Tumbleweed Press Releases
Leading Law Firm Lowenstein Sandler PC Chooses Tumbleweed's email Firewall To Fight Spam
Law Firm Adds Tumbleweed Dynamic Anti-spam Service™ to email Firewall for Integrated Spam Blocking, Virus Scanning and email Encryption
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - October 14, 2003 - Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading provider of mission-critical communication solutions for businesses and government agencies using the Internet, announced today that law firm Lowenstein Sandler PC has deployed Tumbleweed's Dynamic Anti-Spam Service™ (DAS) to their existing Tumbleweed email firewall infrastructure, resulting in a 90% reduction in spam.
Lowenstein Sandler PC is New Jersey's premier law firm, with more than 220 attorneys working out of 5 different offices in New Jersey and New York. They began looking for a spam service when evolving spammer techniques began to overload their IT infrastructure. By deploying Tumbleweed's Dynamic Anti-Spam Service to their existing email firewall infrastructure, they have been able to significantly reduce the volume of spam seen by their attorneys, without the risk of losing critical business messages from their clients.
"Spam represents approximately 25% of our total email volume during the week and rises to 70% during the weekend," said Todd Corham, Director of Informations Systems and Technology for Lowenstein Sandler."After we implemented Tumbleweed's Dynamic Anti-Spam Service, our attorneys told us they saw a marked reduction in the amount of spam received. As a service organization for the firm, the IT department is always striving to minimize the time that employees spend on issues like spam, and the DAS service helps us achieve that."
Corham went on to say that the firm has seen very little legitimate email filtered out."We quarantine an average of 3,000 emails per day," he reported. "With Tumbleweed's email firewall we have the option of reviewing emails that were diverted to our quarantine queue to eliminate the possibility of lost email communications."
"Fighting Spam continues to be a problem as firms face the legal liability, network congestion, productivity issues, and cost implications of managing spam, said Dave Jevans, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Tumbleweed Communications. "Firms like Lowenstein Sandler are winning the spam battle by proactively installing our Dynamic Anti-Spam Service."
About Tumbleweed's Dynamic Anti-Spam Service:
The Tumbleweed Dynamic Anti-spam Service (DAS) is rated as the top anti-spam software and appliance for large enterprises by Network World magazine, and the product is currently used to block over 32 million spam messages per day on behalf of our customers. DAS is an Internet-based subscription service that updates the Tumbleweed MMS email firewall with new heuristic defenses as they are published, similar to the way anti-virus engines work. The email firewall includes a highly effective Spam Analysis Engine, which automates the identification of spam using powerful heuristics-based analysis technology; typical customers see an immediate 90%+ capture rate with one-tenth of one percent false positive rate before tuning.
Tumbleweed's Message Protection Lab develops and publishes the heuristic updates: the Lab is staffed by experts who continually analyze spam to identify new spammer trends and tactics, and create and publish new heuristics to stop them. The Lab analyzes both spam and legitimate email gathered internationally and provided by enterprise customers, to ensure that the Dynamic Anti-spam Service minimizes false positives in a business environment.
About Tumbleweed's MMS Email Firewall:
The Tumbleweed MMS™email firewall is rated by Information Security Magazine as the #1 email firewall software for large enterprises, and is currently in use at over 400 of the largest, most demanding messaging infrastructures in the world. Tumbleweed MMS is an enterprise-class email firewall for protecting, filtering and securing email traffic at the Internet gateway. MMS manages the organization's mission-critical email stream with an integrated set of anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-hacker, content filtering, email relay, and encrypted messaging capabilities - minimizing email communications risks and reducing email management costs.
Organizations use MMS to protect their networks from hacker, virus and spam threats; comply with email regulations (SEC, NASD, HIPAA, GLB, FDA); enforce email communications and security policies; and securely communicate with customers, partners and suppliers. Tumbleweed MMS complements and works seamlessly with corporate email servers such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Novell Groupwise and a variety of UNIX-based email servers. The product is available as both a software package for larger companies, or as an appliance that provides enterprise level protection and management capabilities to small and mid-sized companies.
About Lowenstein Sandler PC
Lowenstein Sandler, New Jersey's second largest law firm with more than 220 attorneys is included among the AmLaw 200 largest domestic law firms. The firm was recently recognized as "New Jersey's premier law firm" and ranked first overall by the Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers. With offices in Roseland, Somerville, and Princeton, New Jersey, and New York, the firm provides a full range of legal services to business and industry. More information about Lowenstein Sandler PC is available on the World Wide Web at www.lowenstein.com.
About Tumbleweed Communications Corp.
Tumbleweed is a leading provider of mission-critical Internet communications software products for enterprises, financial services organizations and government. By making Internet communications secure, reliable and automated, Tumbleweed's email firewall, secure file transfer, secure email, and identity validation solutions help customers significantly reduce the cost of doing business. Tumbleweed products are used millions of end-users and tens of thousands of corporations. Tumbleweed customers include ABN Amro, Bank of America Securities, Catholic Healthcare West, JP Morgan Chase & Co., The Regence Group (Blue Cross/Blue Shield), Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), St. Luke's Episcopal Healthcare System, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the US Navy and Marine Corps. Tumbleweed Communications was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. For additional information about Tumbleweed go to www.tumbleweed.com or call 650-216-2000.
Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on current plans and expectations, and that a number of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from the guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the safe harbor statement below.
Safe Harbor Statement
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to Tumbleweed's financial outlook and projections (including its ability to achieve pro forma operating profitability in the fourth quarter of 2003), Tumbleweed's markets, products, and services, and the future success of Tumbleweed. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed's Form 10-K filed June 4, 2003, Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2003, and Form S-3/A filed September 18, 2003.
Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release, including for example its guidance regarding its future performance, which represents the Company's expectations only as of the date of this release and should not be viewed as a statement about the Company's expectations after such date. Although this release may remain available on the Company's website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that the Company is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein.
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