| Vendor |
Vendor/product summary |
Sales model and target markets |
Anti-virus |
| Appliance based solutions |
| Borderware
Mxtreme |
2 way filtering, support for
remote email access, built in failover and replication |
Direct sales and partners, MX200
for small, MX400 and MX800 for mid-market and MX1000 for enterprises |
Kaspersky |
| CipherTrust
IronMail |
2 way filtering, supports remote
email access and can act as a proxy email server |
100% channel, 305 and 345 for
enterprises, S-Series for SMBs |
Sophos, McAfee |
| IronPort
C-Series |
2 way filtering based on
Brightmail and other in-house filters including their own bonded sender
white-list |
100% channel, C10 for small, C30
for mid-market, C60 for enterprises, good enterprise references |
Sophos on-board, others can be
integrated |
| Mirapoint
RazorGate |
2 way filtering, use Vipul's
Razor spam signatures and other techniques for detection |
100% channel, 100 for small, 300
for mid-market and 450 for enterprises and ISPs |
Sophos |
| Hosted services |
| BlackSpider
MailControl |
2 way filtering, British based
company, a lot of progress in the last 12 months, now looking to Europe |
100% channel, also works with
ISPs who re-brand MailControl, SMB to Enterprise |
McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky plus
their own Huntsman |
| Corpex
ArmourPlate |
In-bound spam-filtering,
UK/German ISP who launched this 1 year ago after developing it for their ISP
customers |
Direct sales with some partners,
SMB and ISP |
Sophos, F-Secure, Symantec,
Kaspersky, CyberSoft |
| FrontBridge
TrueProtect |
2 way email filtering a US based
company who launched in UK 1 year ago |
100% channel, cross market with
a focus on 2,000 plus seats |
Sophos, Symantec and Trend |
| MessageLabs
Email Security System |
2
way email filtering with an ant-porn option. British company with a global
presence |
Channel and direct plus IBM
partnership. Used widely by SMBs but some impressive enterprise and
government customers |
McAfee, F-Secure |
| Software based solutions |
| Aladdin
Knowledge Systems eSafe |
2 way filtering, either shipped
as licenced software or a Linux based virtual server, Israeli based vendor |
100%
channel fulfilment, some direct touch with large accounts, SMB to
enterprise |
Have their own anti-virus which
uses a sandbox approach |
| CA eTrust
Secure Content Manager |
2 way filtering, launched 1 year
ago |
100% channel, SMB to enterprise |
CA eTrust Anti-Virus |
| ClearSwift
MimeSweeper |
2 way filtering, supports
filtering of corporate and web mail, British based vendor |
100% channel for MimeSweeper
which is targeted at SMBs, also have an enterprise product sold directly |
Sophos, F-Secure, Symantec |
| CommTouch
Enterprise Gateway |
In
bound filtering, good at detecting high volume attacks, Israeli based
company. |
100% channel, relying in the UK
on their partnership with anti-virus vendor Sybari, SMB to enterprise |
Sybari |
| FutureSoft
Dynacom |
2 way email filtering |
100% channel plus appliance
partners, SMB |
Any can be used, none supplied |
| Kaspersky
Anti-Spam |
Kaspersky is an anti-virus
vendor who has only recently entered the spam-filtering market |
100% channel, SMB |
Kaspersky |
| Mayflower
SpamSentinel |
Lotus Notes/Domino client and
server-based solution, utilising hosted system for Spam checking |
Direct, SMB |
None |
| McAfee
SpamKiller |
In bound filtering, based on
SpamAssasin (open source) |
Mainly channel, SMB |
McAfee |
| NetIQ Mail
Marshall |
Two way email filtering |
Direct and channel, SMB |
Any can be used, none supplied |
| Sophos
PureMessage |
In-bound spam filtering with
limited outbound policy enforcement |
Mainly channel, some large
customers direct, mid-market and enterprise |
Sophos, Sybari |
| Surf
Control Ant--spam Agent |
UK based web filtering company
acquired us based ActiveState for spam-filtering in 2003 |
Direct and channel, growing
channel, SMB to Enterprise, education |
McAfee |
| Symantec
Brightmail Anti-Spam |
Symantec recently acquired
Brightmail, a leading software based spam-filtering company - can filter
outgoing email and but there is a separate product for policy enforcement |
Direct and channel, up to 50% of
their business comes from appliance, hosting and ISP partners, SMB to
Enterprise, |
Symantec |
| Trend
ScanMail and InterScan Messaging Security Suite |
Two
products, ScanMail for installation on Exchange or Lotus servers and
Interscan for SMTP gateways. Japanese based vendor. |
Mostly channel, a few direct
named accounts, SMB to Enterprise |
Trend |
| This list is by no means exhaustive, for more
information about any of these vendors or vendors not mentioned here please
contact Quocirca |
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