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Policy Patrol wins 2008 Innovation Award

April 4, 2008 – Red Earth Software proudly received this year’s innovation award for Policy Patrol in the ‘Messaging Products’ category from the German Institute for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises. The innovation award recognizes Red Earth Software’s dedication to producing high-quality and innovative software that mitigates the email risks that companies face and helps companies function more efficiently.

Red Earth Software releases Policy Patrol for Exchange 2007

January 21, 2008 – Red Earth Software, developer of email content security software, today announced the release of Policy Patrol for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Policy Patrol for Exchange 2007 fully integrates with Exchange 2007, allowing users to combine the email filtering features uniquely offered in Policy Patrol with those that are included in Exchange 2007.

Cleveland Cavaliers deploy Policy Patrol Disclaimers

December 14, 2006 - Red Earth Software, developer of email signature software for Exchange Server, today announced that the Cavaliers Operating Company have deployed Policy Patrol Disclaimers for their 300 users on Microsoft Exchange Server. The ‘Cavs’ use Policy Patrol to add uniform and promotional email signatures and to add user-based legal disclaimers.

Policy Patrol 4 for Exchange passes Microsoft Platform Tests

September 20, 2006 - Red Earth Software, developer of email and web content security software, today announced that Policy Patrol 4 for Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2000 passed two Microsoft Platform Tests for ISV Solutions; the Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 tests. The tests included performance and reliability assessments and were conducted independently by VeriTest®, a testing service of Lionbridge.

Red Earth Software aids compliance with Circular 230

June 15, 2005 - Red Earth Software is helping tax practitioners adhere to the recently issued final regulations amending Circular 230*. As from June 20 2005, tax professionals must add a prominent disclaimer to written discussions regarding a federal tax matter or face possible disciplinary action. Red Earth Software's Policy Patrol Disclaimers can ensure that the required disclaimer is automatically added to email messages containing tax advice, in the IRS stipulated format.

Policy Patrol Web adds user-based web filtering to ISA Server

June 2, 2005 - Red Earth Software today announced the release of Policy Patrol Web 1.0 for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server. By allowing companies to create flexible, user-based content filtering rules, Policy Patrol Web helps companies manage their Internet resources according to each of their user's needs. In this way, companies can optimize Internet resources, avoid lost productivity and protect against legal liability and damage to reputation.

The Museum of London Group deploys Policy Patrol across three sites

November 3rd, 2004 - Red Earth Software, developer of content security software, today announced that The Museum of London Group has deployed three Policy Patrol installations for blocking spam and adding signatures on their Exchange 2000 servers, servicing a total of 500 users. Policy Patrol's flexibility and range of features were the Museum's main motives for choosing Policy Patrol above other similar solutions.

Policy Patrol first Exchange add-on to support SURBL Lists

August 18, 2004 - Red Earth Software today announced that Policy Patrol is the first commercial Exchange anti-spam add-on to provide support for the new and highly effective Spam URL Realtime Block Lists (SURBL). As opposed to RBL lists that include sender IP addresses and domains, SURBL lists are used to check URLs contained in the body of email messages. With the declining effectiveness of other spam blocking techniques, SURBL lists are a refreshing and promising new approach in combating spam and phishing.

Red Earth Software releases Policy Patrol Zip

June 3, 2004 - Red Earth Software, developer of email content security software, today announced the release of Policy Patrol Zip, email management software for Exchange Server and Lotus Domino that provides automatic compression of attachments at the server level. Policy Patrol Zip can compress and decompress attachments for outgoing and incoming email, and uniquely offers the ability to compress internally sent attachments as well as external attachments (if installed on Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003).

New version stops more SPAM and offloads monitoring burden

March 15, 2004 - Red Earth Software, developer of email content security software, today announced the release of Policy Patrol version 3.0, a suite of email filtering products designed to ensure optimum usage and management of a company's email system. New features in Policy Patrol 3 include improved spam protection through the use of Bayesian filtering, remote image detection and word pattern matching. Furthermore, Policy Patrol's user-based permissions and automatic folder tasks now allow administrators to offload tasks such as monitoring quarantined messages and updating white lists and black lists.

Policy Patrol stops spam on Exchange Server 2003

October 15, 2003 - Red Earth Software, developer of spam filtering software, today announced that Policy Patrol is successfully blocking spam and adding disclaimers to several Exchange Server 2003 deployments. Amongst the deployments is a Microsoft Certified Trainer's collective that uses Policy Patrol for spam filtering, disclaimers, compression and delaying of large emails.

Legal liability for internal emails often overlooked

September 3, 2003 - Red Earth Software warns that many companies are not filtering their internal emails, hence making their organization vulnerable to harassment, racist and sexual discrimination lawsuits. Although many organizations filter their external mails for offensive words and add footers to disclaim responsibility for content, messages sent on the internal network are often left untouched. The recent settlement in the UK for obscene emails sent over the internal network only serves to highlight the fact that leaving internal emails unchecked can prove to be a costly business.

Policy Patrol offers email filtering for Microsoft Exchange 2003

June 27, 2003 - Red Earth Software, developer of email policy enforcement software, today announced that Policy Patrol 2.5 now includes support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Policy Patrol offers Exchange 2003 users advanced email filtering possibilities such as anti-spam, keyword filtering, attachment blocking and disclaimers.

Red Earth Software and Kaspersky Labs announce partnership

May 9, 2003 - Red Earth Software, developer of email policy enforcement software, today announced a partnership agreement with Kaspersky Labs, a renowned data security software developer. The partnership involves the inclusion of Kaspersky Labs' proven anti-virus engine into the email filtering product Policy Patrol, thus significantly enhancing Policy Patrol's ability to detect and deal with malicious programs.

Policy Patrol 2.1 boasts unique spam filtering features

February 3, 2003 - Red Earth Software, developer of spam filtering software, today announced the release of Policy Patrol version 2.1. In addition to faster email processing and an improved compression engine, version 2.1 boasts some unique spam filtering features based on message format and the presence of illegal HTML.

New email filtering product complements email policy

December 2, 2002 - Red Earth Software, developer of email policy enforcement software, today released Policy Patrol version 2. In addition to the disclaimer features of Policy Patrol 1.4, the new version includes more advanced disclaimer possibilities and offers anti-spam, virus scanning, keyword filtering, attachment blocking, compression and many other email management features. With its customizable rules and numerous email filtering possibilities, Policy Patrol helps companies enforce their email policy and manage their email more effectively.

Policy Patrol first to customize non-deliverable reports

November 6, 2002 - Red Earth Software today announced the Beta version of Policy Patrol version 2. One of the unique features of this product is its ability to customize non-deliverable reports (NDRs), a frequently sought after function that no other product has offered until now. Other features of Policy Patrol include user-based keyword filtering, virus scanning, anti-spam, attachment checking, archiving, reporting and disclaimers.

Nissan adds disclaimers and signatures to Exchange 2000 with Policy Patrol

May 15, 2002 - Red Earth Software, developer of email policy enforcement solutions, today announced that Nissan Ireland has deployed a 250 user installation of Policy Patrol to add disclaimers and signatures to their emails. Nissan selected Policy Patrol for its ease of use and ability to use Active Directory fields. The program's user-based disclaimer functionality and competitive price were further considerations for choosing Policy Patrol.

Sunbelt Software selects Policy Patrol for distribution

February 25, 2002 - Red Earth Software today announced a world wide distribution agreement with Sunbelt Software Distribution, Inc. Sunbelt Software will market and sell Policy Patrol, an Exchange server add-on that adds disclaimers and signatures to outgoing email. The product will be made available through Sunbelt's extensive reseller network, as well as at their online shop.

Red Earth Software releases Policy Patrol for Exchange

November 12, 2001 - Red Earth Software, developer of email management solutions, today announced the release of Policy Patrol, an add-on for Exchange that allows companies to add disclaimers to their emails. Unlike existing products, Policy Patrol offers advanced disclaimer functionality such as user based disclaimers, headers and footers, internal disclaimers, support for formatting and merge fields. These features allow companies to increase the relevancy of disclaimers and thus improve their efficacy. Policy Patrol is one of the first products to offer the disclaimer functionality separately, without forcing customers to purchase other security features.