Email Security Solutions from SECURE COMPUTING®

Building a Secure and productive Email Environment

Everybody knows that email is a common source of viruses, but that knowledge has done little to stem the tide of email-based attacks. Every company of every size uses email, and it has become vital for day-to-day communication, not only within the company, but externally as well. Email security will help to preserve this vital communication infrastructure so that business as usual can continue.

Email security goes beyond simple anti-virus tools. There are a wide variety of attacks, and a wide variety of email security tools to prevent them. Besides viruses, inbound email messages may contain spam, spyware, Trojans and other types of malware that could infiltrate your network, or even turn some of your network PCs into zombies, sending out illicit email under your own domain without your knowledge.

According to IDC, almost 30 billion email messages are sent on an average day in North America alone. A significant percentage of these messages are spam, or are messages that are infected with some sort of malware. About 80 percent of infections that infect an enterprise, enter through a messaging protocol. Protecting your messaging platform with email security from Secure Computing is the first step in preserving your critical communications channels.

Secure Computing's email security starts with TrustedSource® global reputation system, which gathers information on email senders and the types of emails they generate, accumulating data from thousands of sensors around the world. Because TrustedSource sees over 110 billion messages a month, it can provide a high level of accuracy when creating a reputation score. Based on these scores, TrustedSource promotes email security by blocking up to 80 percent of connections, based purely on reputational data, increasing security levels by dropping bad messaging packets at the gateway before they have a chance to enter the network.

SecureComputing's TrustedSource technology is embedded in the Secure Mail (IronMail) email security appliance, and the Secure Computing Secure Mail Edge device. Secure Mail (IronMail) and Secure Mail Edge provide award-winning, multi-layered protection for email systems. Fighting spam is another element of email security, and Secure Computing's Secure Web Webwasher provides protection in-depth for emails and other types of messaging content.

All of Secure Computing's Secure Mail appliances take a layered approach to content protection and email security, starting with TrustedSource, and incorporating multiple anti-virus engines, spam and spyware protection, and anti-phishing technology.

Today's World of Electronic Communications — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Email Security

Nothing is more important to people within your company than the ability to effectively communicate with each other and with external contacts. If you question this assertion, try turning off your email servers for an hour and see what happens!

Yet, that's exactly what could happen if proper steps aren't taken to ensure the continued health of your messaging infrastructure and email security. Inbound messages can carry spam, spyware, viruses, zombies, phishes and Trojans. Outbound messages can carry regulated and protected information, intellectual property or trade secrets. Your job is to keep the communication doors open and moving freely, facilitating the good, while eliminating the bad and the ugly.

Email security represents a broad number of things and how do you know which is which? How do you uniformly enforce policies on every communication platform and device, globally, that your company uses? How do you manage this feat and stay within your budget?

Secure Computing provides innovative layered email security solutions to stop inbound and outbound messaging threats in an integrated, best-of-breed, and technologically superior appliance. Secure Computing capabilities deliver maximum availability and unmatched email security, effectiveness and global enterprise manageability across multiple messaging protocols including email, instant messaging, webmail, VoIP, FTP, P2P, and wireless devices.

Protecting the messaging infrastructure to implement email security is critical to an organization's overall success. Secure Computing® offers the industry's most accurate, effective, and scalable email security solutions for anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing attacks and intrusion detection in one easy to manage appliance. Combining sophisticated technologies in the appliance with Secure Computing's global intelligence system, TrustedSource™, Secure Computing eliminates inbound threats against the organization and provides industry-leading email security. The result is a 70-90% reduction in the email entering the organization and the elimination of email-borne malware, including anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing, and anti-spyware threats.

Secure Computing Anti-Virus Email Security — Secure Computing's Zero-Day Virus Protection combines all known virus detection techniques, including a unique ability to utilize multiple virus signature engines simultaneously, keyword policies, file extensions, deep attachment inspection, spam blocking, sender reputation and sender behavior. No other email security product available is more effective at stopping viruses.

Secure Computing Anti-Spam Email Security — Utilizing the industry's best-in-class TrustedSource Reputation Service, Secure Computing delivers the most accurate, effective, scalable and easy-to-manage anti-spam protection available. Secure Computing pioneered the email security appliance market and we remain at the forefront in the war against spam, committed to delivering the highest level of protection available.

Secure Computing Anti-Phishing Email Security — Phishing is a form of fraud used to gain personal information in order to steal someone's identity. Secure Computing® research detects more than 17,000 phishing attacks each month, and an average of 250,000 new zombies each day. As part of a complete email security solution, the best protection against phishing is to prevent these attacks from ever getting to the user's inbox, and Secure Computing offers the most effective solution for anti-phishing available.

Secure Computing Messaging Firewalls and IDS — Enterprise email infrastructures are vulnerable to a variety of attacks which can compromise the backbone of an enterprise email system and devastate a company's ability to conduct business as usual. Secure Computing Secure Mail (IronMail) protects enterprises from denial-of-service, directory harvest attacks, port scans and other types of attack. These attacks are blocked by the hardened Secure Mail (IronMail) appliance and never have a chance to reach the network.

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