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Red Condor Outperforms Google's Message Security in Head-to-Head Anti-Spam Test
The Tolly Group Concludes Red Condor Outperforms Postini in Blocking Spam and Ensuring Legitimate Email Is Accurately Delivered at Significantly Less Cost
| Source: Red Condor, Inc.
ROHNERT PARK, CA--(Marketwire - June 30, 2009) - Red Condor, the award-winning provider of
fully managed email security solutions, today announced the results of a
recent third-party head-to-head anti-spam effectiveness and feature comparison test between Red Condor Message Assurance
Gateway 2700 (MAG2700) and Google Inc.'s Message Security powered by
Postini. The test, which was conducted by The Tolly Group, found that the
MAG2700's spam detection rate was significantly higher than Postini's with
84% fewer false positives. Following the week-long test, The Tolly Group
concluded that Red Condor offers, "better anti-spam performance at
considerably less cost."
The Tolly Group's test showed that Red Condor's MAG2700 is more accurate
when it comes to delivering legitimate email. Red Condor generated only one
false positive in more than 190,700 inbound emails; whereas the Postini
Hosted Service generated one false positive in just 527 inbound emails. (A
false positive is defined as a good email classified as spam that is not
spam.)
The Tolly Group also found that the Red Condor MAG2700 had a spam detection
rate of 99.991%; whereas Postini's detection rate was only 95.397%. This
means that while Red Condor misclassified less than 0.01% of the total spam
emails, Postini misclassified more than 4.60%; indicating that Red Condor
is significantly more accurate stopping bad email and malicious content.
"The MAG2700's performance in head-to-head evaluations against the
industry-recognized leaders continues to validate the effectiveness of our
system and technology," said Dr. Thomas Steding, president and chief
executive officer of Red Condor.
"During the test, our spam filter outperformed Postini's, and our system
produced far fewer false positives. In addition, our MAG2700 one-year price
per mailbox is 85 percent less expensive than Postini's hosted service.
Combine Red Condor's exceptional performance with our price, ease of use,
worry-free management and around-the-clock support, and it's clear why so
many of our customers have migrated away from these other solutions."
Testing was conducted in accordance with the Tolly Common RFP #1058
"Anti-Spam Gateway v1.0." See CommonRFP.com for more details. The
MAG2700 was configured behind the corporate firewall and quarantine
features were enabled. Tolly network engineers modified their corporate
DNS servers to redirect all incoming email to the Postini servers for
analysis and filtering. The engineers also enabled the LDAP query feature
available on the Red Condor device to run recipient verification on The
Tolly Group's Active Directory server. Both platforms were tested using a
live e-mail stream of messages, and all inbound email messages were scanned
for possible spam.
To download the complete report, visit
http://www.redcondor.com/resources/reviews/tolly-report-google.pdf.
About Red Condor
Red Condor is revolutionizing spam fighting with its next generation
technology. Red Condor's highly accurate email 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.
About The Tolly Group
The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting
organization based in Boca Raton, FL, offers a full range of services
designed to furnish both the vendor and end-user communities with
authoritative and unbiased information. Additionally, The Tolly Group is
recognized worldwide for its expertise in assessing leading-edge
technologies. For more information on The Tolly Group's services, visit Tolly.com, e-mail info@tolly.com, call
1-561-391-5610, or fax 1-561-391-5810.