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by G Hunt | Oct 21, 2010 | SpamTitan News, TitanHQ Partner News
SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of powerful yet easy-to-manage spam and web filtering software, today announced that SpamTitan has achieved VMware Ready™ status as a Mail Security product. This designation indicates that SpamTitan has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process on the Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance managed by VMware and is now listed in the VMware Ready Mail Security category.
Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that SpamTitan makes best use of VMware technology and is ready for deployment in customer environments.“We are pleased that SpamTitan qualifies for the VMware Ready™ logo, signifying to customers that it has passed specific VMware testing and interoperability criteria and is ready to run their mission-critical business applications and operations,” said Bernie Mills, senior director, alliance programs, VMware.
Ronan Kavanagh, SpamTitan Technologies CEO commented: “By using SpamTitan with the Zimbra platform from VMware enterprises can benefit from our unique approach in utilising next-generation virtualisation software which eliminates the need for unwieldy hardware, giving customers unparalleled flexibility, versatility and capability but at an affordable price.”
The VMware Ready™ program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products and is a benefit of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. With more than 1200 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.
SpamTitan from SpamTitan Technologies can be found within the online VMware partner product catalog at
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/cat/521?k=spamtitan.
About SpamTitan Technologies
SpamTitan Technologies, a global provider of sophisticated enterprise-level email security solutions, markets SpamTitan, offering small and medium size businesses the most comprehensive protection from email threats, including Spam, viruses, Trojans, phishing, malware and other unwanted content.
It also markets WebTitan, an easy-to-install, easy-to-manage and highly secure web filtering solution. SpamTitan Technologies’ unique approach in utilising next-generation virtualisation software eliminates the need for unwieldy hardware, giving customers unparalleled flexibility, versatility and capability but at an affordable price. A division of CopperFasten Technologies, SpamTitan Technologies is a global company with headquarters in Galway, Ireland. For further information visit www.spamtitan.com.
by G Hunt | Sep 27, 2010 | SpamTitan News
Leading on-line technology website Windows IT Pro today announced the results of their recent SpamTitan review. The reviewer Nathan Winters found that SpamTitan was ‘ quick and easy to set up and works well with limited configuration. It has good granularity of policies and a simple UI for both administrators and end users.’.
Some of the key features of SpamTitan highlighted by the review included the granular nature by which policies can be applied. He noted that you can configure different spam- and virus-filtering settings for different email domains and systems. You can also configure outbound disclaimers for each domain and customize the notifications received when an email message breaks a policy.
The reviewer was particularly impressed with the overall spam and virus blocking abilities of SpamTitan estimating that since implementing SpamTitan less than 1 percent of mail received was spam, no false positives were reported and all viruses received were correctly filtered.
“SpamTitan anti-spam software continues to successfully help thousands of companies worldwide to rid users’ inboxes of spam,viruses and other email threats’ said Ronan KavanaghCEO of SpamTitan Technologies. We are delighted to be recognized by Windows IT pro, this review demonstrates our ability to consistently and effectively address today’s top security challenges for a more secure enterprise.
Following the review Windows IT Pro have recommended SpamTitan as a solid choice and a cost-effective way to protect your organization from email-borne threats. The full review is available at Windows IT Pro SpamTitan Review.
by G Hunt | Sep 21, 2010 | Internet Security Updates
SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of powerful yet easy-to-manage spam and web filtering software, today announced the findings of its latest survey of SMBs on the continued danger of phishing attacks. The research shows that despite media reports about the rise in phishing on social networking sites its perceived threat to businesses is marginal in comparison with traditional spam techniques.
An overwhelming majority (75 percent) of IT managers surveyed regard traditional spam as the top security threat. Opinion is divided over whether business network security measures have caused phishing attacks to migrate from email to social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook with 37 percent saying it is a growing phenomenon while 31 percent disagree. Instead they regard the move to on-line phishing as a natural response the growth in the user communities of the main social networking sites.
Clear policies along with improvements in user education and awareness topped recommendations as the best way to beat phishing in all its forms.
“Phishing attacks remain a clear and present threat to businesses,” said Ronan Kavanagh, CEO of SpamTitan Technologies. “There is no evidence to suggest that network security measures are discouraging the number of phishing attacks it is simply that the arrival of social networking in the workplace has presented phishers with a bigger pond to phish in.”
SpamTitan’s survey findings about the phishing threat posed by social networking sites are consistent with another Internet security report from earlier this year. According to antivirus software vendor Kaspersky Labs Facebook’s share of phishing attacks in the first three months of 2010 was just 5.7 percent. This earned it fourth place on the list of most-targeted Web sites a long way behind the leaders HSBC, eBay and PayPal which alone accounts for more than 52 percent of all scams.
To safeguard customers from phishing attacks, the latest SpamTitan release uses a multi-layered approach. It includes new malware detection mechanisms and other significant improvements to the scan engine including a large set of Phishing signatures, support for SURBLs (Spam URL Realtime Blocklists) and heuristic rule tests. The new phishing module allows SpamTitan to deliver better and more generic detection of phishing emails by searching for URLs in email messages and can also detect day-zero phishing emails.
About SpamTitan Technologies
SpamTitan Technologies, a global provider of sophisticated enterprise-level email security solutions, markets SpamTitan, offering small and medium size businesses the most comprehensive protection from email threats, including SPAM, viruses, Trojans, phishing, malware and other unwanted content. It also markets WebTitan, an easy-to-install, easy-to-manage and highly secure web filtering solution. SpamTitan Technologies’ unique approach in utilising next-generation virtualisation software eliminates the need for unwieldy hardware, giving customers unparalleled flexibility, versatility and capability but at an affordable price. A division of CopperFasten Technologies, SpamTitan Technologies is a global company with headquarters in Galway, Ireland. For further information visit www.spamtitan.com.
by G Hunt | Aug 27, 2010 | SpamTitan News
Galway , August 24th – SpamTitan Technologies now support running SpamTitan software on 64-bit machines. This introduction is as a result of growing requests from customers who have been seeing new servers coming to market with 64-bit processors as standard as well as virtualisation software providers like VMware supporting 64-bit across their platforms.
Running SpamTitan on a 64bit processor allows for higher performance than is achievable with 32-bit processors, it also allows users to increase the memory above the 3.5GB limit set by 32-bit processors. The SpamTitan 64bit platform is ideally suited to ISPs who wish to extend their offerings e.g. to filter outbound mails to guard against customer’s being blacklisted due to spam attacks. The SpamTitan 64 bit platform can be easily clustered with the 32bit platform allowing so it can be rolled out as customers acquire 64bit hardware or 64bit virtual infrastructure without any disruption to their current installation.
SpamTitan has been designed from the ground up to meet the complex scaleability and management needs of ISPs and other managed email service providers. More and more this means operating in a virtualized environment as ISPs seek to optimize their server usage. “SpamTitan is one of the first vendors to provide 64-bit support for virtual computing allowing ISPs the opportunity to extend their offerings. There are few virtualized security solutions to offer such an extensive set of tools that are specifically tailored to the needs of ISPs,” said Kavanagh.
The flexibility offered by these tools along with the product’s reliability, capacity and tracking abilities is invaluable to dynamic environments such as ISPs where customers subscribe and unsubscribe on a continuous basis. Current users of SpamTitan can download a new installation from https://www.spamtitan.com/download, once SpamTitan has been set-up successfully 64-bit support is available. Support for 64-bit computing will be extended to the WebTitan solution very shortly.
For any queries on SpamTitan in a 64 bit environment please contact helpdesk@titanhq.com
About SpamTitan Technologies
SpamTitan Technologies, a global provider of sophisticated enterprise-level email security solutions, markets SpamTitan, offering small and medium size businesses the most comprehensive protection from email threats, including SPAM, viruses, Trojans, phishing, malware and other unwanted content. It also markets WebTitan, an easy-to-install, easy-to-manage and highly secure web filtering solution. SpamTitan Technologies’ unique approach in utilising next-generation virtualisation software eliminates the need for unwieldy hardware, giving customers unparalleled flexibility, versatility and capability but at an affordable price. A division of CopperFasten Technologies, SpamTitan Technologies is a global company with headquarters in Galway, Ireland. For further information email info@spamtitan.com
by G Hunt | Aug 25, 2010 | WebTitan News
Boston, MA and Galway- SpamTitan technologies today unveiled the latest version of its widely acclaimed web filtering solution WebTitan 3.41. The new features and enhancements provide users with greater management capabilities allowing organisations to improve productivity while proactively protecting the organisations from today’s Web 2.0 threats, all at an affordable price.
WebTitan 3.41 contains several new fixes and improvements. The most significant new feature in V3.41 is that WebTitan now provides powerful real time reporting capabilities allowing administrators to view and monitor Internet Activity in Real time. This new feature coupled with comprehensive reporting capabilities will allow organisations become more agile in effectively changing internet and browsing policy based on actual real-time activity.
Other enhancements include the addition of support for the importation of users from Novell eDirectory. This adds another user importation option to WebTitan which already support LDAP, NTLM and IP based authentication. All new features and changes contained in WebTitan 3.41 have resulted from feedback and suggestions from users.
"We continue to look for ways to ensure that WebTitan is continually improving the way organisations can protect their networks, improve productivity and successfully enforce a corporate internet usage policy in a cost effective way. These new features reinforce our goal of providing customers with the best web filtering solution available."
Pricing & Availability
The product is available for free download from the WebTitan website with a fully functional 30 day trial. WebTitan ISO and WebTitan for VMware licenses cost from $850, WebTitan licenses are banded offering greater flexibility and based on the number of IP addresses accessing the internet concurrently.
Full product information is available
About SpamTitan Technologies
SpamTitan Technologies, a global provider of sophisticated enterprise-level email security solutions, markets SpamTitan, offering small and medium size businesses the most comprehensive protection from email threats, including SPAM, viruses, Trojans, phishing, malware and other unwanted content.
It also markets WebTitan, an easy-to-install, easy-to-manage and highly secure web filtering solution. SpamTitan Technologies’ unique approach in utilising next-generation virtualisation software eliminates the need for unwieldy hardware, giving customers unparalleled flexibility, versatility and capability but at an affordable price. A division of CopperFasten Technologies, SpamTitan Technologies is a global company with headquarters in Galway, Ireland. For further information email info@spamtitan.com
