Hosted Filter Stops Malicious Email Before It Reaches Corporate Networks

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Abaca® Technology Corporation, developer of the world's most accurate spam filter, today announced that its new cloud mail filter service offering is guaranteed to block 99 percent of spam.

The need for a mail filter paradigm shift has risen due to a new breed of well-financed attackers exploiting the vulnerabilities of email. These advanced hackers have taken spam from a nuisance and productivity drain to a serious security threat. Gartner recently reported that this new era of malicious spam created a requirement for advanced technologies to be developed to catch the critical last .5 percent of spam.

Abaca's proven message rating engine currently helps catch more than 130 billion spam emails every month for Yahoo!, one of the world's largest email providers.  Abaca technology excels where outdated and more conventional systems fail—preventing the last one percent of spam that contains difficult to discover targeted threats.

Abaca's Cloud Mail Filter is a technology leap for anti-spam technology and email defense.  Unlike conventional solutions, email users can stay ahead of attackers by sidestepping older approaches such as volume-based reputation filters and signature-based content filters.

Users can deploy the Abaca service instantly without any hardware or software installation. As a primary anti-spam solution, Abaca blocks spam in the cloud before it ever contaminates users' networks.

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Steve Kirsch, CEO of Abaca said:

"Abaca delivers unmatched spam catch rates without losing good mail. Abaca's Cloud self-tuning filter combines our patented Receiver Reputation algorithm with real time threat intelligence and user feedback to very accurately determine if a message is ham or spam."

Michael Osterman, principal of Osterman Research said:

"A lot of decision makers in organizations of all sizes believe the spam problem has been solved - they're wrong. In fact, spam and phishing are more of a threat than ever because of their ability to deliver malware directly into an organization's network, creating the potential for enormous loss of funds, data and intellectual property. Every organization is vulnerable and needs to have a highly effective anti-spam solution in place."

Some of the key Abaca advantages:

• Abaca blocks 99 percent of spam, guaranteed. Conventional solutions allow up to 5 percent of dangerous or unwanted mail to enter your network.
• Abaca prevents the loss of valuable messages. Unlike conventional solutions, the Abaca service highlights potentially useful mail and notifies users.
• The Abaca filter becomes more accurate with each message it processes, whereas competitive spam filters degrade over time.
• The revolutionary patented Abaca engine learns which emails individuals want to receive, overcoming the limitation of conventional systems that apply one set of rules to all users.

About Abaca Technology Corporation

Abaca Technology Corporation, a Steve Kirsch company, has developed and marketed the world's most accurate spam filter. Since 2007, Abaca's patented ReceiverNet's cloud reputations have delivered unprecedented accuracy and instant response. Abaca's advanced mail filtering technology is available as a cloud service, gateway server and as a VMware-ready virtual appliance. Abaca enables SMBs, enterprises, large email service providers, colleges and universities to keep spam out of their inbox the way Yahoo! does. Abaca is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information about Abaca, please visit www.abaca.com.

SOURCE Abaca Technology Corporation