Sendmail Sentrion REAC 2.0 Protects Against Internal Denial-Of-Service Attacks From Rogue Email Applications

PRESS RELEASE

Emeryville, Calif., September 5, 2013--Sendmail today introduced Sentrion Rogue Email Application Control (REAC) 2.0, the first inside-threat protection application with new Big Data search capabilities to further protect organizations against the growing internal threats posed by machine-generated email, which accounts for more than 50% of all corporate email traffic.

"Through our experience supporting email infrastructure for the world's largest enterprises, we have seen businesses grind to a halt due to email-generating business systems and applications suddenly going rogue and inadvertently causing internal e-mail storms," said Glen D. Vondrick, President and CEO at Sendmail, Inc.

Ian Emery, Sendmail's VP EMEA, added: "Left hidden and uncontrolled by IT, these auto-generated emails can cause surprise denial-of-service attacks from within that bring down critical business systems and messaging infrastructure."

Because email-generating systems and applications can number in the thousands across hundreds of departments, discovering and controlling them can place undue burden on IT with no guarantee that all rogue systems and apps will be found. Further complicating the problem of discovery is enterprise email itself, by far the largest source of big data in the enterprise today, generating nearly three exabytes of data annually in email and accompanying attachments.

With Sentrion REAC 2.0, IT can leverage Sendmail's advanced Big Data analysis tools to capture and scan all email data flowing through the enterprise via email logs from the most commonly used MTAs in the world--including sendmail open source, Sendmail Sentrion and Postfix open source--to locate all the email-generating systems and apps that operate hidden in the enterprise. Once Sentrion REAC 2.0 identifies and helps IT inventory these machines, the business applications can be: