Why Firstwave?

Q: What could be better than an IronPort solution in your network?

A: A managed IronPort service from Firstwave!

Most people know by now that a Cisco IronPort appliance is the best Anti SPAM solution available today. In fact, Gartner lists Cisco IronPort as the leader in Anti SPAM.

One of the key advantages is IronPort’s reputation service which will block around 90% of SPAM at the front door. Most people believe that installing an IronPort appliance will reduce their link bandwidth and lead to reduced data usage.

However, what people don’t know is that every IronPort appliance in your network will automatically download about 1Gb of SPAM rule updates a day. You’d have to block more than 500,000 spam messages every day in a standard environment just to break even!

So that’s why we say the only thing better than an IronPort appliance in your network is a managed IronPort service from Firstwave.

In addition to the great capture SPAM rates from IronPort, the Firstwave managed email service offers:

• multiple, fully redundant scanning platforms with geographical diversity

• enhanced content filtering including detection of localised Australian content (eg. Medicare numbers, banking numbers and more)
• ability to replay messages up to 32 days old that you may have deleted accidentally
• online portal access with configuration, replay and reporting
• fully Australian–based service meaning that we don’t ship your emails off to other countries for processing