Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5, powered by Brightmail (formerly “Symantec Brightmail Gateway”) is the company’s latest release that extends unparalleled antispam capabilities with personalized protection against unwanted email. Organizations can now customize their definition of unwanted email to personalize the protection they receive, meeting the varied demands of their individual environments. In addition, Symantec Messaging Gateway allows for tight integration with data loss prevention and encryption solutions to protect outbound communications. Virtual deployment of Symantec Messaging Gateway is fully supported to offer customers flexible, cost-effective options for fighting spam.
2. Symantec Messaging Gateway Offers:
• Powered by the Brightmail AntiSpam filtering
Best engine, Symantec Messaging Gateway blocks
more than 99% of spam with less than 1 in 1
Protection million false positives
• Integration with best-of-breed Symantec Data
Greater Loss Prevention and E-mail Encryption allows for
monitoring and protection of sensitive company
Control information
Easy • Symantec Protection Center offers actionable
intelligence to reduce risks and simplify
Management management
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3. New Features
• Targeted antispam effectiveness with granular
Best new dispositions
Protection • Extended antispam dominance with improved
antispam engine
Greater • Enhanced DLP and encryption integration
Control • New DLP and encryption add-on options
• Symantec Protection Center integration provides
Easy unified management and reporting across
security portfolio
Management • Extended virtualization support to expand reach
of Virtual Edition
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4. New Dispositions
Customer Challenge:
• Some end users consider marketing emails and newsletters as spam,
while others have opted in for this type of communication
• Shortened URLs can increase
the threat of links to malicious
websites
Solution:
• Symantec scans for three new
dispositions: Newsletters,
Marketing Mail, and Suspicious
URLs
• Policies can be configured by
group with distinct actions
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5. Symantec Protection Center Integration
Customer Challenge:
• Want the ability to manage multiple security products centrally with a
combined view of security threats and trends
Solution:
• Symantec Protection Center integration allows for:
– Single sign on
– management of multiple
security products
– Manage more than one SMG
deployment,
– Includes unified Malware
and Email reports pulling
from SMG data feeds
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