by G Hunt | Feb 9, 2010 | Internet Security Updates
Boston, MA and Galway, Ireland – 9 February 2010: The latest issue of Messaging News, a premier publication focused on on the rapidly changing face of business email and messaging technology, features an insightful article by WebTitan CEO, Ronan Kavanagh.
The article titled ‘the Death of the Hardware Security Appliance’ investigates the link between the rising popularity of virtualization for business applications of all kinds and the decline of the security hardware appliance. Kavanaghs’ article discusses how Virtualization technology has only recently come into its own developing from single server installations to fully global cloud-based infrastructures. Read more
by G Hunt | Jan 11, 2010 | SpamTitan News, TitanHQ in the News
Boston, MA and Galway, Ireland – 11 January 2010: SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of powerful yet easy-to-manage spam and web filtering software, today announced that it has again outperformed the leading industry brands in the latest Virus Bulletin Spam awards. In comparative tests featuring 15 of its nearest rivals, SpamTitan combined the highest spam catch rate with a very low false positive ratio. This result earned SpamTitan the much coveted Virus Bulletin Award along with strong independent endorsement for its highly effective and easy to use spam filtering solution.
Virus Bulletin regularly conducts rigorous testing of anti-virus and anti-malware products to ensure the worldwide IT security industry stays equipped to protect users from the latest Internet threats. SpamTitan, which runs as a virtual machine under VMware, was taking part in the Virus Bulletin test for only the second time. In November 2009 SpamTitan picked up an award for the highest spam catch rate at the first attempt. In January’s test SpamTitan again outperformed some of the industry’s best known brands including McAfee, MailMarshal, BitDefender, Fortinet and Symantec.
“In recent years, e-mail spam has grown from a mere nuisance into a multi-million dollar business for criminals and the business consequences of not blocking spam effectively can be very damaging,” said Ronan Kavanagh CEO. “Unlike many of our rivals, SpamTitan does not require customers to choose between preventing large volumes of spam on the one hand or prescribing a low rate of false positives on the other – with SpamTitan they get both.
“We are seeing a growing number of new customers moving away from other solutions,” he added. “These independent test results prove that our hard work to ensure our customers receive the best possible protection from spam and viruses at an extremely competitive price is paying off.”
Two new categories of spam were added to the January test: those of ‘image spam’ and ‘large spam’. The former consisted of spam emails that contained at least one embedded image while the latter consisted of spam emails comprising a body size of at least 50,000 bytes. Both types of emails are notoriously difficult to filter, especially using traditional content scanning methods.
Martijn Grooten, author of the Virus Bulletin Anti-spam comparitive review stated that: ‘the detailed results show that neither large spam nor spam containing images are a problem for (SpamTitan) and, as there were few false positives it earns a Virus Bulletin Spam award with the second highest final score’.
by G Hunt | Dec 22, 2009 | WebTitan News
Boston, MA and Galway, 22 December 2009. SpamTitan technologies today unveiled the latest version of its widely acclaimed web filtering solution WebTitan 3.03. 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.
Many of the new features contained in WebTitan 3.03 have resulted from feedback and suggestions from users. One new policy feature whereby existing policies can be used as a template for subsequent policies will greatly improve ease of use and save the IT administrator time and effore otherwise used in the creation of a new policy from scratch. An important element of WebTitan has always been its automated management, in version 3.03 a product update pop up dialog box has been included, this notifies users that a new product update is available.
New features in the area of content filtering were also announced today, allowing user to import content filtering key words and a new search option for content filtering keywords. In addition, WebTitan 3.03 includes new category editing and notification features. These features allow for speedier category updating including increased flexibility in the area of administrator and user notifications. With these new features WebTitan can better deliver the benefits of a flexible, integrated web filtering solution on the network, at the desktop, and for the remote web-enabled employee.
WebTitan also recently announced that the Japanese version of WebTitan is now available. As well as the English language version WebTitan is now also available in Italian and Japanese, it is planned to launch severals other language versions of WebTitan in 2010, covering more than 100 countries and reaching over one billion potential users.
"We are dedicated to making web filtering easily accessible and manageable for all of our customers around the world," said Ronan Kavangh. "Our latest release raises the bar further in terms of performance and flexibility," said Kavanagh. "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 webfiltering solution available."
Pricing & Availability
The product is available for free download from the WebTitan website. WebTitan ISO and WebTitan for VMware costs from $850, WebTitan licenses are banded offering greater flexibility and based on the number of IP addresses accessing the internet concurrently.
About WebTitan
WebTitan a division of Copperfasten Technologies, the global provider of sophisticated enterprise-level email security solutions, offers small and medium size businesses the most comprehensive protection from email threats, including SPAM, viruses, Trojans, phishing, malware and other unwanted content. WebTitans unique approach in utilizing next-generation virtualization software eliminates the need for unwieldy hardware, giving customers unparalleled flexibility, versatility and capability but at an affordable price. Integrating best of breed technologies, WebTitan provides an easy to install, easy to manage and highly secure webfiltering solution. WebTitan, a division of CopperFasten Technologies, is a global company with headquarters in Galway, Ireland.
by G Hunt | Dec 9, 2009 | Internet Security Updates
Boston, MA and Galway, Ireland – 9 December 2009; SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of powerful yet easy-to-manage spam and web filtering software, today predicted that virtualised-driven, cloud computing offerings will render hardware security appliances all but functionally obsolete by the end of 2011. SpamTitan cited sales evidence to show that mounting pressure to cut hardware ownership costs and the ready availability of a growing number of easy-to-use and affordable virtual security appliances are rapidly changing buying habits in the IT security market.
According to SpamTitan CEO Ronan Kavanagh, the security landscape has changed completely with virtual appliances becoming an unstoppable force. Read more
by G Hunt | Nov 26, 2009 | SpamTitan News, TitanHQ in the News
Boston & Galway Nov 26, 2009 – Leading Virtualisation resource site VirtualizationAdmin.com today announced that SpamTitan was selected in the Security category of their Readers’ Choice Awards.
The Readers’ Choice Awards give visitors to VirtualisationAdmin.com the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category. VirtualisationAdmin.com users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions in the virtualization sphere at the workplace.
“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 Kavanagh CEO of SpamTitan Technologies. We are honoured to be recognized by VirtualisationAdmin.com and its readers for delivering industry-leading anti-spam products. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry it also demonstrates our ability to consistently and effectively address today’s top security challenges for a more secure enterprise. We are thrilled to accept this award from such a distinguished group of industry experts.”
SpamTitan for Vmware was launched in 2006, it is a complete operating system and software suite designed to run on VMware. Using VMware®, this enables businesses to run SpamTitan on any server irrespective of the operating system. When companies deploy SpamTitan using Vmware they enjoy all the benefits of virtualization. For small businesses this gives high availability, performance and the reliability of VMware with cost-effective packages designed for small IT environments. For medium and enterprise businesses the solution allows for increased IT control through service level automation, dramatically reducing capital and operating costs and maximizing IT efficiency.
