General Info

Cisco IronPort Systems is an e-mail and Web security products provider for organizations. The company provides high performance, easy-to-use products for those faced with the task of managing and protecting their mission-critical networks from Internet threats. The company focuses on its technologies, such as SenderBase and AsyncOS. SenderBase is one of the world's first and largest e-mail traffic monitoring services. It collects data from more than 100,000 Internet service providers, universities and corporations throughout the world. It measures more than 110 different parameters for any e-mail server on the Internet. Its database receives more than 5 billion queries per day. IronPort licenses this product to the open-source community and other institutions that fight spam. AsyncOS has a stackless threading model that allows each appliance to support more than 10,000 simultaneous connections. Founded on a UNIX-based kernel stripped of all nonessential components, this software is also built for security.