MX Logic Introduces Email Defence Gateway For Service Providers; Becomes First To Leverage Proven Managed Service Platform For On-Premise Software Offering

New Scalable Product Transforms Spam and Message Threat Cost Center Into Profit Center For Carriers, ISPs, Wireless Operators and Web Hosts

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Thursday, February 26, 2004; 12:00 AM

DENVER—Feb. 26, 2004—MX Logic, Inc., a leading provider of innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for service providers, enterprises, government organizations, resellers and their customers, today became the first email defense provider to introduce a software solution based on a proven, carrier-grade, managed service platform.

MX Logic Email Defense Gateway – Service Provider Edition provides reliable, dynamic and comprehensive messaging protection at the email gateway, helping ensure that spam and unwanted content and attachments are blocked, and that viruses, worms and other email threats never enter a service provider’s network or reach its end-user customers. In addition, MX Logic Email Defense Gateway gives service providers an immediate entry point to capitalize on the secure content management market, which is expected to grow to $6.4 billion in 2007, fueled by anti-spam products.

With MX Logic’s turnkey Email Defense Gateway, service providers can provide comprehensive protection to their hosted consumer email customers, while easily and rapidly creating new revenue streams from the sale of private-labeled email defense services to their business customers who manage their own messaging environments. Additionally, through their own reseller network, service providers can generate revenue quickly by reselling managed email defense services to end-user customers.

“With spam accounting for more than 50 percent of all Internet email traffic, service providers are waging a costly war. MX Logic’s new Email Defense Gateway enables them to provide comprehensive email protection to their consumer end users, increasing customer satisfaction and decreasing churn,” said Scott Chasin, chief technology officer, MX Logic. “But MX Logic Email Defense Gateway offers more—it enables service providers, for the first time ever, to meet the enormous market demand for commercial-grade email defense services. Because service providers are already managing the email that is routed to their business customers who manage their own email internally, this new product provides a great opportunity generate revenue by offering email defense filtering services to those customers directly and through their reseller network. With MX Logic Email Defense Gateway, service providers can seamlessly offer their business customers groundbreaking email defense service where the service provider filters the mail—based on the customers’ corporate policies—before it reaches the business customers’ networks.

“Over the past two years, MX Logic has developed a reliable and comprehensive email defense service that analyzes and blocks up to 98.5 percent of spam and stops worms, viruses and other malicious threats before they harm the network,” Chasin added. “We have more than 1,000 customers today, and based on market demand, we have customized our platform to address the specific needs of service providers.”

With this announcement, MX Logic now offers both a managed service (MX Logic Email Defense Service) and a software gateway (MX Logic Email Defense Gateway – Service Provider Edition), developed by MX Logic technologists who have built and managed some of the world’s largest messaging networks. The combination of solutions enables MX Logic to provide service providers with a risk-free adoption path. Service providers can rapidly and cost-effectively test and market email defense solutions in a managed service environment, without having to invest in hardware or software, or significantly impact their internal IT department. Then, over time, they can seamlessly and transparently migrate from the MX Logic Email Defense Service to the MX Logic Email Defense Gateway software.

“Service providers are faced with an increasing burden of protecting their consumer email end users from spam and other email threats. At the same time they are looking for new ways to generate revenue from the sale of value-added services,” said Richard Bliss, senior research analyst, Ferris Research. “MX Logic has built a managed service platform that allows service providers to deliver carrier-grade spam filtering and email defense capabilities to this market. By offering email defense services to business customers, service providers can increase revenue and gain a foothold in the fast-growing email defense market.”

MX Logic supports service providers in reselling email defense services to their business customers directly and through their reseller network with the following:

• Seamless Integration into Back-Office Provisioning and Customer Management Applications—Leveraging a Web service API, service providers can integrate the MX Logic Email Defense Gateway into customer provisioning applications, authenticate through subscriber LDAP directories and manage customer filtering policy data.

• Branding—Service providers can brand all elements of the service offering, including branding their Web-based MX Control ConsoleSM, with complete company information, corporate logos and all other parameters visible by their customers.

• Reseller Management—MX Logic Email Defense Gateway enables a multiple-tier distribution model. Service providers that have a wide and diverse reseller network, such as Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Web hosts who have end-user customers, can provide leading email defense solutions through their channel while benefiting from strong margins.

About MX Logic Email Defense Gateway—Service Provider Edition
MX Logic Email Defense Gateway represents the first end-to-end email defense solution that allows service providers to generate revenue from the sale of comprehensive and reliable email defense services to their reseller network and business customers, while providing cost-effective protection to their consumer email end users. Designed for a distributed architecture with carrier-grade reliability, the flexible software platform allows service providers to customize their solution by purchasing the gateway and then adding filtering modules as needed.

Email Defense Gateway Features
• Around-the-clock messaging infrastructure attack protection
• Up-to-the-minute threat protection
• Outbound message filtering
• Policy-based email threat management
• Sophisticated quarantine management
• Virus scanning engine plug-ins

For more information on these features, visit http://www.mxlogic.com/solutions/solutions_service.html.

Filtering Modules
• Spam Blocking Module enables comprehensive spam filtering, including protection against wireless SMS/MMS spam, and blocks up to 98.5 percent of spam and unwanted mail while maintaining industry-leading low false positive rates (legitimate email marked as spam) by utilizing MX Logic’s multi-layered Stacked Classification FrameworkSM, which aggregates the five most effective spam classifiers for maximum protection.

• Virus and Worm Scanning Module provides around-the-clock threat monitoring and protection coupled with up-to-the-minute defense against the latest virus and worm threats. Leveraging MX Logic’s proprietary virus and worm detection engine and two third-party anti-virus engines, McAfee and Sophos, the Virus and Worm Scanning Module identifies, blocks and strips viruses and worms before they enter the service provider’s and its business customers’ networks.

• Content and Attachment Filtering Module enables the ability to configure content policies to automatically filter and quarantine messages containing inappropriate content or attachments before they enter or leave the service provider’s and its business customers’ networks.

About MX Logic
MX Logic, Inc., provides innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for enterprises, service providers, government organizations and resellers and their customers. Deployed as a managed service or on-premise software, the company’s feature-rich solution suite is the industry’s most comprehensive, flexible and easy to use.

Founded by messaging industry pioneers, MX Logic has delivered numerous industry firsts to the enterprise spam market, including becoming the first managed service provider to leverage Bayesian Statistical Classification; provide spam beacon (“Web bug”) blocking; offer quarantine management via email; and provide corporate-level quarantine release reports that help reduce inappropriate email and decrease corporate liability.

Through the company’s managed service offering, MX Logic processes millions of messages per day for over 1,000 organizations, including EnCana, Hyundai Motor America, Sports Authority, YMCA, Service Master and U.S.I. Holdings Corporation. In addition, MX Logic is the only email defense company to offer both a managed service and a turnkey, carrier-grade software solution for service providers. For more information, visit www.mxlogic.com.

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