Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 personalises protection against unwanted email

By SMBWorld Asia Editors | Apr 25, 2011

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Symantec Corp. has released the Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5. Formerly called ‘Symantec Brightmail Gateway,’ the latest release extends antispam capabilities with personalised protection against unwanted email. organizations can now customise their definition of unwanted email to personalise 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.

With Symantec Messaging Gateway, organizations can now block more unwanted email with new controls to better define acceptable inbound communications. Symantec Messaging Gateway includes new handling for marketing email and newsletters as well as emails containing suspicious URLs, such as shortened URLs where the target has been obfuscated.   In addition, Symantec continues to improve its antispam engine to increase effectiveness. According to Virus Bulletin’s VBSpam comparative antispam testing, Symantec blocked 99.87% of spam in the most recent March 2011 assessment and consistently scores more than 99.5% effectiveness in these tests. With the support of Symantec’s world-leading malware research team, Symantec Messaging Gateway draws on intelligence gathered from more than 120 million devices and more than 800 million users worldwide, the largest network of its type.

In addition to the existing on-box integration, Symantec Messaging Gateway gives customers a simple add-on option for Symantec Data Loss Prevention, to provide a robust messaging security and data loss prevention solution from one vendor. Also, Symantec Messaging Gateway integrates with Symantec Messaging Encryption Gateway Edition, to give customers the choice of deploying on-premise email encryption or Symantec Content Encryption, a hosted encryption service powered by Symantec.cloud.

According to the 2010 Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach report sponsored by Symantec, the average annual cost of compromised data for companies was $7.2 million, up from $6.8 million in 2009. In light of this escalation, Symantec Messaging Gateway is designed to help organizations save money by reducing the risk of losing confidential information while simultaneously detecting email borne threats.

Easy Management

Symantec Messaging Gateway integrates seamlessly into Symantec Protection Centre, a single sign-on Web console that provides administrators full access to configuration management, report generation and dashboard views of multiple protection technologies. By bringing together global trends from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network with local threat feeds from integrated security products, Symantec Protection Centre provides actionable intelligence to reduce risks and simplify management.

Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 is available now.  Existing Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 customers with a valid maintenance contract are entitled to perform a simple upgrade to Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 at no additional cost.

Solution blocks more than 99% of spam while integrating with DLP and encryption technologies to protect outbound messages.