Symantec Announces Integrated Antispam, Antivirus and
Content Filtering Solution for
SMTP Gateways
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 Protects Against
Risk of E-mail Threats and
Spam
CUPERTINO, Calif. April 17, 2006 Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC)
today announced it is raising the bar for enterprise e-mail
security protection by delivering the industry's first integrated
best-of-breed antispam,
antivirus and content filtering protection in a single software
solution for SMTP gateways -- Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
5.0. The combination of technologies proactively protects
against inbound and outbound e-mail threats at the earliest
point of network entry -- the Internet e-mail (SMTP) gateway.
Scheduled to be available in May, Symantec Mail Security for
SMTP 5.0 is the final integration of Brightmail and Symantec
technologies into a single, unified solution, and is a key
component of Symantec Enterprise Messaging Management solution
portfolio.
"Today's enterprises rely heavily on e-mail for both internal and
external business communication," said Brian Burke, Research
Manager, IDC's Security Products. "To protect against malicious
code, phishing attacks, viruses, spam and other unwanted e-mail,
organizations require a comprehensive solution that provides layers
of protection to stop inbound and outbound e-mail threats from
impacting organizations and compromising security."
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and government agencies around the world, and with its growth comes
the increased risk of threats. According to IDC, 80 percent of
viruses enter through the e-mail gateway. In addition, the most
recent Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (March 7, 2006)
cites that phishing attempts made up one in every 119 e-mail
messages processed, which constituted an average of 7.92 million
phishing attempts detected per day in the second half of 2005 -- a
39 percent increase over the first half of 2005. The report also
states that Symantec's antifraud filters -- a key technology
included in Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 -- blocked more
than 1.5 billion phishing attempts during this period.
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into a single solution for e-mail gateways. "Today's enterprises
prefer the convenience of a strong, integrated e-mail security
solution from a single trusted vendor," said Rick Caccia, senior
director of product management for Symantec Messaging and Web
Security. "Symantec Mail Security for SMTP offers the industry's
best technologies in threat protection, antispam, and content
filtering to significantly reduce the risk of threats to the
network posed by email-based threats, and to control the flow of
unauthorized or inappropriate content in e-mail both internally and
externally."
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Microsoft "As a private education institute, we must prevent e-mail
threats from compromising the security of our student and staff
information, while ensuring that the school is able to operate
efficiently," said Nathan Pilgrim, IT Manager for Brisbane Girls
Grammar School, a private institution based in Brisbane, Australia,
with more than 1150 students and 175 staff. "Symantec Mail Security
for SMTP helps us protect against malicious code, phishing attacks,
viruses and spam with virtually no false positives, ensuring the
online safety of our students and maximizing the efficiency of our
network."
— Cloudmark, Inc., the authority in messaging security, announced an agreement today with Message Partners, a leading provider of email security software, that enables it to participate in a global agreement with IBM whereby Message Partners' flagship Message Processing Platform (MPP) can be resold as part of an integrated platform solution on IBM System p™ products for small to midsized businesses, along with an option for Cloudmark's Authority™ engine, abuse solution that blocks spam, carrying emails at the gateway.
Laptop Computers Building on the integration of Symantec Mail Security for SMTP,
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam, and key features from Symantec Mail
Security 8200 Series, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 provides
one of the strongest barriers against malicious code, phishing
attempts, and spyware and adware. New day-zero virus prevention
draws on the breadth and reach of Symantec's Probe Network,
identifying suspicious attachments that exhibit the qualities of
viruses and mass-mailing worms and rerouting them to the new
Suspect Virus Quarantine, where they are held until definitions are
available. Administrators also have the option of deleting the
message, stripping the attachment, generating a notification or
performing other actions on a per-recipient basis. In addition, the
solution mitigates emerging threats such as phishing and spyware
with anti-phishing defenses using Sender Policy Framework and
Sender ID, and the inclusion of spyware and adware in dispositions
for virus policies combats the increasing threat of such programs
using links in e-mail to facilitate installation.
performance solution at the Internet gateway, stopping viruses and other malicious code before it spreads to end users% desktops and to corporate servers. The product is able to scan SMTP, HTTP, FTP and POP3 traffic for viruses, worms and trojans as well as block and filter out specified file types. Also ActiveX and Java code can be scanned or blocked. Secure, keeping virus protection always up to date. based management console simplifies installation and configuration of the product.
Laptop Computer Powerful new content filtering capabilities simplify the
enforcement of corporate usage policies, as well as compliance with
legal and regulatory requirements. Administrators can conduct
regular expression and keyword scanning of more than 200 recognized
attachment types, including ZIP files, executables, processing,
spreadsheet and presentation file formats. Symantec Mail Security
for SMTP 5.0 also automatically determines the true file type of an
attachment through direct physical inspection rather than by
extension or MIME type, which prevents malicious senders from
attempting to bypass attachment filters with the renaming of a
malicious attachment extension to a more commonly used extension
(for example, changing the file from .exe to .doc).
"We have been extremely impressed with the accuracy, throughput, ease of deployment and flexibility of the combined Bizanga and Cloudmark solution, " said Stéphane Charbonneau, development director, Lycos. "We were able to deploy Intelligent Message Processor into the Lycos Europe structure within half a day and have been able to process antispam and antivirus filtering for all Lycos traffic in Europe using only one machine. Moreover, we were impressed by the solution's accuracy to block fraud as well as spam with low false positives in eight languages."
Desktop Computer With its award-winning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam technology,
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 provides enterprises with a
multi-layered spam defense that employs more than 20 filtering
technologies, including spam signatures, heuristics, reputation
filters, language identification and proprietary methods, with
automatic updates occurring within every 10 minutes. The technology
also enables organizations to achieve high detection rates of 95
percent and 99.9999 percent accuracy rates against false positives,
allowing companies to safely delete spam without review.
Notebooks In addition, new graphical message auditing allows
administrators to perform advanced tracking across multiple
scanners in their network. E-mail messages can be searched by
subject, date and time range, envelope sender/recipient,
disposition, next hop IP, and more. The message tracking feature
also provides an instant summary of the action performed on the
message and for more detailed information, administrators can
easily drill down to see a comprehensive, organized view of
messages' flow through the system.
Lenovo To ensure the most up-to-date protection and reduce total cost
of ownership, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 is supported by
Symantec Security Response, the world's leading Internet security
research and support organization, leverages sophisticated threat
and early warning systems to provide customers with comprehensive,
global, 24x7 Internet security expertise to proactively guard
against today's blended Internet threats.
Hard Drive For organizations securing heterogeneous environments, Symantec
Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 provides support for a broad range of
operating system platforms, including Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
and Windows Server 2003, Sun Solaris 9 and 10, and Red Hat Linux
ES/AS 3.0.
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Symantec is the first company to deliver complete, end-to-end
Enterprise Messaging Management capabilities, keeping messaging
systems and data both secure and readily available. Symantec
Enterprise Messaging Management provides industry-leading products
and services designed to help eliminate unnecessary costs by
reducing large volumes of unwanted spam, stopping viruses and
worms, automatically managing the lifecycle of older messages
through archiving, and by helping to keep customers' communications
infrastructures resilient against failure.
Gateway Availability
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 is scheduled to be available
in May through Symantec's worldwide network of value-added
authorized resellers, distributors and systems integrators.
Organizations can be connected with Symantec's resellers and
distributors in their areas by visiting the Symantec Solution
Provider locator at http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com.
Laptop Parts Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 is also part of the Symantec
Mail Security Enterprise Edition bundle, which offers customers the
flexibility to choose from various deployment options, including
appliances, software or hosted services for comprehensive
protection of their e-mail infrastructure. The Symantec Mail
Security Enterprise Edition bundle includes several deployment
options to protect the SMTP gateway -- the primary entry point for
Internet-borne threats -- with the Symantec Mail Security 8200
Series appliance, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 software and
Symantec Hosted Mail Security. In addition, to protect e-mail on
internal mail servers from threats and inappropriate e-mail
content, Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange and Symantec
Mail Security for Domino ensure tight integration for real-time,
on-demand and scheduled scans of the message store.
Software About Symantec
Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help
individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and
integrity of their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif.,
Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries. More information
is available at www.symantec.com.
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