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GajShield Infotech launches SpamGaj Mail Appliance, a scalable anti-spam, anti-virus and mail appliance product line.

Mumbai, April 1 2005 The SpamGaj Mail Appliance provides businesses with an enterprise-class spam and virus protection solution, which is easy to use and affordable. SpamGaj Mail Appliance offers in-depth anti-spam and anti-virus defense at the network perimeter and maximizes messaging performance. The SpamGaj Mail Appliance is automatically updated round the clock to block new spams and viruses.

Spams, viruses, spy ware are spreading causing serious security challenge to companies of all sizes. It is estimated that more than 60 percent of corporate emails are spams which also contains viruses, spy wares and other attacks. It has become important for organizations of all sizes to develop a sustainable email security policy and towards this end we have created a powerful solution that is easy to implement and maintain says Anand Iyer.

The SpamGaj Mail Appliance is a high performance appliance capable of supporting more 500 users and 500,000 mails per day. This makes it an important arsenal in the email security strategy of small to medium enterprises.

Its architecture leverages defense layers such as denial of service and security protection, Domain White Lists, Black Lists, Automated White Lists, Distributed Black Lists & Spam Fingerprints, Heuristic Scanning, Statistical Classification Engine, Checksum Clearing House, Collaborative Spam Prevention effort & Authenticated Mail This architecture minimizes the processing of each email, which yields the performance required to process millions of messages per day. Unlike other solutions, SpamGaj Anti-Spam solution reduces the load placed on the email server by off-loading both spam and virus filtering.

The SpamGaj Mail Appliance is available in the following modes of operation

1) Gateway Mode : The SpamGaj Mail Appliance is placed in front of existing mail servers like Lotus Notes, MS Exchange, Novel Groupware or Linux. The mails are received by the SpamGaj Mail Appliance and then routed to the existing mail servers after checking for spams and viruses.
2) Server Mode : The SpamGaj Mail Appliance is used as the Mail Server offering features like IMAP, POP3, Web Mail and Global Address List in addition to spam and virus filtering.

Availability : Currently SpamGaj Appliances are available immediately in Mumbai and Delhi.

About GajShield: GajShield provides innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for enterprises, service providers, government organizations, and resellers and their customers. Deployed as a managed service or on-premise software, the company's feature-rich solution suite is the industry's most comprehensive, flexible and easy to use.

GajShield also provides Integrated Network Security Appliance that includes Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System, Gateway Virus Screening, Virtual Private Network, Content Filtering and Bandwidth Management.
For more information, call 91 22 56607450 or visit www.gajshield.com