GWGuardian Protects the Email System and Keeps the Users at Highland Community College Spam and Virus-Free
Highland Community College uses GroupWise as a collaboration platform between students and faculty. Currently, the institution is running GroupWise 6.5 and all the accounts are managed through eDirectory. Since February 2005 GWGuardian has been the messaging firewall offering anti-spam and anti-virus protection to the college's email system.
"Until we deployed GWGuardian, we were playing a catch-up game with the viruses," explains Nathan Hensal, Network Administrator and in charge of Novell infrastructure, email server, account security at Highland Community College. "Since we put the solution in place, there has been a dramatic drop in the calls related to virus issues and this has made a huge difference for our IT staff. We are finally able to devote ourselves to other infrastructure-related projects and not have to deal with spam and viruses."
"The Overall experience with Messaging Architects was excellent – your team was very helpful with providing assistance and addressing our questions. We chose the GWGuardian appliance – it came pre-configured and I got a walk-through the advanced features during a one-on-one FastTrack session with a systems engineer," continues Hensal.
"All my end users immediately noticed the change and loved it. For the longest time, they had been begging me to do something to stop the spam from coming. You know that educational institutions are among the most targeted ones by spammers. GWGuardian managed to do what they had been asking for: stop the onslaught of spam and eliminate the constant threat from viruses that we were battling before.
"Another thing I really appreciate about GWGuardian is that there isn’t much administration around it either. It comes as a hardened appliance that just does exactly what it’s supposed to do. It requires little ongoing maintenance and does its job without any tweaking. The Quarantine reports add additional value to the product as this feature allows users to manage their white and blacklists and determine the severity of their spam filters, as well as review trapped content and release messages that they deem are acceptable or legitimate."
Overall, I definitely recommend GWGuardian appliance as a fire-and-forget solution that will address all your email security concerns, bring considerable savings to your IT department, and increase employee and IT staff productivity," concludes Hensal.
