Northshore School District Protects Staff with Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt-PRO Anti-Spam Solution

Business Wire, Nov 9, 2004

OTTAWA -- CanIt-PRO protects K-12 district's faculty and staff from spam and viruses.

The Northshore School District of Bothell, Washington, has chosen Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt-PRO solution to stop spam and viruses before they reach the district's 3,500 e-mail users.

Jon Wiederspan, the district's Network Operations Manager, said, "After seeing Roaring Penguin's CanIt-PRO featured as one of the top solutions in product reviews, we decided to evaluate it, and we were very pleased with the results. CanIt-PRO is now stopping more than 60% of our incoming mail as spam and our staff is relieved by the results."

Previously, the district had been using the mail filtering capabilities built into its mail server and had considered building its own solution. Wiederspan adds, "RFC822 and realtime blacklists were catching only about half of the spam that our users received, and the porn ads that most disturb people were getting through. Building our own solution was going to require more time and management than we had the resources to support. CanIt-PRO provided us with everything we needed and it's easy to install, configure and manage over the web."

Northshore School District is also using the Clam AntiVirus software that is bundled with CanIt-PRO, and reports that the solution has virtually eliminated e-mail-borne virus attachments.

CanIt-PRO is ideal for campuses, ISPs and large organizations where global filtering policies must be balanced with individuals' ability to have the final decision over what is and is not spam. CanIt(TM) products offer the industry's most complete and flexible anti-spam and anti-virus solutions. They can be deployed in any enterprise e-mail environment, including on all Linux and UNIX servers. As a stand-alone gateway appliance, CanIt can protect e-mail environments running non-UNIX servers, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and Novell Groupwise.

A trial version of CanIt or CanIt-PRO can be obtained at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/anti_spam/get_canit_request.php.

About Roaring Penguin

Founded in 1999, Roaring Penguin Software Inc., specializes in e-mail filtering. The company focuses on fighting spam at the mail server, with the acclaimed MIMEDefang and CanIt product lines. Today, Roaring Penguin develops, deploys and supports its spam- and virus-fighting products for customers that include campuses, ISPs, web hosts, government offices and large enterprises. For more information visit www.roaringpenguin.com.

About Northshore School District

The Northshore School District is located in the Seattle-Everett metropolitan area north and east of Lake Washington and encompasses the cities of Bothell, Kenmore and Woodinville. The district emphasizes a strong program in basic skills enhanced by offerings in gifted, alternative, vocational/career education, and award-winning music and art curricula. Special needs are met through integrated learning, Head Start, and English-as-a-Second-Language programs. For more information visit www.nsd.org.