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RSA Security Selects RazorGate For Complete SMTP Port Protection
Endorsement by Leading High-Tech Security Company Reiterates Strength of Mirapoint’s Email Security Appliance

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 20, 2004 — Mirapoint® today announced that security expert RSA Security has deployed Mirapoint’s RazorGate 450 email security appliances to secure and protect more than 1,200 users on their existing Microsoft Exchange server. The RazorGate appliances provide a multi-layered approach to protect against hackers, viruses, spam, and other threats. This complete approach includes advanced management of message traffic through Mirapoint’s MailHurdle™ technology, policy enforcement tools, SMTP connection management, content filters, as well as detailed logging and reporting. The RazorGate 450, formerly branded as the Mirapoint Message Director MD450, is the flagship product in Mirapoint's complete family of email security appliances, which also includes the RazorGate 100 and RazorGate 300 appliances.

Prior to purchasing the RazorGate appliances, RSA Security utilized anti-virus software running on a general-purpose server platform located at the edge of their network. RSA Security quickly realized that a better all-encompassing security solution was needed to address spam, viruses, SMTP port security, and other emerging threats related to incoming and outgoing traffic. Additionally, the new solution had to be fully interoperable with RSA Security’s existing Exchange email servers. RSA Security evaluated a number of solutions but ultimately found Mirapoint’s RazorGate appliances offered a more industrial-strength solution to meet their complete email security requirements.

“Our previous software-only solution lacked many of the features that RSA Security required for complete SMTP port protection, as well as the built-in security hardening and ease-of-management that we found attractive in appliance-based solutions,” said Torsten Guttenberger, manager of IT tech services at RSA Security. “Only the RazorGate 450 offered the full spectrum of email security capabilities that we needed, including critical end-user controls for personalized spam and email management. In the end, Mirapoint’s maturity in product development and unique technology like MailHurdle, coupled with their long-term experience in messaging, made them the best fit for RSA Security.”

“RSA Security’s decision to standardize on Mirapoint is a direct endorsement of our approach and product strategy from one of the world’s leading security experts,” said Barry Ariko, CEO and Chairman of Mirapoint. “Customers are increasingly recognizing the value that Mirapoint appliances offer for complete email services and security protection.”

Complete Email Security; Only From Messaging Expert Mirapoint
Mirapoint is the only vendor in the industry with proven email server and security appliances for any size organization. Designed to complement any email server, Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, as well as provide advanced management of message traffic through policy enforcement tools, content filters, and detailed reporting. Mirapoint’s Message Server is the industry’s only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access, and management with Mirapoint’s comprehensive, multi-layered Full-Spectrum email security technology. The Message Server is designed to support any enterprise, service provider, government, or education customer trying to deliver email to a broad base of users that demand anytime, anywhere access to carrier-grade email services. Both the RazorGate email security appliances and the Message Server appliances are available with the MailHurdle and recently announced Rapid Anti-Spam™ technologies.

About Mirapoint
Mirapoint® is a leader in solutions for message networks used by service provider, enterprise, education and government institutions. Customers use Mirapoint solutions, including the RazorGate email security appliances, to build message networks that intelligently and securely route, store, access and manage Internet messages, including email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

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