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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is the largest governmentfunded tertiary institution in Hong Kong in terms of enrolment. It has 22,000 full-time and part-time students enrolled in a wide range of courses and disciplines and 3000 staff. To protect the internal and external communication system for students and staff against virus threats, the university decided to use a Mirapoint solution powered by Sophos’s virus detection engine. Télécharger maintenant
"We could not find the kind of filtering flexibileness offered by PureMessage in any other anti-spam solution."
Lawrence HY Law, Information Technology Services Center Director
Fact file
| Sector: |
Higher education |
| Location: |
Hong Kong |
| Environment: |
10,000 users receive more then 100,00 emails per day through two Pentium III and Free BSD servers |
| Solution: |
PureMessage, part of Email Security and Control |
Business challenge
- The university was receiving a massive amount of complaints from users about spam and wanted a solution that could calculate spam probabilities for individual users. Close to 30% of emails were offensive spam and could have adversely affected the university's reputation.
Technology solution
- PureMessage allows users to set their own spam defaults, based on the probability of messages being spam, at a level they feel comfortable with.
- An option is available for users to be included in, or excluded from, some marketing mailing lists, which allows additional choice and flexibility.
- PureMessage's scalability means the university can add even more email users in the future.
Business results
- Since rolling out PureMessage to all users, the IT department has had fewer complaints about spam.
- During the outbreak of the Sobig-F virus, the university was able to prevent the virus from entering the email gateway and did not experience any network problems.