Messaging Security Solutions from SECURE COMPUTING®
Comprehensive Messaging Security / Protecting the Messaging Gateway

Messaging is the most important application for nearly every enterprise worldwide, and it also poses the greatest risk. Messaging security must be a high priority, since email messages are often the source of viruses, spam and spyware. Secure Computing's complete portfolio of messaging security products is easy to manage and delivers excellent performance, as well as a high degree of accuracy.

The threats that can come into the enterprise through messaging protocols are among the most dangerous. Trojans, zombies and worms can devastate a network, and Instant Messaging can drain productivity as well as function as a conduit for malware. For inbound messaging security, Secure Computing's unified threat management product line helps keep unwanted messages from clogging up bandwidth and mail servers. But keeping unwanted or dangerous messages from coming into the network isn't enough. In today's era of heightened compliance requirements and regulations, outbound messaging security and content control must also be a priority to prevent data leakage of important corporate financial data, and customer information that is required to be protected and kept private.

Most enterprises use anti-virus software of some sort to protect their messaging gateway, and according to the 2006 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 97 percent of companies surveyed use anti-virus protection. Effective messaging security goes far beyond anti-virus software, however. Key elements of messaging security include:

• Anti-virus
• Anti-spam
• Anti-spyware
• Inbound and outbound protection
• SSL scanner protection
• Messaging policy management

Secure Computing takes these key messaging security elements and provides a best-of-breed, Unified Threat Management (UTM) platform for easy management and low cost. Anti-virus protection includes an anti-virus prescan as well as an automatically-updated and comprehensive signature list. Today, Secure Computing also adds another layer of protection to messaging security by incorporating the state of the art in reputation-based protection as well. All Secure Computing appliances incorporate TrustedSource reputation-based technology, which derives the reputation of every IP address and sender.

Policy enforcement, and the detection of policy violations are similarly key elements of messaging security, and Secure Computing's messaging security platform ships with tools for policy definition and creation to simplify the process. After policies are defined, violations can be detected and reported to ensure the highest level of safety and compliance.

Secure Computing's messaging security appliances provide the most sophisticated content analysis engines available. Using a layered approach, all message bodies, headers, and attachments, even those that are encrypted, can be scanned using a combination of full-message scanning and content filtering, image analysis, fingerprinting, adaptive lexical analysis and clustering technology.

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