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Why DakotaPro SpamGuard?

Multi-Layer Protection from One Service

In addition to spam filtering, SpamGuard also filters viruses, spyware, phishing schemes, and Trojans. We also help protect your network systems from overwhelming attacks such as denial of service and directory harvest attacks.

Zero Tolerance for False Positives

SpamGuard has a strict policy that guides all its filtering processes: a filter rule will not be implemented if it results in even one good email being discarded. There is no probabilistic guessing or statistical heuristics in the SpamGuard system, only absolute criteria that leads to a definitive action. SpamGuard.s proven technology tracks evolving spam campaigns in real-time with near-zero false-positive rates while achieving block rates over 98%.

Email Behavioral Profiling

In addition to filtering email based on content and keywords, SpamGuard analyzes emails behavior to further determine whether a message is legitimate mail or spam. Simply put, if email has the intent to deceive, defraud, or otherwise misrepresent itself, it is eliminated. With a single set of behavior-based filter rules, it meets the needs of a diverse set of customers - from pre-schools to fertility clinics - without making mistakes.

Unique Spam Filtering Technology

SpamGuard does not use unreliable heuristics, DNS blacklists, or Bayesian filters to identify spam. Instead, it investigates email messages, applying uniform standards before crafting the precise rules that block just the spam, not your important email correspondence.

Fail-safe operation

All of our network appliances use a revolutionary technology to provide fault-tolerant fail-safe operation. If your system goes down due to overwhelming attacks, power failure or other network issues, email protection is automatically re-directed to our back-up servers so you get uninterrupted protection and security.

Perimeter Defense System

Instead of installing software and allowing threats into your network and desktops, SpamGuard acts as a perimeter defense in front of your email server. We take and screen the emails before they get to you. This protects you and ensures that no malicious content corrupts your servers.

Human in the Loop

Some companies rely only on software to detect new types of spam. At SpamGuard, we utilize the skill of email experts in addition to our cutting-edge technology. We feel that the addition of human intelligence is one of the best ways to beat spammers at their own game. When spammers adopt a new technique, SpamGuard is able to accurately and rapidly adapt.

SpamGuard Offers Zero Administration

SpamGuard is easy-to-use and self-configuring. There is absolutely nothing to install, upgrade, or maintain. And your existing mail user agents, such as Microsoft Outlook or Netscape Messenger, continue to send and receive mail without any changes. After creating an account at SpamGuard, you will receive an email with instructions for configuring your mail exchanger (MX) records. Your IT administrator should be able to make these changes in a few minutes. If you have any questions, you can contact a SpamGuard Technical Support Engineer at Support@DakotaPro.biz.

Email Policy Management at Your Fingertips

Normally there is no need to administer your spam settings, but when you first signup, you may wish to visit your web dashboard to set your email policy to match your internal email policy or personal preferences.

Web Dashboard

The SpamGuard Dashboard provides administrators and mailbox owners with an easy to use console for managing the SpamGuard service. Administrators set email filtering policy and reporting frequency for the domain and mailbox level. Everything else is taken care of as part of the SpamGuard Managed Service.

Spam Digest

A Spam Digest is an emailed version of the Quarantine page that allows each mailbox owner to review and release spam. The digest delivery frequency can be set to Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Never. By default, the frequency is set to Never. Users do not need to report spam or develop rules to block it. Your spam problem simply disappears.

The SpamGuard Difference - Compare Us to the "Other Guys"

The important difference in SpamGuard's approach to fighting spam and viruses is also in how we are different in our technology and techniques. The other market leaders frequently rely on the more common first and second generation of spam filtering and blocking techniques. Unfortunately, spammers have already bypassed many of these processes.

Fixed Keyword & Phrase Filtering

This technique can be ineffective because it relies on user configuration and training. The ease of scripting tools available to spammers makes unique message-by-message randomization prevalent for most spam. 0ne we11 kn0wn te6hnlque RElies 0n m1xing certain Ch@RAct3rs 0n a rand0m bASiS. Keyword blocking does little to keep up with these now simple techniques, letting the messages through unblocked.

Heuristic Scoring & Bayesian Filtering

Increasingly, message-by-message unique randomization techniques make both Bayesian and heuristic-based filtering techniques almost entirely ineffective. Attempts to leverage these filtering techniques push the administration of such solutions on to the end users. This not only wastes valuable time, but results in poor block rates or high false identification of good, valid messages (aka, false-positives).

DNS Real-Time Blacklists (RBLs)

One of the most significant causes of false-positives, or good email that.s accidentally discarded. Each day globally there are estimated to be 200,000 new Zombie and Bot ("robot") networks, (e.g., spammer corrupted and controlled Personal Computers that are sending out the latest spam campaigns). That means there are millions of such corrupted networked PCs at any given time. Because there are so many moving parts, fixed blacklist can quickly become ineffective. Systems that rely too heavily on this technique in their filtering can also have a high rate of false-positives.

Conclusion: SpamGuard's Messaging Assurance Gateway is Superior

SpamGuard's state-of-the-art email security eliminates spam, and protects against viruses, spyware, phishing schemes, identity theft, and other dangerous or undesirable content. We ensure that important emails get through without being incorrectly blocked. SpamGuard's sophisticated intrusion detection and defense systems also protect email servers and networks from external threats such as denial of service and directory harvest attacks.

Exceptional Performance - Effortless Control

  • Fully managed solution
  • Next generation filter algorithms
  • SMTP Session level defense against directory harvest and denial of service attacks
  • Failover resiliency
  • Email disaster recovery
  • "Human-in-the-Loop review"
  • 24 x 7 x 365 customer support - we never close!

  • SpamGuard protects your network, restores productivity, and lowers costs for just pennies per day per mailbox. Try a 30-day risk-free trial. SpamGuard welcomes the opportunity to demonstrate how effective our solution is.

    DakotaPro SpamGuard manages highly resilient email security systems for your benefit. SpamGuard's email security eliminates spam, viruses, spyware, phishing schemes and other offensive content, with perimeter defense against denial-of-service and directory harvest attacks. SpamGuard leverages up-to-the-minute security threat information from its worldwide sensor network, and then applies defensive measures in real time. The system's design has built-in zero tolerance for lost email, resulting in a less than 0.01% false-positive rate while achieving long-term spam block rates greater than 98%. This next generation technology is backed by a 24x7 customer care center staffed by email security experts at SpamGuard's Technical Assistance Center (TAC).

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