West Vancouver, BC August 9, 2004 -- Bitspan Network Inc., a Canadian antispam technology developer, announced today that it has successfully
completed the development of its first antispam component. The component is
designed for rapid integration into virtually any mail filtering system and at
any level - The component can be positioned upstream or downstream of any
existing mail filtering solution. Additionally, the antispam functionalities of
the component are accessible from remote systems. The component utilizes
Bitspan’s patent pending FEST (Forensic Email Sequencing Technology), which can
be used for spam email identification and filtration of inbound emails with
amazing accuracy.
"FEST creates super-sensitive fingerprints that are
super accurate and as solid as DNA-evidence in a court of law and now, for the
first time, this time-honored approach is available for integration and usage in
various email filtering applications.” said Mr. Jelveh, CTO and Founder of
Bitspan Network Inc.
Bitspan is trying to address problems commonly
associated with email filtering solutions; the inability to completely filter
out spam (false negatives) and erroneous detection of legitimate email as spam
(false positive). The company’s patent pending approach promises zero false
positive and is aimed to significantly reduce false negatives.
“Every
mail filtering system has some kind of weakness and spammers and hackers have
sufficient incentives to find and exploit them. It is our firm belief that this
component can complement and strengthen any mail filtering solution.” said
Jelveh.
“Basically anyone that deals with email, in any setting and
format, can utilize this component” said Mr. Jelveh. The functionality of the
component can be invoked locally and/or remotely, making it ideal for use in
Firewalls, Message Transfer Agents (MTA), Mail Servers (SMTP), Anti-Spam
solutions, Anti-virus solutions, collaboration and email client applications.
Mr. Jelveh added: “… many companies stand to benefit from this technology for
the purposes of attaining better and more accurate mail filtering results for
themselves and their end-users.“
Bitspan is currently accepting
application from organizations that wish to participate in its beta program.
Those interested in participating in this program should contact Bitspan
Network’s Beta Partners Program at beta@bitspan.com.
About Bitspan Network
Bitspan Network Inc., a privately owned British Columbia, Canada
company, is a developer of state of the art antispam technologies. The company
plans to license its mail identification technologies for usage in conjunction
with major existing mail filtering technologies and products. Mail filtering
currently takes place at various levels in the pathway of email transmission,
including Message Transfer Agents (MTA) such as SendMail and IronPort, Mail
Servers (i.e. Microsoft’s (MSFT) Exchange Server, SendMail), Antispam Servers
for ISPs (i.e. Brightmail), Antispam Clients (Symantec’s (SYMC) Norton Antispam
2004, SpamKiller 5.0 by Network Associates (NA) and other mail filtering and
firewall (i.e. Ingate) appliances.
Visit http://www.bitspan.net for more information.
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