Sana Security Joins Messaging Anti-Abuse Group, Delivers Behavior-Based Technology to Combat Bots, Rootkits and Trojans

Business Wire, June 14, 2007

Ability to Detect, Stop and Remove Threats Makes Sana the Best Defense Against Online Threats, and the First Choice of ISPs, MSPs

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Sana Security, Inc., the leading behavioral security software company, has joined the global Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), an organization made up of network operators and vendors teaming to reduce spam and email abuse, for the purpose of providing the safest, most hassle-free Internet experience possible. ISPs and MSPs are overwhelmingly turning to Sana for protection against a variety of threats - including bots, worms and viruses - that not only threaten the security of email users, but consume large amounts of network bandwidth in doing so. Sana technology not only stops these threats, but removes them completely from the end user's machine.

Widely regarded as the most cohesive, effective organization for systematically addressing the explosion in messaging abuse, MAAWG now represents over half a billion mailboxes worldwide. The participating service providers and vendors, which include top names in the industry, cooperate in developing best practices to limit network access to spammers and in identifying new email threats. The organization also serves as the industry's voice on issues of public policy.

Hackers and spammers are getting ever more sophisticated and aggressive in their attempts to steal money and identities and wreak other havoc among email users or anyone else connected to the Internet. In contrast to earlier online threats, malware authoring has become a major criminal industry, costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The rate of such malicious activity, called "malware," has tripled for the past three years according to experts, and is projected to get worse, particularly as malware authors figure out new ways to confound traditional, signature-based security technologies.

"Organized criminals continue to flood our world with contaminated email whose sole purpose is to steal money and identities from unsuspecting, unprotected people," said Don Listwin, chairman and CEO of Sana Security. "Sana Security is fully committed to working with the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group and other groups to protect users against botnets, viruses and other threats from day one."

Sana takes a completely different, far more effective approach than traditional anti-virus software, detecting and removing bots, viruses and other computer threats before they cause harm to a user's computer. This approach deals with threats immediately, thus avoiding the vulnerability created by solutions that must wait for a signature update before detecting threats.

Sana's technology also relieves users of ordinary maintenance and administrative tasks while radically improving the security of their systems, ensuring the maximum effectiveness in eliminating malware threats without the need to obtain signature updates, run full system scans or perform other tasks.

About the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)

The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) is where the messaging industry comes together to work against spam, viruses, denial-of-service attacks and other online exploitation. MAAWG (www.maawg.org) is the only organization addressing messaging abuse holistically by systematically engaging all aspects of the problem, including technology, industry collaboration and public policy. It leverages the depth and experience of its global membership to tackle abuse on existing networks and new emerging services. Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., MAAWG is an open forum driven by market needs and supported by major network operators and messaging providers.

About Sana Security

Sana Security provides software that protects what others can't protect or see, providing immunity against threats, both known and unknown. Unlike reactive, legacy solutions that require updates, signatures and scanning, Sana's products offer enterprises, small businesses and consumers instant and constant protection against threats, increasingly complex attacks, data compromise and identity theft. Sana Security, together with its research organization Sana Labs, is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices in global business and technology centers. For more information, visit www.sanasecurity.com or contact the company by phone at 1 (650) 292-7100.