Mirapoint
An OEM partner success story
Mirapoint is a global leader in the mail server appliance market—managing
large enterprises, service providers, educational institutions and government
entities. The mail server appliances and messaging appliances intelligently
Customer at a glance
serve, secure and manage more than 120 million mailboxes worldwide.
After almost 10 years of experience with Sophos securing its customers against
viruses, spyware and other malware, Mirapoint chose Sophos anti-spam
solutions to improve spam and phishing protection for users.
Location:
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Headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California
Sophos solutions
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Sophos Anti-Virus
Interface
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Sophos Anti-Spam
Interface
Positive business outcomes
Business challenge
Mirapoint, a global leader in the mail server appliance market, was founded
in Sunnyvale, CA in 1997. Its customers include small to medium businesses,
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Significant spam capture
rate improvement with
fewer false positives
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Significant and improved
protection against
phishing
plus some larger enterprises and ISPs. Its email solutions are built on top of
Mirapoint’s RazorGate Messaging Security Appliances, which offer security
services, such as anti-spam, anti-virus, policy enforcement, storage and
archiving.
Number of mailboxes
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120 million worldwide
By combining email security expertise with extensive messaging appliance
experience, Mirapoint offers the industry’s only integrated email security,
archiving and mailbox appliances with a dramatically lower total cost of
ownership (TCO), as well as security, simplicity and peace of mind. It is
essential that Mirapoint’s customers are secured against threats from malware
and unwanted messages.
Mirapoint—An OEM partner success story
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Mirapoint
An OEM partner success story
In early 2001, Mirapoint decided to find an OEM antivirus supplier that could provide fast and timely updates
along with excellent support. According to Jenko Hwong,
director of product management at Mirapoint, “we
evaluated the top anti-virus products and found that
Sophos offered us the speed and flexibility that others
did not.” Mirapoint chose Sophos Ant-Virus Interface,
“With the Sophos solution, we were
able to improve significantly the
spam capture rate with far fewer
false positives and the transition was
completely invisible to our users.”
which enables high-speed integration with the Sophos
virus detection engine. Since then, Sophos has been its
Automated tuning technology in the Sophos
preferred anti-virus solution.
anti-spam engine constantly balances a range of
detection techniques to prevent protection failures,
And when its spam content analysis solution lagged in
and new spam rules are automatically received from
accuracy and performance, Mirapoint knew it was time
SophosLabs™, a global network of threat analysis
to evaluate other solutions.
centers. Sophos’ anti-virus and anti-spam solutions both
use Behavioral Genotype technology to block families
Mirapoint not only needed a solution that could block
of viruses, spam, and phishing campaigns, protecting
and quarantine a significantly higher proportion of
against previously unseen threats even before specific
spam, but also was easy to manage and support. It also
detection is available.
required an engine that doesn’t slow down the overall
throughput of the RazorGate security appliances.
How Sophos helped
Mirapoint’s IT department was already impressed with
its ongoing working relationship with Sophos, so it made
sure that the Sophos anti-spam engine was evaluated.
The department ran all products through real-world
testing, looking at spam on the company’s network for
about a month, and analyzed the data. Hwong says, “the
Sophos solution had the highest capture rate for any
given false positive rate. That fact, along with almost 10
years of exceptional partnership, won the business for
Sophos.”
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Mirapoint
An OEM partner success story
Positive business outcomes
One unexpected benefit that Mirapoint discovered while
In the 10 years it has used Sophos anti-virus technology,
testing the Sophos anti-spam engine involved the URL
Mirapoint has progressively changed the way it handles
checking feature which significantly improved protection
email, providing its customers with an improved email
against phishing attacks.
experience. Hwong explains, “instead of distracting
users with alerts about viruses we have found, Sophos’s
Hwong concludes, “having such a strategic relationship
virus detection engine is fast enough for us to be able
with Sophos will enable us to better manage and
to decline connections at the email server level if viral
negotiate deals and pricing, and will allow us to leverage
content is detected. All our users see is virus-free email,
Sophos’s reputation in the anti-virus market. Our
and we can process messages much faster.”
customers expect the best, and so do we—that’s why we
have chosen Sophos as our technology partner.”
“Having such a strategic relationship with
Sophos will enable us to better manage
and negotiate deals and pricing, and will
allow us to leverage Sophos’s reputation
in the anti-virus market. Our customers
expect the best, and so do we—that’s why
we have chosen Sophos as our technology
partner.”
He adds, “the recent integration of Sophos anti-spam
technology has provided similar efficiency gains. With the
Sophos solution, we were able to improve significantly
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the spam capture rate with far fewer false positives and
the transition was completely invisible to our users.”
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Mirapoint—An OEM partner success story
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