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Red Condor Issues Warning to Bots With New BotHunter
BotHunter Constantly Monitors Malicious Bot Activity Across the Internet
| Source: Red Condor, Inc.
ROHNERT PARK, CA--(Marketwire - June 2, 2009) - Red Condor, the award-winning provider of
true hybrid email security solutions, recently released BotHunter, an
advanced layer of email security that monitors bot activity in real-time
across the Internet. BotHunter is included as part of Red Condor's email security solutions,
which include its family of Message Assurance Gateway (MAG) network
appliances and Hosted Service. All
Red Condor's products come with full functionality and premium fully
managed support.
Red Condor's BotHunter system pulls targeted data, searching for potential
bot activity across the Web. BotHunter runs an extensive series of tests on
each suspected IP address, also double checking against BeigeList™, a
list of known good senders to minimize False Postives. If the IP address
passes all tests, it is added to Red Condor's own Real Time Bot List
("BotHunter RBL"). BotHunter has proven successful against the Conficker or
Conflicker botnet, which has attacked more than 10 million computers around
the world, as well as against the resurging threat of image spam most of
which is generated by bots. Red Condor charts the number of bots detected
by BotHunter in its online Threat Center located at RedCondor.com.
"BotHunter is one more way in which we are continually improving our
technology and further differentiating our approach to spam fighting from
other products and services on the market," said Dr. Thomas Steding, CEO of
Red Condor. "Our proprietary technology replaces the need to rely on the
off-the-shelf blacklists that every other solution on the market uses.
Experience shows that these lists are ineffective, so we built our own
solution from the ground up to ensure the highest level of performance. As
seen by the Conficker botnet, bots have become an increasingly popular way
for hackers and cyber criminals to disrupt business, steal information and
gain illegal access to company networks. Whether a Denial of Service bot or
spambot, BotHunter is continuously working to identify malicious bots and
prevent them from impacting our customers' day-to-day operations."
BotHunter is part of Red Condor's multi-layered
defense strategy. In addition to success layers of SMTP session level
defenses, content analysis, virus detection, sender profiling, and other
filtering Red Condor's technology also provides perimeter protection
against network-based threats. By identifying the source of threats, Red
Condor can block any potential malicious messages before they enter a
company's network.
Companies interested in experiencing Red Condor's filtering capabilities
can register to use any of the company's Message Assurance Gateway
appliances or Hosted Service free of charge for 30 days. The trial covers
unlimited emails boxes and domains. For more information, visit
http://www.redcondor.com/products/trial.htm.
About Red Condor
Red Condor is revolutionizing spam-fighting technology. Red Condor's highly
accurate Email DNA™ filter, hybrid
architecture Vx Technology™, and fully managed
appliances lead to a dramatic reduction in the cost of owning a premium
spam filter.
With solutions for small business, as well as ISPs with millions of email
inboxes, Red Condor has a cost-effective, time-saving solution that is
rapidly gaining market share. The system's design has built-in zero
tolerance for lost email, and a near zero false-positive rate while
achieving long-term spam block rates greater than 99%. This next generation
technology is backed by a 24x7 customer care center staffed by email
security experts at Red Condor's headquarters. For more information, visit
www.redcondor.com.