Avinti iSolation Server Keeps Utah Valley State College Faculty and Staff Safe from Fast-Moving Virus Outbreaks

Utah Valley State College (UVSC), located in Orem, Utah, has deployed Avinti's iSolation Server to increase the level of e-mail security for its 3,000 faculty and staff members. UVSC observed an immediate reduction in the number of viruses entering its e-mail system, with iSolation Server stopping six unknown viruses on the first day it was implemented and several more that would have entered the network in its first week of operation. It has also allowed UVSC to stop blocking e-mail attachments, thereby improving the user experience.

"When we started using iSolation Server in October, we didn't know how many viruses were getting through -- it was a wake-up call," said Brett McKeachnie, director of infrastructure operations at Utah Valley State College. "The iSolation Server reduced the severity of virus 'storms' and improved the performance of our e-mail system. After a week we decided we couldn't do without it and we now have much more confidence in our e-mail system."

Utah Valley State College has 3,000 faculty and staff e-mail users, with an average daily e-mail volume of 50,000-100,000 messages. The information technology department was looking for a way to reduce the slowdowns caused by virus "storms," when servers would be inundated by virus-laden e-mails and server performance would suffer. In addition, the school was blocking six types of e-mail attachments that were problematic, including .dll files. That presented a problem, because students in the computer science department would often send professors their assignments (mainly executable programs they had written) via e-mail as .dll files. UVSC was an early beta tester of iSolation Server and found that the technology solved the problems its e-mail users were facing.

"Using attachments is important to our business and users were frustrated that some attachment types were being blocked," continued McKeachnie. "If a student's homework didn't get to his professor because it got caught in an e- mail filter, both the student and the teacher were upset. Using iSolation Server has meant we can allow those attachments through the system because we're sure they are not carrying a virus."

Avinti iSolation Server is the first e-mail outbreak protection solution using virtual machine technology to test for actual behavior in an e-mail and identify viruses for which there is no known pattern or signature. Using patent-pending technology, the iSolation Server monitors the behavior of an e- mail in a secure, virtual environment, thereby positively identifying the actual behavior malicious code demonstrates before delivery to the target workstation and eliminating false positives. ISolation Server does not require antivirus signatures like traditional security products, nor does it rely on guessing like heuristic-based security offerings, in order to identify an e- mail threat. No other solution comes close to the level of consistent success in stopping new and unknown threats delivered via e-mail.

Avinti's iSolation Server is best implemented as part of a layered e-mail security strategy and integrates with antivirus, anti-spam and anti-spyware solutions from other security vendors. Utah Valley State College uses Novell GroupWise® for its faculty and staff e-mail system. ISolation Server is working in conjunction with Guinevere, a GroupWare-specific antivirus solution, and SpamAssassin's anti-spam technology.

About Avinti Inc.

Founded in 2002, Avinti Inc. is a leader in e-mail outbreak protection that enables organizations and individuals to safely use e-mail as a critical communications tool without fear of malicious, costly attacks. Avinti's iSolation Server is the first e-mail security solution to close the window of vulnerability from unknown threats by using virtual machine technology and viewing the intended behavior of e-mail attachments to determine a message's threat potential. ISolation Server works with existing anti-virus and e-mail security solutions in a layered security approach that eliminates e-mail viruses from corporate e-mail systems. For additional information, contact Avinti at 801-443-3200 or visit www.avinti.com.




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