12-2000
AsyncOS™
IronPort's breakthrough operating system is born. AsyncOS'
file system, threading module and scheduler are optimized for
very high performance proxy applications.
11-2001
World's Fastest MTA
IronPort introduces the A-Series Messaging Gateway™
appliance, the world's fastest MTA, more than 20 times faster
than traditional UNIX based servers. It is deployed at the
largest ISPs in the world.
2-2003
IronPort Introduces SenderBase®
The world's first, biggest and best email traffic monitoring
network. With more than 100,000 ISPs, universities and
enterprises participating, SenderBase collects data on more than
25% of the world's email.
6-2003
IronPort Introduces World's First Email Reputation Filtering
System
IronPort invented reputation filtering - the process of rate
limiting suspicious senders at the connection level. This patent
pending technique blocks more than 80% of spam before it even
enters the network.
10-2003
World's Most Powerful Security Appliance, the IronPort C-Series™
With integrated spam, virus, and policy filtering, the
IronPort C-Series now protects 8 of the 10 largest ISPs and
enterprises in the world.
6-2004
Virus Outbreak Filters™
Powered by SenderBase, IronPort's Virus Outbreak Filters stop
viruses as much as 42 hours ahead of signature availability,
keeping networks safe around the world.
11-2004
IronPort Launches Second Generation Reputation Filters
Powerful enough to block spam at the source, IronPort begins
throttling mail coming out of major ISPs, thwarting "zombie" PCs
and making the Internet safer for all users.
6-2005
World's Most Powerful Security Appliance, the IronPort X1000™
IronPort announces the X1000, which processes email messages
10x more efficiently than traditional UNIX based mail servers
and increases system throughput by 400%. The IronPort X1000 is
the first email appliance to integrate Domain Keys technology.
7-2005
Email Authentication Improved by IronPort's SenderBase and
Reputation Filters
IronPort announces a groundbreaking study of enterprise and
ISP traffic that shows reputation data is essential to improving
authentication results. Leveraging IronPort's SenderBase email
traffic monitoring network, the study demonstrates the use of
reputation data to boost efficacy tenfold.
10-2005
IronPort Releases AsyncOS 4.5, Including Next-Generation Virus
Outbreak Filters and a New Threat Operations Facility
IronPort releases high-performance AsyncOS 4.5, the largest
software release in the company's five-year history. AsyncOS 4.5
includes the next generation of Virus Outbreak Filters. This
breakthrough technology has provided protection an average of
13.6 hours ahead of signature availability for more than 100
major outbreaks. In conjunction, IronPort announces an all-new
Threat Operations Center (TOC) facility in San Bruno,
California, with state of the art tools to produce alerts and
rules designed to stay one step ahead of virus writers.
1-2006
IronPort Introduces Web Reputation Technology
IronPort announces Web Reputation technology, an innovative
approach used by IronPort's industry leading multi-layer
anti-spam system. IronPort's Web Reputation technology measures
the behavior and traffic patterns of a web site to assess its
trustworthiness. This enables IronPort to immediately protect
IronPort anti-spam users from spam, viruses, phishing and
spyware threats.
2-2006
IronPort Introduces World's Fastest Web Security Appliance
The IronPort S-Series Web Security Appliances provide the
industry's most comprehensive perimeter defense against a broad
range of spyware and web-based malware. The IronPort S-Series
appliances combine a high-performance security platform with
IronPort's exclusive Web Reputation technology and IronPort's
breakthrough Dynamic Vectoring and Streaming engine (DVS), a new
scanning technology that enables multi-vendor signature-based
spyware filtering. Robust management and reporting tools deliver
ease of administration and complete visibility into
threat-related activity.
7-2006
IronPort Introduces Protection from Email Bounce Attacks
Designed to protect customers from email bounce
attacks, IronPort's unique solution signs the envelope's
return (bounce) address, in SMTP's MAIL FROM: command
for outgoing mail. When bounce messages are sent to an
email gateway the existence of the correct signature
will help determine legitimate bounces from fraudulent
bounces. IronPort's Bounce Verification technology
represents the first appliance-based solution compliant
with Bounce Address Tag Validation (BATV), which is
circulating as a draft with Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF) and is expected to enter the standards
process.
2-2007
IronPort DVS Engine
The IronPort S-Series appliances combine a
high-performance security platform with IronPort's
exclusive Web Reputation™ technology and the
breakthrough IronPort Dynamic Vectoring and Streaming (DVS)
engine™. This revolutionary scanning solution enables
multi-vendor, signature-based spyware filtering.
8-2007
IronPort Encryption Appliance
The IronPort Encryption Appliance™ is the most
comprehensive email encryption gateway on the market.
Whether driven by compliance requirements, improving
customer/partner trust, or protecting intellectual
property, the IronPort Encryption Appliance provides the
flexibility and scalability to support all secure
messaging requirements on a single platform - making it
an ideal email solution for data loss prevention.
9-2007
IronPort Introduces Integrated Data Loss Prevention and
Encryption for Email
These built-in features help streamline the
prohibitively complex task of protecting sensitive
corporate information. The new functionality is included
in IronPort's AsyncOS operating system which powers
IronPort's industry-leading email security appliances.
The introduction of this DLP functionality into the
IronPort appliances gives corporate IT teams a single,
fully integrated solution that combines the traditional
email security functions of spam and virus filtering
with work-flow based functions of policy creation,
content scanning, and message encryption, quarantining
and/or archiving.
