Northshore School District Protects Staff with Roaring Penguin Software’s CanIt-PRO Anti-Spam Solution
CanIt-PRO protects K-12 district’s faculty and staff from spam and viruses.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) November 10, 2004 -– The Northshore School
District of Bothell, Washington, has chosen Roaring Penguin Software’s CanIt-PRO
solution to stop spam and viruses before they reach the district’s 3,500 e-mail
users.
Jon Wiederspan, the district’s Network Operations Manager, said,
“After seeing Roaring Penguin’s CanIt-PRO featured as one of the top solutions
in product reviews, we decided to evaluate it, and we were very pleased with the
results. CanIt-PRO is now stopping more than 60% of our incoming mail as spam
and our staff is relieved by the results.”
Previously, the district had
been using the mail filtering capabilities built into its mail server and had
considered building its own solution. Wiederspan adds, “RFC822 and realtime
blacklists were catching only about half of the spam that our users received,
and the porn ads that most disturb people were getting through. Building our own
solution was going to require more time and management than we had the resources
to support. CanIt-PRO provided us with everything we needed and it’s easy to
install, configure and manage over the web.”
Northshore School District
is also using the Clam AntiVirus software that is bundled with CanIt-PRO, and
reports that the solution has virtually eliminated e-mail-borne virus
attachments. CanIt-PRO is ideal for campuses, ISPs and large organizations where
global filtering policies must be balanced with individuals’ ability to have the
final decision over what is and is not spam.
CanIt™ products offer the
industry's most complete and flexible anti-spam and anti-virus solutions. They
can be deployed in any enterprise e-mail environment, including on all Linux and
UNIX servers. As a stand-alone gateway appliance, CanIt can protect e-mail
environments running non-UNIX servers, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes
and Novell Groupwise.
A trial version of CanIt or CanIt-PRO can be
obtained at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/anti_spam/get_canit_request.php.
About
Roaring Penguin
Founded in 1999, Roaring Penguin Software Inc., specializes
in e-mail filtering. The company focuses on fighting spam at the mail server,
with the acclaimed MIMEDefang and CanIt product lines. Today, Roaring Penguin
develops, deploys and supports its spam- and virus-fighting products for
customers that include campuses, ISPs, web hosts, government offices and large
enterprises. For more information visit www.roaringpenguin.com.
About Northshore School District
The Northshore School District is
located in the Seattle-Everett metropolitan area north and east of Lake
Washington and encompasses the cities of Bothell, Kenmore and Woodinville. The
district emphasizes a strong program in basic skills enhanced by offerings in
gifted, alternative, vocational/career education, and award-winning music and
art curricula. Special needs are met through integrated learning, Head Start,
and English-as-a-Second-Language programs. For more information visit www.nsd.org.
Contact Information:
Press: Maria Ford
Kaszas Communications
(613) 741-9484
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Sales: Paul
Wilson
Roaring Penguin Software
(613) 231-6599 x.103
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