Abaca Technology Corp., a provider of email protection and messaging security, announced Tuesday a new competitive upgrade program that allows customers to improve their email security with Abaca's proven 99.997 percent spam catch rate, while leveraging their previous investment in a competitive appliance-based or hosted email security solution.

Eligible customers will receive a subscription credit for up to nine months for qualifying services, as well as their choice of a free Abaca Virtual Email Protection Gateway or a 50 percent discount on the Abaca Email Protection Gateway appliance.

Abaca's patent-pending technology, ReceiverNet, offers an advanced approach in the fight against spam, which provides unprecedented levels of accuracy and guaranteeing 99 percent spam filtration. Abaca has created a portfolio of products and services based upon this core technology, thereby assuring users unparalleled messaging protection from spam, as well as viruses and phishing attacks. Abaca is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, California.

"Abaca's new competitive upgrade program gives customers who have invested in competitive email security solutions a smooth, cost-effective path to the industry's only anti-spam solution that guarantees 99 percent accuracy," said Leo Jolicoeur, CEO of Abaca Technology Corporation. "Our program allows them to enjoy all the benefits of Abaca's breakthrough technology now, while continuing to realize a return on their previous investment."

Abaca's Email Protection Gateway appliance and ReceiverNet Service comprise a revolutionary, next-generation solution that uses the receiver's reputation to protect against email-born threats.

Upon installation, Abaca's protected users become members of the Abaca ReceiverNet Protection Network, an anti-spam network that provides immediate and unsurpassed zero-hour email security. This combination provides levels of accuracy 10 to 100 times better than existing approaches, delivers high messaging protection against spam, viruses, and phishing attacks, provides immunity against future attacks, and requires almost no system administration or tuning on the customer's part.

"Ease of management is a major benefit of Abaca's email security solution," said Jolicoeur. "Customers can typically install the Abaca Email Protection Gateway appliance and configure the ReceiverNet Service within an hour, and then achieve up to 99.997 percent accuracy in email filtering without any ongoing IT management. It is zero-hour security with nearly zero-system administration, giving customers who switch to Abaca the industry's best email protection along with significantly reduced administration overhead."

The Abaca Competitive Upgrade Program is currently available to eligible customers with qualifying email security products and services. Customers who currently have subscriptions to qualifying competitive services will receive one month of subscription credit for the Abaca ReceiverNet Standard Service or ReceiverNet Premium Service for each month remaining on their existing subscription, for up to nine months. In addition, eligible customers will receive a free Abaca Virtual Email Protection Gateway or a 50 percent discount on the Abaca Email Protection Gateway appliance.