Rohnert Park, Calif., June 30, 2009 - Red Condor, the award-winning provider of fully managed email security solutions, today announced the results of a recent third-party head-to-head anti-spam effectiveness and feature comparison test between Red Condor Message Assurance Gateway 2700 (MAG2700) and Google Inc.’s Message Security powered by Postini. The test, which was conducted by The Tolly Group, found that the MAG2700’s spam detection rate was significantly higher than Postini’s with 84% fewer false positives. Following the week-long test, The Tolly Group concluded that Red Condor offers, “better anti-spam performance at considerably less cost.” The Tolly Group’s test showed that Red Condor’s MAG2700 is more accurate when it comes to delivering legitimate email. Red Condor generated only one false positive in more than 190,700 inbound emails; whereas the Postini Hosted Service generated one false positive in just 527 inbound emails. (A false positive is defined as a good email classified as spam that is not spam.) The

Tolly Group also found that the Red Condor MAG2700 had a spam detection rate of 99.991%; whereas Postini’s detection rate was only 95.397%. This means that while Red Condor misclassified less than 0.01% of the total spam emails, Postini misclassified more than 4.60%; indicating that Red Condor is significantly more accurate stopping bad email and malicious content. “The MAG2700’s performance in head-to-head evaluations against the industry-recognized leaders continues to validate the effectiveness of our system and technology,” said Dr. Thomas Steding, president and chief executive officer of Red Condor. “During the test, our spam filter outperformed Postini’s, and our system produced far fewer false positives. In addition, our MAG2700 one-year price per mailbox is 85 percent less expensive than Postini’s hosted service. Combine Red Condor’s exceptional performance with our price, ease of use, worry-free management and around-the-clock support, and it’s clear why so many…

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Red Condor Outperforms Google’s Message Security