We’re proud of the how well the Red Condor's technology filters email.
It’s what sets Red Condor apart from there competition. Red Condor has
developed a comprehensive suite of proprietary and patent-pending
technology to do the best possible job of protecting your
email.
Multi-Layered Defense System: Red Condor
provides a comprehensive multi-layered defensive strategy to provide the
utmost in network protection and removal of email threats. Incoming
email must pass through successive layers of SMTP session level
defenses, content analysis, virus detection, sender profiling, and other
filtering before reaching the recipient’s email inbox. Each defensive
layer removes a specific category of threat, resulting in our
industry-leading rate for blocking unsafe emails.
Email DNA Analysis: Red Condor’s
proprietary Email DNA analysis technology identifies unique
characteristics of email that indicate spam, phishing schemes, and other
forms of dangerous or objectionable content with near-certainty.
Incoming email is then checked against the Email DNA database to remove
any emails that contain matching Email DNA. This provides a much more
accurate way to identify any problem emails than traditional techniques
such as heuristics and Bayesian-based spam filters.
Email Behavioral Analysis: Our
behavior-analysis system observes inbound and outbound network traffic
to spot unusual behavior patterns. Any suspicious behavior is then
reported to Red Condor’s Security Operations Center, which implements
appropriate response techniques to throttle, monitor, or intercept the
behavior across all Red Condor protected email systems.
Sender Reputation Scoring: Red Condor
creates a merit-based reputation score for each email sender based on
both sender history and message characteristics. When determining a
sender’s reputation score we evaluate factors such as whether or not the
sender has previously sent email, how much of that mail was received, an
analysis of the sender’s email history, and a behavioral analysis of
whether that sender’s email behaves like spam. Red Condor then uses this
real-time reputation score to regulate email from each sender. In many
cases, Red Condor can block the majority of spam or other undesirable
email based on sender reputation data.
Advanced Image Filtering: Spammers often
use images in their emails to try and avoid spam filters. Unlike other
spam solutions, Red Condor does not rely on OCR or other simple image
fingerprinting technologies. Our Advanced Image Filtering technology
includes both comprehensive image analysis as well as dynamic feedback
of the message content. We filter both externally-linked images and
attached images, and use sophisticated techniques such as color
filtering, de-speckling, scanning of individual frames in GIF
animations, pixel pattern filtering, and text image filtering.
Multi-Pass Virus and Malware Protection: In
order to provide the best possible protection from email-borne viruses,
we use multiple anti-virus engines to detect and remove viruses,
spyware, trojans, or other malware from your email. In addition, Red
Condor’s Zero-Hour Virus Defense system continuously scans for new and
emerging virus strains and other malware.
False-Positive Prevention: Many spam
filtering products boost the percentage of spam they block by using
imprecise and over-aggressive techniques that create a large number of
false positives, preventing legitimate email from being delivered. Not
Red Condor. Our superior technology allows us to not only correctly
identify spam, but also correctly identify legitimate emails to make
sure you don’t miss an important email because it gets blocked or
wrongly placed in your junk folder. Before any new rule or filter is
deployed it is regression tested against a constantly evolving set of
‘good email’ to make sure that it does not create even a single
false-positive. If it does, we rewrite the rule until it is perfect. As
a result, our false-positive rate leads the industry at less than 1 in
70,000.
Adaptive Threat Detection™ Perimeter Defense:
We not only protect your email, we protect your network as well. Red
Condor’s Adaptive Threat Detection™ technology provides perimeter
protection from network-based threats such as Denial of Service and
Directory Harvest attacks. The Adaptive Threat Detection™ Perimeter
Defense system uses merit-based reputation analysis of IP addresses,
senders, and recipients to identify and thwart the most abusive email
attacks and block most spam campaigns before they ever enter your
network. It’s like having a defensive shield around your network that
blocks problems before they ever get to your network, in contrast to
other solutions that let hazards into your network and then depend on
client or server software to deal with the problems once they get
through.
Real-Time Protection Updates: Spammers and
hackers are always figuring out new ways to circumvent existing filters
and other defenses so that they can continue to profit from their
predatory activities. In order to combat the ever-changing nature of the
problem, we have developed the Red Condor Global Threat Assessment
Network. Real-time knowledge gathered from this worldwide sensor network
is used to create new detection and protection rules, which are then
sent out as updates on a continuous basis. Both our Hosted Service and
MAG-series devices receive these automatic updates every few minutes,
making sure your email protection is always up-to-date.
Fault-Tolerant Vx Technology™: Our
MAG-series network appliances have the option of Red Condor’s
revolutionary Vx Technology™ to provide fault-tolerant dependability
that protects all incoming email traffic. With Vx Technology, if any MAG-series
device fails or goes off-line due to unexpected problems such as
overwhelming attack, network issues or local power failure, all your
incoming email is immediately re-directed to our Hosted Service center
so that your email remains protected without interruption.
Outbound Traffic Filtering: In addition to
protecting your inbound email, we also provide a service for appliances
that analyzes your outbound traffic to identify messages that may have
been sent from a computer that has been surreptitiously converted to a
“zombie” or “bot net” client. Many spammers use viruses, trojans, fake
software downloads, and other tactics to create a network of infected
client computers that are then used for sending out spam without the
user’s knowledge. These zombies can then lead to your network being
black-listed by other spam filters, preventing legitimate email sent by
anyone on your network from reaching its intended recipient. For
appliances, Red Condor can block this outbound spam and malicious email
and then notify your network administrator so that any zombie computers
can be identified and treated for the underlying infection.
End-User Email Tools: We provide each
mailbox owner with Red Condor Personal Dashboards that let users easily
refine their filter policies and review their spam quarantine without
having to manage an extra “junk mail” folder. In addition, every user
receives a customizable Spam Digest report delivered to their inbox that
lets them track the effectiveness of their individual filter profiles
and preferences.
Sophisticated Administration Capabilities:
Red Condor’s administration tools provide powerful capabilities and make
it easy to manage complex network configurations, including support for
multiple domains and domain aliases. Our web-based Administrator
Dashboard lets you set email filter policies, configure complex mail
routing, view advanced reports and statistics, and monitor filter
performance. You can even control mail policies on a per-user basis,
with the ability to control features such as whitelists and blacklists,
email and attachment blocking, email and attachment tagging, and email
quarantine settings.
Flexible Network Support: Red Condor’s
email protection products don’t require and changes to servers or client
computers, are fully RFC-2821 compliant, and are easy to configure
thanks to advanced features such as automatic mailbox discovery, LDAP
connector support, and automatic detection of aliases using SMTP VRFY.
In addition, integrated email queue management and mail routing supports
complex network deployments and provides disaster recovery protection
24x7 Security Operations Center: Our
technology, services, and products are all supported by our 24x7
Security Operations Center that constantly monitors all network activity
to search for new email threats. The Security Operations Center gathers
and consolidates data from the Red Condor Global Threat Assessment
Network, behavior-analysis system, and Adaptive Threat Detection
Perimeter Defense system. Our system is designed with a “Human in the
Loop” philosophy that adds the power of human intelligence to our
comprehensive array of technology. When a new threat emerges our
technical experts can immediately respond, ensuring continuous ongoing
deployment of new filters and rules.
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