ANN ARBOR – Merit Network has chosen Greenview Data’s
award-winning SpamStopsHere anti-spam solution to provide an
affordable and effective e-mail spam prevention option for its
members.
As a nonprofit organization, Merit provides more than 250,000 email
boxes to colleges, universities and K-12 public and private school
districts across the state of Michigan and the U.S. through its
MeritMail service. In addition to e-mail, MeritMail also includes
calendaring, instant messaging and document sharing solutions.
“We are thrilled to partner with Merit and offer their members one of
the most effective and accurate anti-spam solutions available,” said Ted
Green, president of Greenview Data. “I know that Merit has been a true
Internet pioneer since the 1980’s. Adding SpamStopsHere to its portfolio
of services will bolster that reputation and provide an easy and
affordable solution that will virtually eliminate the nuisance and
security risk associated with spam.”
Once just a nuisance, spam has now become a financial risk as spammers
seek to swindle their targets through phishing scams or bogus product
sales. The education industry is a prime target for spammers who see
legacy domains hosting huge communities of potentially affluent
faculties and staff, and students who conduct most of their shopping and
banking online.
“We needed an advanced spam and virus option that could provide the
advanced features and services our members require, but do it at an
affordable cost,” said Rob Golden, vice president of research and
development at Merit Network. “Greenview Data is very well-respected in
the community, and the addition of SpamStopsHere has allowed us to
provide our members a powerful new protection option.”
SpamStopsHere uniquely protects MeritMail members’ both incoming and
outgoing mail: not only does it filter and block the delivery of 99.9 percent
of spam to users’ mailboxes without blocking legitimate mail, but it
also thwarts the distribution of outgoing spam, which may occur as a
result of a botnet or otherwise corrupted machine.
“In the past, we’ve had whole colleges whose domains become blacklisted
and virtually shut down due to spam generated from a corrupted machine
on campus,” Golden said. “The fact that SpamStopsHere can prevent this
problem protects the continuity of their business operations, as well as
their reputation.”
SpamStopsHere is now available to all Merit members. A simple and easy
integration process makes the implementation virtually invisible to the
end user. Customized variables may be adjusted quickly and easily by
request for each institution.
“One of the reasons we chose Greenview Data is because implementation is
as simple as routing our member’s mail to their secure data centers
where it is immediately processed,” Golden said. “All we have to do is
redirect the mail through Greenview’s system and then back to us. The
cleaned-up mail arrives at the end-user’s inbox with virtually no delay,
and absolutely no spam.”
Recognized by Network Computing Magazine as the most accurate hosted
anti-spam solution available, SpamStopsHere blocks 99.9 percent of spam with
its unique databases of known spam and spammers (updated every minute)
without blocking business-critical emails. The system’s fully-managed,
hosted platform requires no installation or tuning, and virtually no
support or maintence from internal IT departments making it ideal for
organizations of all sizes.
For more information about SpamStopsHere and other Greenview Data
in-the-cloud e-mail solutions, including RestorEmail e-mail archiving
and compliance-quality e-mail encryption, click on click on GreenViewData.Com
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