VADE RETRO TECHNOLOGY, SASU Au capital de 268 831
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3 avenue Antoine Pinay, Parc d'activité des 4 vents, 59 510 HEM – France – RCS Rbx – Tourcoing - 509 568 416
10C 1V2 01/11 FR
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General principles
Vade Retro, a French software vendor with technology ahead of its
time
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The information in this chapter will allow you to find out more about spam-related threats
and the antispam technology implemented on your MailCube.
About spam
Did you know that more than 90% of electronic messages circulating worldwide are spam?
E-mail within a company is as much an indispensable tool as it is a major source of spending (loss of
employee productivity and even a breach of your company’s security).
Many studies have highlighted the cost of spam – on average, it represents a cost of 2.5 man-days a
year for the company! This cost includes both the direct cost (bandwidth consumption, storage of
undesirable mail, etc.) and indirect cost (employee’s time wasted processing spam). This works out to
about 250,000
€
per year for a company of 100 employees
(1)
.
(1) Source: Radicati group
About commercial e-mails and social network notifications
Even after a powerful antispam has done its job, commercial e-mails and social network notifications
still represent more than 50% of the messages that reach your inbox. At Vade Retro, we call these
“graymail”. Graymail refers to low-priority messages that are occupying an increasing amount of space
in inboxes.
Commercial e-mails provide ways to unsubscribe in order to stop receiving them. However, these links
are sometimes not clearly visible to the user, or the unsubscription process is tedious and many users
dread the inappropriate use of information or the insertion of viruses/malware.
However, unsubscribing is still the best way to optimize the contents of a mailbox. It just has to be
simple and safe.
Vade Retro’s technology
Technology is the catchword at Vade Retro. 60% of its employees are dedicated to the research and
development of Vade Retro’s filter kernel.
Vade Retro’s antispam technology uses thousands of rules, each contributing to a comprehensive
assessment of every message, without the need to learn the specifics of each deployment site
and without querying an external reference server.
The main advantages of Vade Retro technology are:
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Immediately operational processing, no learning time required
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No external connection to analyze messages.
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Very high processing speed.
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Small amount of system resources required.
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Compact and universal development.
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Innovative technologies such as graymail classification (Commercial e-mails, Newsletters and
social network notifications) as well as safe unsubscription in one click.