What is ASTPS

ASTPS is a holistic and reliable defense against all kinds of threats and productivity lost in your email traffic at gateway site.

Our main focus is besides an excellent detection rate on the total prevention of so called false positives. Your business emails are our most significent concern and have to pass unhindered.

Another target of ASTPS is to conter email threats proactive not reactive. ASTPS offers an effective defense against variations of knows massmails and malware besides the widespread heuristic methods.

ASTPS integrates seamless into know email gateways like Clearswift Mailsweeper or Mailmarshal and is optimized into perfomace, scalability and preservation of recources.

ASTPS offers comfort and easiest handling and shows its full capability directly after its installation without any need for maintainance or adjustment.

The current situation

Where do you draw the line between emails with

  • viruses
  • worms
  • trojans
  • adware
  • scam mails
  • mails with mailciouscode
  • phishing mails

The current situations show that it is not useful to draw such a line. In the last time these threats come in a mixture to your email gateway.

The traditional defense

New and old ways of a spam email: 

The time where a spammer hijacked an unshielded email gateway and abused it to send millions of emails to the whole world have passed by.

Today you can find spammers just around the corner.

Today they use spambot farms consisting of 100, 1000 or even more spam drones, mostly hijacked pc of normal internet users, to spread their commercials or worse.

ASTPS offers a reliable protection against variations of known massmails and malware.

Conventional Analysis: 

Extensive dictionarys and language detection to rate an email are to dull compared to the fast adjustment of the spammers.

  • How many variations of the word Viagra do you know?
  • Just imagine they would try to promote a new virillity medicament called Tologarmafullamin. How many Variations could you find at the spot?
  • How shall the system react the Spam in Swahili, Cyrillic or hacker tounge?

The traditional attemp is ineffectiv and very complicated, which increases the cost and the need for maintainance of the antispam product.

Our defense against mass mails

ASPTS combines the most effective methods to defend your system against spam, scam and phishing emails, and increases their efficiency by an unique highly effictiv technology.

Our Product offers a Spam Detection Rate of about 98% while the False Posivites Rate is about 0%.

The following Methods are supported additionally:

  • Realtime Blackhole Lists, scanning of all appearing IP adresses against several internet databases of know Spam Hosts in an efficient parallel search
  • Scanning of all appearing internet adresses against several internet databases of know spam internet adresses in an efficient parallel search
  • Local Blacklists with own unwanted Internetadresses
  • Whitelists for IP Adresses
  • Whitelists for Internetadresses

You can get further Information and a evaluation copy at http://www.astps.de

System demands

Operating System:

Windows Server NT4 SP6 or higher, Windows Server 200x

Windows Server 2003 SP2 recommonended

RAM:

At least 50MB of free RAM

CPU:

Pentium II 233 MHz or better

Contentscanner:

Clearswift MIMEsweeper for SMTP Version 4.2, 4.3, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2