Sendio First Defense Technologies Available to Partners

Licensed Sender Validation Modules Integrate with Existing Products

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 that the technology used in their recently released Sendio® First Defense service is now licensable by third-party developers for integration into email security products and unified threat management solutions. The Sendio technology adds an array of robust message sender validation tests that augment the content filtering functions typically found in these devices. This results in a highly enhanced solution that is significantly more effective at mitigating both the potential risks and actual productivity losses of malicious email.

“Our Sendio First Defense service allows organizations to reinforce their communications infrastructure without changing their current investment,” said Peter Ombres, Sendio chief operating officer. “During field trials, several customers asked if there was a way to run the service locally on already existing equipment instead of from our hosting datacenter. We determined that the best technical solution was to offer our software modules to the developers of the existing security products and help them with the integration, which they can then offer as an upgrade. We are already in active negotiations with several potential partners who recognize that the latest tactics used in email attacks are dramatically reduced by our sender validation techniques.”

The Sendio First Defense technologies include 3 sender validation steps, plus an anti-virus scan, that eliminate 97% of invalid email messages prior to payload. Licensing terms are based on scaling factors tied to the number of email accounts being protected. To learn more, please visit sendio.com.

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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