staff every day.
The Principal has been equally impressed by the reliability and self-sufficiency of the Abaca Email Protection Gateway. "It is the most simple and complete program to use on a daily basis. It is crisp, clear, and accurate. What more can you ask?" JoAnn Kozloski, Associate Principal of Notre Dame High School. Other Abaca customers in the education market echo these comments.
"No ongoing administration is necessary to maintain the effectiveness of the Abaca Email Protection Gateway," agreed Steve Taffee, director of information technology at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California. "The appliance stops more than 99.9 percent of the spam with an extremely low rate of false positives-while also easing the load on our email system."
According to Jolicoeur, Abaca is now fully prepared to bring its Email Protection Gateway to the higher education market. "The Abaca Email Protection Gateway is battle-tested and ready for large-scale deployment at colleges and universities," he said. "We guarantee our higher education customers will see the same kinds of results we have delivered for other customers, both in the K-12 market and the SMB space."
For more information about Abaca and the Email Protection Gateway, visit the Abaca exhibition at the Leadership in Practice: Campus Technology 2007 conference in San Francisco on December 11, 2007. Abaca is also a Silver Sponsor of this higher education event.
About Abaca Technology Corporation
Abaca Technology Corporation is an innovator in email protection and messaging security. Abaca's patent-pending technology, ReceiverNet#8482; offers an advanced approach in the fight against spam - providing unprecedented levels of accuracy and guaranteeing 99 percent spam filtration. Abaca has created a portfolio of innovative products and services based upon this core technology, thereby assuring users unparalleled messaging protection from spam, as well as viruses and phishing attacks. Abaca is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information about Abaca, please visit www.abaca.com.
Abaca® Email Protection Gateway™, Abaca® Email Protection Gateway™, ReceiverNet™ and the Abaca logos are trademarks of Abaca Technology Corporation and may be registered in the United States and/or other countries. Other trademarks shown are the property of their respective owners.
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