Red Condor Partners -
Western Region
As Red Condor continues to grow, it is important for us to stay in
touch with each partner that represents Red Condor's ASAV service. With
this in mind, it is my intent to keep you informed with a monthly
newsletter.
Each month we will keep you up to date on the advanced spamming
technology we see developing and will inform you on how we are combating
these new threats.
I will also be introducing you to some of the people who make up the
Red Condor Team. It is important to be aware of not only what we do but
who makes it possible to continue with the best product and support we
can
produce.
Red Condor has been growing at an amazing rate this year. Sales have
doubled each quarter, and it is our partners that have made this happen.
So thank you to our partners. I hope that you will find the
information in our newsletters to be helpful and informative, helping to
grow your Red Condor base.
David Brown
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Now That You're On Board,
What's Next?
Every Red Condor Partner's Company is structured a little
differently. When it comes to marketing Red Condor, we want to provide an
effective component in your customers' overall network security.
But the common component of successfully marketing Red Condor is
understanding what makes Red Condor different from the 180 plus ASAV
vendors. Now that you have agreed to represent Red Condor we would like
to
provide you with a little training to make you feel not only comfortable
with the product, but to help you understand why we are able to keep up
with the spammers' volume of spam and their ongoing waves of new
technology that defeat the leading anti-spam products.
Give me a call to arrange a training date and time for you. It can be
done in person or via a web conference or a combination of the two. This
training can be structured to meet whatever level of technical experience
is needed. We can arrange to have and engineer on line as well as one of
our spam reviewers to discuss how we filter and create new defenses.
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Meet The
Founders
Jeffrey Aguilera
Chief Architect
Jeffrey Aguilera is a founder of Red Condor and a 25-year software
industry veteran; Hewlett Packard, Central Point Software (PC Tools for
Windows), Investors Alliance (Power Investor), and Invest.com. As a
project leader, Mr. Aguilera has over 20 years experience designing and
building high-visibility software projects. A graduate of the California
Institute of Technology, Mr. Aguilera has a strong background in applied
mathematics and analytic problem solving. He is co-author of Ultimate
Guide to Power Investor, and has a patent-pending for a method of
automated medical diagnosis.
Dave Brounstein
Senior Developer
As a Sun Certified Programmer with over 17 years experience, Dave
Brounstein has been involved in all aspects of software development, from
conception through implementation. He has been a lead programmer on
several projects that require real-time response and fault-tolerance. Mr.
Brounstein is especially proficient with Swing, having authored numerous
custom GUI components. His career has spanned a broad range of
industries,
including insurance, investing and finance, telecommunications,
transportation, legal, and medical.
Brien Voorhees
Senior Developer
As a Sun Certified Programmer with over 15 years experience, Brien
Voorhees has been the lead engineer on numerous mission-critical
real-time
systems. He was lead designer of the VenTek Central Controller, a
scalable
management system used by CalTrans to monitor their fare collection
machines in real-time. At Netsource Communications, he designed and
developed a central call-controller server that handled virtually all of
Netsource's $90 million in annual revenue. The design demanded extreme
reliability, fast response time, and virtually no downtime.
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What's
Next!
2007 will usher in new innovations that will see Red Condor's
footprint widen in the email security space.
Version 4.0 of our software system will be released and will include
advanced features to enhance our email filtering. We are also evaluating
additional options that you will be able to add such as spyware
filtering,
web content filtering and email encryption.
Red Condor has also introduced two new appliances for those customers
who prefer an on site solution. These two appliances will give you
greater
opportunities to address the 1,000 plus mailbox enterprise. We also have
smaller appliances in Beta at this time to address the smaller
opportunities that you may encounter. If you have opportunities for these
appliances, of any sized account, please give me a call to discuss. I
will
get pricing and sales material to you.
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Field
Support
I am preparing my travel for Q1 2007 over the next couple of weeks.
If you have any potential clients that you would like me to accompany you
with during a sales call, please give me a call to discuss. Also, give me
a call if you wish to arrange any in-house training. Every week I
encounter competition, overcome objections or misconceptions and receive
testimonials from resellers and customers alike. I can assist you to
broaden your Red Condor base. I look forward to hearing from you.
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A little Fine
Tuning
On occasion, you may encounter a customer who still feels that they
receive too much spam. If you have such a customer, or when you encounter
one, Red Condor will help you analyze their mail stream.
Just earlier this week I looked at one of our customers who has 93
mailboxes. They are a civil engineering firm and they have had a history
of excessive spam. An overview of 24 hours one day this week showed that
they have been hit with over 1.1 million pieces of mail. 99.8% had been
blocked or quarantined. With Red Condor's long term spam block rate of
98.5%, each employee would still have received 177 pieces of spam over
the
24 hour period, but we were performing at a much higher level. I point
this
out because spam is of course relative to their mail stream. Another
factor
here that we have not and cannot factor in is the mail that was blocked
at
the SMTP session level. This is an unusual case but this volume is due to
Directory Harvest Attacks that were preventing them from using their VPN
prior to using Red Condor. We are essentially "jumping in front of the
bus" for them.
To achieve the block rate of 99.8%, Red Condor offered to help with
an
analysis and fine tuning. We are, after all, a fully managed service and
will assist you and your customer to achieve your best results. If you
need such assistance, please give Tim McAllister a call here at Red
Condor
at 707-703-4039. Tim will perform the analysis and make suggestions for
fine tuning your customer's account.
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In
Closing
I wish all you the Best of your Holidays and a most prosperous New
Year.
David Brown
Western Regional Sales Director
707-703-4043
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