IIJ America Leverages MX Logic Email Defense Service to Deliver Advanced Email Protection to Japanese Multinational Corporations in North America

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Monday, June 28, 2004; 12:00 AM

DENVER—June 28, 2004—MX Logic, Inc., a leading provider of innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for enterprises, service providers, government organizations, resellers and their customers, today announced that IIJ America Inc., a subsidiary of the Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ, NASDAQ: IIJIE), has selected MX Logic to deliver comprehensive email defense to its North American enterprise customer base. IIJ is one of Japan's leading Internet-access and comprehensive Internet solutions providers, with one of the largest Internet backbones in Japan and between Japan and the United States.

IIJ America is leveraging MX Logic's Email Defense Service, which blocks 98 percent of spam and unwanted content and attachments, and stops viruses, worms and other email threats such as fraud and phishing scams from entering the corporate email network. IIJ is co-branding and selling MX Logic Email Defense Service to Japanese multinational corporations in North America as part of its overall Internet service solution suite.

Once considered merely a nuisance, spam and other email threats have become a costly burden for enterprises. Ferris Research estimates that in 2003, the total cost of spam to U.S. businesses in lost productivity was $10 billion. In the month of May, the MX Logic Threat Center reported that 74.4 percent of all email traffic filtered by the company was spam. MX Logic has seen more than 500 unique email-borne viruses and worms in its Threat Center since Jan. 1, and that number is expected to continue rising. By 2006, industry analysts expect the economic impact of computer viruses to approach $60 billion worldwide.

"Spam protection and robust email defense are two key network concerns for our enterprise customers," said Isao Momota, president and CEO, IIJ America. "MX Logic's Email Defense Service allows us to deliver comprehensive email protection to our enterprise customers, shielding them from email-borne threats before they reach corporate networks. Because of its flexibility, the MX Logic Email Defense Service enables us to meet the requirements of our core market—Japanese multinational corporations in North America."

MX Logic's Email Defense Service leverages its MX Logic's Stacked Classification Framework®,, which employs the most effective spam filters and techniques in the industry. Through aggregation and analysis of spam-likelihood scores, MX Logic provides highly effective spam blocking and ensures very low levels of legitimate email marked as spam. In addition to unsolicited content filtering and blocking, MX Logic provides maximum virus defense powered by MX Logic's proprietary anti-virus engine and premier virus-scanning engines that are updated in near-real-time.

MX Logic's Email Defense Service includes a SecureMX feature that shields and conceals the messaging infrastructure—including the location of the mail servers—from the public Internet, removing the threat of network probes and providing robust protection from attack.

Powering MX Logic's Email Defense Service is MX Logic's Threat Center, a sophisticated streaming data environment where MX Logic monitors the global state of email communication 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and provides MX Logic's customers with real-time updates and protection. Led by email security experts with extensive experience in protecting messaging networks, the Threat Center provides dynamic email defense—staying far ahead of the next attack by continually incorporating information about the very latest spammer, virus and worm tactics.

"As the battle against spam and other email threats continues to escalate, enterprises worldwide need dynamic messaging protection and security that can be implemented quickly and cost- effectively," said John Street, CEO, MX Logic. "The MX Logic Email Defense Service enables service providers like IIJ America to provide even greater support to its customers by delivering robust and comprehensive email defense services."

About IIJ America, Inc.
IIJ America Inc. is a subsidiary of Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ, NASDAQ: IIJIE), one of Japan's leading Internet-access and comprehensive network solutions providers. IIJ America was established in 1996 to bring high-quality Internet access services to U.S. customers, linking directly to IIJ group's seamless high-capacity backbone network connecting the United States, Japan and the countries of Asia.

Founded in 1992, IIJ is one of Japan's leading Internet-access and comprehensive network solutions providers. The company has built one of the largest Internet backbone networks in Japan, and between Japan and the United States. IIJ and its group of companies provide total network solutions that mainly cater to high-end corporate customers. The company's services include high-quality systems integration and security services, Internet access, hosting/housing, and content design.

More information on IIJ America is available at www.iij-america.com.

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; provide corporate-level quarantine release reports that help reduce inappropriate email while decreasing corporate liability; and deliver a solution for tracking URL click-throughs from email to the Web, providing increased corporate control and security.

Through the company's managed service offering, MX Logic processes millions of messages per day for over 2,000 organizations, including EnCana, Hyundai Motor America, The Sports Authority, YMCA and ServiceMaster. 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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