Sendio Reinforces Third-Party Anti-Spam Products

Sendio First Defense Service Bolsters Effectiveness of Legacy Technology

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - December 9, 2009 - Sendio, Inc., developer of the only email system protection solutions to utilize self-managing email communities which totally eliminate attacks and abuse, today announced the availability of the Sendio® First Defense service. Comprised of elements from the recently announced Sendio® Full Defense service, First Defense eliminates 97% of invalid email messages “in the cloud,” before they reach existing anti-spam products, enabling those products to regain a portion of their declining effectiveness. Sendio First Defense allows organizations to reinforce their email protection infrastructure without making any changes to their physical environment or user procedures, at a very minimal cost.

“Anti-spam products that leverage content filtering used to be reasonably successful,” said Peter Ombres, Sendio chief operating officer. “However, the unwanted email that everyone still calls ‘spam’ has evolved from being simply high-volume solicitation into malicious scripting attacks trying to compromise systems and data. This abusive email looks exactly like legitimate messages from valid senders so content filtering is hopeless. By offering First Defense as a front-end processor for a company’s anti-spam system, we can showcase the effectiveness of Sendio technology, while extending the useful life of the current security investment.”

The Sendio First Defense service includes 3 of the sender validation techniques, plus an anti-virus scan, that are part of the complete Sendio Full Defense service. Once a First Defense account is enabled, a customer simply points their MX Record to the First Defense service address to redirect the email flow. Messages are quickly processed and, after eliminating obvious invalid messages, First Defense then forwards the remaining messages to the customer’s existing anti-spam system. Sendio First Defense is available now on a per-month, no-contract subscription basis, with introductory pricing starting at $25 with 14 day free trials available. To learn more, please visit sendio.com/firstdefense.

About Sendio

Sendio is a feisty Southern California software development company whose products protect the email environments of enterprises and institutions from attacks and abuse. Using self-managing communities similar to those found in modern social networking applications, Sendio users receive all of the email sent by customers, suppliers, partners, associates and other members of their “community” while being completely shielded from both nonsense messages sent by casual abusers and devious messages from malicious criminal concerns. More information regarding Sendio can be found at sendio.com.

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