Technology Up Close

We’re extremely proud of our technology. It’s what sets us apart from our competition. Red Condor has developed a comprehensive suite of proprietary and patent-pending technology that is the engine for all our products. Award-winning technology like no other.

Multi-Layered Defense System:
Red Condor provides a comprehensive multi-layered defensive strategy to provide the utmost in network protection and removal of email threats. Incoming email must pass through successive layers of SMTP session level defenses, content analysis, virus detection, sender profiling, and other filtering before reaching the recipient’s email inbox. Each defensive layer removes a specific category of threat, resulting in our industry-leading rate for blocking unsafe emails.

Zero Minute Defense:
Spammers and hackers are always figuring out new ways to circumvent existing filters and other defenses so that they can continue to profit from their predatory activities. In order to combat the ever-changing nature of the problem, we have developed Red Condor’s Zero Minute Defense Network. Real-time knowledge gathered from this worldwide sensor network is used to create new detection and protection rules, which are then sent out as updates on a continuous basis. Both our Hosted Service and MAG-series devices receive these automatic updates continuously, making sure your email protection is always up-to-date. It’s the speed of rule execution, the number of those rules and the breadth of those rules that makes our performance so stellar.

Fault-Tolerant Vx Technology™:
Our MAG-series network appliances can include Red Condor’s revolutionary Vx Technology™ to provide fault-tolerant dependability that protects all incoming email traffic. With Vx Technology, if any MAG-series device fails or goes off-line due to unexpected problems such as overwhelming attack, network issues or local power failure, all your incoming email is immediately re-directed to our Hosted Service center so that your email remains protected without interruption. It makes our appliance a true hybrid.

Perimeter Defense:
We not only protect your email, we protect your network as well. Red Condor’s Adaptive Threat Detection™ technology provides perimeter protection from network-based threats such as Denial of Service and Directory Harvest attacks. The Adaptive Threat Detection™ Perimeter Defense system uses merit-based reputation analysis of IP addresses, senders, and recipients to identify and thwart the most abusive email attacks and block most spam campaigns before they ever enter your network. It’s like having a defensive shield around your network that blocks problems before they ever get to your network, in contrast to other solutions that let hazards into your network and then depend on client or server software to deal with the problems once they get through.

Email Behavioral Analysis:
Our behavior-analysis system observes inbound and outbound network traffic to spot unusual behavior patterns. Any suspicious behavior is then reported to Red Condor’s Security Operations Center, which implements appropriate response techniques to throttle, monitor, or intercept the behavior across all Red Condor protected email systems.

Sender Reputation Scoring:
Red Condor creates a merit-based reputation score for each email sender based on both sender history and message characteristics. When determining a sender’s reputation score we evaluate factors such as whether or not the sender has previously sent email, how much of that mail was received, an analysis of the sender’s email history, and a behavioral analysis of whether that sender’s email behaves like spam. Red Condor then uses this real-time reputation score to regulate email from each sender. In many cases, Red Condor can block the majority of spam or other undesirable email based on sender reputation data.

Email DNA Analysis:
Red Condor’s proprietary Email DNA analysis technology identifies unique characteristics of email that indicate spam, phishing schemes, and other forms of dangerous or objectionable content with near-certainty. Incoming email is then checked against the Email DNA database to remove any emails that contain matching Email DNA. This provides a much more accurate way to identify any problem emails than traditional techniques such as heuristics and Bayesian-based spam filters.

Spam Trigger:
Specific campaign monitoring techniques that quickly identifies spam and phishing campaigns before they penetrate users’ networks. Suspicious campaigns are put on probation until a filter rule can be written to capture messages from the campaign. During the probationary period, messages referring to the suspicious campaign are quarantined.

False Positive Prevention:
Many spam filtering products boost the percentage of spam they block by using imprecise and over-aggressive techniques that create a large number of false positives, preventing legitimate email from being delivered. Not Red Condor. Our superior technology allows us to not only correctly identify spam, but also correctly identify legitimate emails to make sure you don’t miss an important email because it gets blocked or wrongly placed in your junk folder. Before any new rule or filter is deployed it is regression tested against a constantly evolving set of ‘good email’ to make sure that it does not create even a single false-positive. If it does, we rewrite the rule until it is perfect. As a result, our false-positive rate leads the industry at less than 1 in 190,000.

False Positive Miner:
The Miner combs through quarantined messages looking for potential false positives (FPs). The FP's are reported to the RCI system for inspection and possible release of the message and deactivation of the rule that caught the message. The Miner allows for the detection of FP's before they affect users and the fixing of overly aggressive rules as soon as possible.

Multi-Pass Virus and Malware Protection:
In order to provide the best possible protection from email-borne viruses, we use multiple anti-virus engines to detect and remove viruses, spyware, trojans, or other malware from your email. In addition, Red Condor’s Zero-Hour Defense system continuously scans for new and emerging virus strains and other malware.

Advanced Image Filtering:
Spammers often use images in their emails to try and avoid spam filters. Unlike other spam solutions, Red Condor does not rely on OCR or other simple image fingerprinting technologies. Our Advanced Image Filtering technology includes both comprehensive image analysis as well as dynamic feedback of the message content. We filter both externally-linked images and attached images, and use sophisticated techniques such as color filtering, de-speckling, scanning of individual frames in GIF animations, pixel pattern filtering, and text image filtering.

Zombie Harvester:
In addition to protecting your inbound email, we also protect your outbound traffic to identify computers that has been surreptitiously converted to a “zombie” or “bot net” clients. Many spammers use viruses, trojans, fake software downloads, and other tactics to create a network of infected client computers that are then used for sending out spam without the user’s knowledge. These zombies can then lead to your network being black-listed by other spam filters, preventing legitimate email sent by anyone on your network from reaching its intended recipient. For appliances, Red Condor can block this outbound spam and malicious email and then notify your network administrator so that any zombie computers can be identified and treated for the underlying infection.

24x7x365 Security Operations Center:
Our technology, services, and products are all supported by our 24x7 Security Operations Center that constantly monitors all network activity to search for new email threats. The Security Operations Center gathers and consolidates data from the Red Condor Global Threat Assessment Network, behavior-analysis system, and Adaptive Threat Detection Perimeter Defense system. Our system is designed with a “Human in the Loop” philosophy that adds the power of human intelligence to our comprehensive array of technology. When a new threat emerges our technical experts can immediately respond, ensuring continuous ongoing deployment of new filters and rules.

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