F-Secure Spam Control for Internet Gatekeeper

F-Secure

http://www.f-secure.com

F-Secure® Spam Control™ detects and filters annoying and offensive spam messages from organizations email traffic automatically, transparently and frees time for productive work. F-Secure Spam Control detects spam messages automatically using advanced content analysis and categorization. High accuracy detection rates are achieved and maintained by scanning email using multiple filtering mechanisms and updating the product with frequent automatic updates from F-Secure Anti-Spam Lab.

Key Features

* Advanced content analysis technology
* Runs and updates automatically
* Seamless integration to F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper
* Flexible administration and configuration
* Centralized or local administration

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

SpamSherlock

HGiga Inc.

http://www.hgiga.com/

From business in between enterprises to messaging in between colleagues, e-mail has become an indispensable tool of communication in today's society. However, with recent rise of Junk or Spam e-mailing, the war on security intrusion, after tricky virus, has yet another addition of cunning enemies—Spam.

To help enterprise shaking off the troublesome Spam, HGiga enthusiastically research and developed world-first consolidate intelligent anti-spam e-mail filtering technology—SpamSherlock. This consolidate anti-spam tool is aiming at guileful Spam by layers of filtering and analysis. From DNS reverse lookup to content filtering, SpamSherlock consolidates and utilizes multiple filtering and analysis techniques to ping point and bring Spam to light. Furthermore, SpamSherlock facilitates personalized anti-spam management, which restores the balance between strict company policy and its employee needs. A new generation of e-mailing experience is now here.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

Barracuda Spam Firewall

Barracuda Networks

http://www.barracudanetworks.com

The Barracuda Spam Firewall is compatible with all email servers and can fit into nearly any corporate or small business environment. It is used by small organizations with as few as 10 employees and large organizations with as many as 200,000 employees. A single Barracuda Spam Firewall handles up to 25,000 active email users and 15 million email messages per day. Multiple units can be clustered together for even greater capacity and high availability.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall protects your email server with ten defense layers:
* Denial of service and security protection
* IP block list
* Rate control
* Virus check with archive decompression
* Barracuda virus check
* User-specified rules
* Spam fingerprint check
* Intention analysis
* Bayesian analysis
* Rule-based scoring

The Barracuda Spam Firewall architecture optimizes the processing of each email to maximize performance and process millions of messages per day. Unlike software solutions, the Barracuda Spam Firewall reduces the load placed on the email server by off-loading both spam and virus filtering.

In addition, all Barracuda Spam Firewall models include essential outbound filtering techniques including attachment scanning, virus filtering, rate controls and encryption. These features help organizations to ensure that all outgoing email is legitimate and virus-free.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

McAfee SecurityShield for Microsoft ISA Server

McAfee

http://www.mcafeesecurity.com

McAfee SecurityShield combines best-of-breed anti-virus, anti-spam, and content filtering technology into a single integrated solution for Microsoft ISA Server deployments. Part of the McAfee Secure Content Management family, SecurityShield provides superior protection and control over Internet and mail content, including support for all major protocols, advanced filtering rules that can be defined per user group, centralized policy management, and detailed graphical reporting.

McAfee SpamKiller® can be fully integrated into SecurityShield for more powerful anti-spam functionality. Utilizing an extensive rule set, the McAfee SpamKiller scoring system runs literally hundreds of rules against each email. Rules have a negative or positive score, with negative denoting legitimate email and positive indicating unsolicited email or spam. This highly effective technology catches up to 95% of all spam email, with a very low false-positive rate of less than 0.5%, right out of the box.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

MailGate AntiSpam Appliance

Tumbleweed

http://www.tumbleweed.com/

MailGate AntiSpam Appliance™ protects against spam and email-borne viruses that can cripple your organization, tax your IT department, and force end users to struggle through oceans of unwanted email to get to their legitimate business messages. In addition, it enables email filtering at the gateway, which can dramatically reduce the load on email servers – improving network performance and email security.

MailGate Appliance immediately stops up to 98% of the spam hitting your organization with a false-positive rate of only 1 in 100,000. Plus, it allows you to quickly realize real savings from fast installation, low maintenance, reduced infrastructure, and best-in-class performance. Your end users don’t need to do a thing to experience the benefits.

With MailGate AntiSpam Appliance, organizations can:
* Quickly deploy spam and virus protection – set it up on 30 minutes or less!
* Choose either the McAfee Olympus Engine or Kaspersky Anti-Virus Engine for anti-virus scanning.
* Control quarantine features.
* Separate newsletters from important email.
* Automatically receive spam definition updates, even every hour if you choose.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

Astaro Security Gateway

Astaro Corporation

http://www.astaro.com

Astaro Security Gateways provide complete, integrated high-performance e-mail protection:
* Better security by blocking viruses and worms
* Improved productivity by eliminating spam
* Higher privacy by filtering phishing and spyware attacks

Complete e-mail protection is achieved by integrating various techniques:
* Dual virus scanning -- messages go through two engines
* Eight anti-spam techniques -- always the latest protection
* User-managed quarantine -- permits easy administration
* World's largest URL database -- effective phishing detection
* SMTP, POP3, and HTTP proxies -- filtering business and personal email

Astaro's complete e-mail security solution is featured by the powerful, easy to use, and affordable Astaro Security Gateways, available as appliances and as software.

Commercial

Information updated: 17 Jan 07

MailFrontier Gateway Appliance

MailFrontier Inc.

http://www.mailfrontier.com

MailFrontier Gateway Appliance is standardized on IBM xSeries hardware available on Windows and Linux operating systems. It combines the best protection, effortless control, and high performance with immediate deployment.

Anti-Spam: Stop Spam with Cross Analysis
No single analytic technique is enough to stop the constantly morphing forms of spam. Even multiple techniques aren’t enough to keep spam at bay for long. And rigid scoring often ends up blocking email that you actually want to receive. MailFrontier takes spam management beyond arbitrary scoring with MailFrontier Cognite™, a revolutionary evidence evaluation system that identifies the sender, analyzes the content, and applies a collaborative review to every email. These methods are 98 percent effective at stopping spam. Only when all three elements are simultaneously cross-analyzed can you have true confidence in your solution’s handling of your company’s email.

Sender, content, and collaborative review are each excellent spam identifiers. But if only a single method is used, the risk of false positives increases. However, MailFrontier’s unique cross-analysis requires that at least two of our independent techniques label a message as spam before it is marked as definite spam – ensuring no good email is caught.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

SurfControl RiskFilter

SurfControl

http://www.surfcontrol.com/

Out-of-the-box and into-the-rack, there’s simply no greater security appliance today than SurfControl RiskFilter

ACCURATE, EFFECTIVE AND FLEXIBLE SPAM FILTERING.
No spam goes undetected by RiskFilter's Anti-Spam Agent (ASA). Boasting an unprecedented 15 layers of e-mail protection technologies, ASA deploys two especially powerful techniques - exact digital fingerprinting and advanced heuristics - to provide immediate and complete coverage of HTML and text-based spam, as well as other files like images, movies and screen savers. Supremely flexible, you can set your rules to suit specific user demands - individual and/or group - and then monitor, inspect and process messages accordingly. So if you want to unburden your network's precious bandwidth and get back valuable user productivity, install the appliance that promises proven high capture rates and exceptionally low false positives.
* 15 layers of protection against spam, viruses, and blended threats
* Automatic updates for real-time anti-spam coverage
* More dictionaries, in more languages, than any other appliance
* Extensive message handling options – including file attachment stripping and corporate disclaimers – enhance the ease of administration

B.Y.O.Q.:"BE YOUR OWN QUARANTINER!"
Thanks to RiskFilter's End User Spam Management, company employees can be responsible for their own spam quarantine. With just a click of a link, e-mails can be deleted, released for delivery, blacklisted or white listed. Taking this tedious task off your IT staff's to-do list is a huge timesaver for them - and a substantial cost-saver for you.
* End-user spam, whitelist and blacklist management
* Saves time and reduces administrative overhead

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

eSafe Gateway

Aladdin

http://www.aladdin.com

eSafe's integrated content security is fast and proactive, preventing known and unknown malicious code, spam, non-productive and inappropriate content from entering your network. It addresses all layers of content security, and delivers superior protection that is easy to deploy and manage. eSafe is a comprehensive, fully-integrated content security solution that addresses all content security layers.

eSafe's Advanced Anti-spam software module blocks more than 95% of spam with less than 0.5% false positives. The eSafe spam filtering software module contains enhanced anti-spam, quarantine management, and spam tagging features. The Advanced Anti-spam module is continually updated from the Data Center.

Some of eSafe's anti spam technologies:
* Black lists - checks if the sending server is in a RBL (Realtime Blackhole List), dial-up or open-relay server list
* DNS verification - checks if the sender is using a valid mail server
* Keyword blocking - blocks spam according to keywords in subject and body
* Anti-spoofing - blocks email masquerading as coming from within the organization – a common spam technique
* Cookies/web beacons - blocks email cookies which help spammers identify the recipient as a "live" email
* Header verifier - inspects various header signatures and blocks spam
* Heuristic analysis - detects and blocks spam based on various email characteristics
* Textual analysis - categorizes spam according to textual content like mortgages, pornography, dental care, etc.
* Spam signatures - an auto-updating spam database allows detection and blocking of spam according to smart signatures
* Spam URL filtering - blocks email with links to spam sources and sponsors
* Spam image filtering - blocks email containing spam associated images
* Auto-updating database - local or remote spam blocking database based on thousands of Spam collecting bots and web crawlers

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

trimMail InBox

Dymeta

http://www.trimmail.com

trimMail Inbox: An easy, powerful, affordable way to protect your mail servers from spam, viruses, dictionary attacks, and other hazards of the internet.

All users are not created equal. Some won't tolerate a single spam in their inbox, while others faint at the thought of a false positive. All system administrators aren't created equal, either. While some want to give users the power to manage their mail, others want total top-down control of the mail stream. With trimMail Inbox, spam scoring, quarantining, auto-deletion, white listing, and black listing are all configurable on a global, domain, and user basis. All of these settings can be enabled/disabled by the trimMail Inbox Administrator.

trimMail Inbox employs standard industry practices, including white listing, black listing, Bayesian filtering, reverse block listing, hash signature, and checksums, to catch up to 99% of unsolicited bulk email with a near-zero false-positive rate.
* Open Relay: Closed
* Dictionary Attack Protection
* Attachment Control
* Privacy Guardian
* Easy to Install
* Easy to Use

trimMail inbox comes in rack-mount or desktop versions.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

CanIt Anti-Spam Solutions

Roaring Penguin Software Inc.

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/

Ads, fraud schemes, porn, viruses, phishing attempts ... if it's junk e-mail, Roaring Penguin's CanIt™ Anti-Spam Solution will stop it before it reaches your mail server. With CanIt antispam software, you maintain control of corporate e-mail and you choose exactly the features and rules that you and your end-users need. Its simple, web-based administrative interface makes fast work of spam management while never losing a valid message. All CanIt products include bundled anti-virus options and source code.

CanIt-PRO Anti-Spam Solution
The professional version offers flexible end-user controls, per-user Bayesian filtering and a web interface for end users. CanIt-PRO is the industry's most flexible anti spam- and virus-control solution. Designed for large and/or distributed e-mail environments including enterprises, campuses, and ISPs, CanIt-PRO filters e-mail efficiently, effectively and affordably. With CanIt-PRO, administrators configure the system and set global policies centrally then make them available to end-users, who enroll via a web interface.

CanIt-PRO provides:
* Cutomizable and scalable spam and virus protection
* Automatic updates
* Inbound and outbound mail scanning
* Per-user Bayesian analysis, whitelists, blacklists, rules and quarantines
* Software or Appliance options
* Simple Administration

CanIt Anti-Spam Solution
Designed for small and medium-sized organizations, CanIt combines high-performance mail filtering with ease of setup and administration. Using the standard version of CanIt™ anti-spam software, a single administrator can implement and manage spam control for an entire organization. Administrators manage CanIt through a comprehensive yet simple web-based interface. Every function required to manage, investigate or report a spam incident is just a mouse click away. CanIt employs a powerful cocktail of common and proprietary mail filtering techniques to effectively and accurately identify, stop and stay on top of spam. One of CanIt's key features is Bayesian filtering, by which CanIt learns what is and is not spam, maintaining and improving its effectiveness over time.

CanIt Appliance
Provides either version of CanIt pre-configured on a plug-and-play server, complete with Clam AntiVirus. Ideal for non-Linux mail environments. Roaring Penguin's CanIt Appliance combines high-performance mail filtering with ease of setup and administration, making it the ideal solution for enterprise environments looking for accurate, plug-and-play anti-spam/anti-virus filtering. Residing between the Internet and your mail server, the CanIt Appliance filters e-mail before it enters your e-mail system.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

PowerElf II Email Spam Filter

Greencomputer Innovation

http://www.greencomputer.com

The PowerElf II's server-side antispam filtering appliance stops spam and phishing e-mail from your network. Unsolicited mail messages not only slows down productivity on the server they also waste end users time by forcing clients to sort messages in order to find relevant emails. It can be used as a standalone mail server or as a proxy mail server, and both operate at the server-level. Combined with our optional military-grade antivirus, the PowerElf II server appliance out-performs the competition.

Plug and Play Spam Server Filter
* Simple, quick set up for complete spam control.
* No software to install.
* Point-and-click GUI interface makes configuration a snap.
* Appliance is pre-configured for an easy set up.

No Per-user Licenses

Auto-Update Service
* Receive new spam filter updates and features automatically.
* Update service is free for all PowerElf II customers.

Will Deploy in any Mail Environment
* Use the PowerElf as a spam and virus filter for your mail server, or use the PowerElf's built-in mail server and have an all-in-one solution.
* Can be implemented as a anti-spam mail filter appliance ( smtp proxy) for your Exchange or ISA server. Simply add it to your network and keep your existing mail server online.
* The PowerElf antispam server gateway appliance filters out spam before it reaches your clients.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

MessageGate Messaging Security

MessageGate

http://www.messagegate.com

MessageGate® Messaging Security is an essential building block of a secure and compliant messaging infrastructure. It combines core reporting, management and administrative functions with a Perimeter Protection application designed to block unwanted e-mail (spam, viruses, phishing, etc.) and extensible features to accommodate 'best of breed' security applications.

MessageGate Security Capabilities
* Unwanted e-mail — proven and effective spam blocking at both strict and liberal company types with on-going effectiveness and accuracy support via ActiveContent
* Extensible architecture integrates to other messaging and enterprise applications.
* Unified management, reporting, and administration of polices and rules via web based interface
* Anti-phishing — protection from emails designed to appear legitimate either from external source (banks for account numbers) or internal (IT for passwords)
* Active Encryption — ensures confidential information security by actively analyzing and requiring encryption/decryption of messages as required by corporate and regulatory policies.
* Anti-virus capabilities provided through 3rd party solution as well as the ability of ActiveContent to block viruses before AV providers can transmit updates.
* High Performance SCOPE™ Filters & Analysis
  o Multi-component Analysis
  o Header, connection, lexical, heuristic, DNSBL, whitelists, blacklists
  o Machine-learning Algorithms
* End-user Quarantine
* Real-time Updates via ActiveContent™ Service

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

Spam Sleuth Enterprise

Blue Squirrel

http://www.bluesquirrel.com/

Antispam server software, Spam Sleuth Enterprise eliminates spam, harmful viruses, web bugs, and phishing scams for your entire organization. The perfect anti-spam solution for ISPs, businesses, schools, governments and other organizations. Works with any e-mail server.

Spam Sleuth Enterprise uses thousands of tests to determine whether an e-mail is a bulk delivery of commercial junk e-mail and quickly eliminates it before it reaches your e-mail server. The administrator can set options for the entire organization, and can choose to give control to users to specify their own settings.

Spam Sleuth Enterprise sits between the Internet and your e-mail server and filters out unwanted junk e-mail containing spam, harmful viruses, web bugs, and phishing scams. Call today to get rid of the spam problem permanently.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

Symantec BrightMail AntiSpam

Symantec

http://www.symantec.com

Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam™ combines effective spam catching with a high accuracy rate that prevents false positives. This award-winning spam protection not only defends against real-time spam attacks, but also proactively identifies first-time spam. With flexible and powerful spam management capabilities, it meets enterprise security needs without imposing a significant administrative burden. Leveraging multiple global operations centers, automated filter updates, and an unmatched view of global spam, Symantec allows administrators to solve their spam problem, not just manage it.

Multi-layered spam protection combines over 17 different filtering technologies that maximize spam detections (95% effectiveness*) and minimize false positives. Some of the filters are reputation-based, examining the source of the email. Others sift through the message content, applying signatures or heuristics technology. Attachment signatures and spam URL filters provide protection against the latest MIME and HTML-based filter evasion techniques used by spammers. Updated filters are automatically deployed to customer sites, requiring no administrator intervention.

Highly effective spam catching is accompanied by the industry’s best accuracy rate—one false positive in every million messages**. High accuracy rates allow customers to safely delete spam without review, eliminating the need to double-check quarantines for false positives.

The solution features a powerful Web-based administration console that includes both an administrator and end user quarantine. Administrators can enforce company or departmental handling of spam and unwanted mail by using policies that perform different actions for different groups or users in an organization. Supported actions include message modification or deletion, forwarding to an administrative email account, or quarantining for administrator or end user review.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

Isode M-Switch Anti-Spam

Isode

http://www.isode.com/

With the widest, most comprehensive range of message interception, handling and monitoring options, M-Switch Anti-Spam is your best defence against spam.

A flexible server-based solution that defeats spam before it reaches the user's desktop, M-Switch Anti-Spam achieves 97%+ accuracy on 'spam' and 99% accuracy on 'possible spam' together with a message processing rate that exceeds 50 messages per second on a small server platform.

M-Switch Anti-Spam intercepts inbound SMTP messages at the boundary of the enterprise or service provider. Messages are opened, examined and if determined not to be spam, delivered to the correct server within the organisation.

If the messages are judged to be spam or potential spam, a variety of handling options are available to administrators to ensure that appropriate remedial action can be taken.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

ModusGate

Vircom

http://www.vircom.com/

ModusGate™ is a secure email management gateway solution designed to fit seamlessly onto existing email infrastructures. Built on fourth-generation technology, ModusGate™ heightens email security with sophisticated management tools including a rock-solid perimeter defense, customizable Sieve scripts, network and user quarantines, dedicated anti-spam and anti-virus engines, email failover and the most accurate filtering available.

ModusGate™ sits in front of any network server and can be accessed and managed remotely through its web-based console. With a flexible design that allows administrators to customize settings, ModuGate™ enables multi-level delegation and facilitates implementation of corporate policies.

Trusted by security-conscious ISPs and businesses, ModusGate™ offers unequalled threat prevention and sophisticated tools for safeguarding and managing inbound and outbound email communications.

ModusGate features
* Timely quarantine reports
* Multi-level whitelists/blacklists
* Multi-level delegation of user settings
* Custom Sieve scripts for ultimate engine control
* Nine-layer perimeter defense that prevents spam and email-borne threats from jeopardizing networks and consuming resources
* Policy manager that prevents leaks of valuable or protected information and helps achieve compliance with emerging privacy laws and rules
* Powerful SCA™ anti-spam engine for the most precise filtering and unmatched false-positive protection
* Customizable Sieve scripts offer greater control over engine behavior and support corporate policy enforcement
* Multi-level self-updates constantly refresh the SCA engine and its spam pattern definitions
* Email caching and failover guarantees fault-tolerant email retrieval and processing
* Network and user quarantines with configurable reports enable customizable attachment blocking and greater user control
* Auto-updated anti-virus guarantees ultimate protection against viruses and malware
* Ultra-Secure Mailbox™ feature lets users receive emails from whitelisted senders only
* 24/7 support option guarantees fast response time and reduces downtime
* Web-based user console facilitates remote set-up & monitoring
* Timely reporting and monitoring gives users important information and statistics
* Industry-leading performance delivers an unbeatable 99.9% false-positive protection and 98.2% catch rate
* Inbound and outbound scanning fortifies corporate security policies and strengthens user trust

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

PreciseMail Anti-Spam Gateway

Process Software

http://www.process.com

PreciseMail Anti-Spam Gateway is an enterprise solution that eliminates spam, phishing and virus threats at the Internet gateway or mail server.
High Spam Detection Accuracy - PreciseMail Anti-Spam Gateway has a proven out-of-the-box spam detection accuracy of 98% without losing legitimate messages.
Easy Centralized Web-Based Administration - PreciseMail Anti-Spam Gateway lets organizations centralize all configuration and management tasks to reduce the cost of deployment and administration.
Customizable to Meet the Needs of Any Organization - Both administrators and users have many customization options. This allows organizations to decide how best to handle spam in their environment.
Intuitive Web-Based End-User Spam Management - Lets users decide what spam is and what spam is not by providing them with tools to tune filter thresholds and decide how to handle suspected spam messages.
Scalable Solution with Data Synchronization Cluster (DSC) - Organizations can reliably manage email filtering on multiple MTAs with a centralized web-based administrator interface using DSC technology.
Flexible Deployment and Authentication Options - This lets PreciseMail Anti-Spam Gateway fit into your existing email infrastructure and not the other way around. With PreciseMail Anti-Spam Gateway, administrators do not have to reconfigure their MTA or changed the way they currently authenticate users.
Comprehensive Graphical Reports - Shows how PreciseMail Anti-Spam Gateway has an immediate positive impact on your organization with useful trending and statistical reports on filtered email.
Optional Virus Protection with Sophos Anti-Virus - PreciseMail Anti-Spam Gateway includes an optional anti-virus module with industry-leading Sophos Anti-Virus software. The integrated anti-spam and anti-virus solution offers complete email protection at the Internet gateway.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 05

ProofPoint Protection Server

ProofPoint Inc.

http://www.proofpoint.com

The Proofpoint Protection Server® is the industry's most powerful and complete software solution for enterprise messaging security. Proofpoint Protection Server defends organizations against all types of inbound and outbound message-borne threats at the enterprise gateway.

* Secures your network against spam, viruses, connection-level attacks and hackers—right at the gateway.
* Proofpoint MLX machine learning technology provides unrivalled anti-spam effectiveness and content filtering accuracy.
* Protects your enterprise from liability created by incompliant or offensive emails.
* Protects valuable intellectual property and trade secrets.
* Easily scales to filter millions of messages per day and unlimited numbers of end users.
* Proofpoint's extensible platform provides a flexible interface for developing custom messaging applications and integrating with external systems.
* Comprehensive end-user controls and group policy support meet the unique needs of every end user.
* Automatic updates and centralized administration keep total cost of ownership low.

The powerful features of Proofpoint Protection Server are also available in a hardened and easy-to-deploy appliance—the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway—with additional security features.

Commercial

Information updated: 05 Oct 05

CommTouch Anti-Spam Enterprise Solution

CommTouch

http://www.commtouch.com

Commtouch Anti-Spam Enterprise Solution 4.1 is the industry's most reliable spam protection platform. It offers an unbeatable combination: near-perfect spam detection, no false positives, and exceptionally easy integration into any enterprise network.

Commtouch 4.1 is deployed network-wide in 30 minutes, by installing an on-premises Enterprise Gateway. Commtouch 4.1 filters traffic for spam, applies rules and facilitates advanced administration functions for IT and users. Most importantly, it communicates with the Commtouch Remote Detection Center in real-time – ensuring that incoming messages are classified using up-to-the-second information on all existing spam outbreaks.

Unique Benefits
* Best detection/accuracy performance: 97% spam detection coupled with the industry's lowest false positive levels Osterman Research
* Real-Time Detection: immediate protection from new spam outbreaks
* Proven Technology: Over 35 million users rely on Commtouch for spam protection
* Absolute flexibility in deployment and administration
* Full user control, without user installation

Commercial

Information updated: 05 Oct 05

MIMESweeper SMTP Appliance

Clearswift Limited

http://www.clearswift.com

The MIMEsweeper family of email security products filter all email traffic whether its inbound, outbound or internal so you can implement:
* Data Leak Prevention – stop the loss of PII and PCI data such as customer data, credit card details, national insurance/social security numbers, as well as confidential information such as marketing plans, product designs and financial disclosures.
* Policy Enforcement – protecting your networks from attack and your people from abuse, intrusion and illegal activity.
* Boundary Hygiene – block attacks in the form of viruses, worms, trojans, phishing and all forms of malware known and not-yet identified

If it moves, filter it. The award-winning MIMEsweeper technology does the following things very, very well:
* Applies your policy to email traffic in real time: allowing you to stop malware and policy breaches and malware before they have a chance to cause damage
* Decomposes and filters all email traffic and attachments in all directions: so that you can secure incoming, outgoing and internal emails
* Takes action based on your rules and thresholds: so that you can deploy flexible, granular tailored to your needs
* Simplifies management & reporting: to minimise impact on IT resources

Four flavors. You can buy MIMEsweepr email solutions in any of four form factors. Each offers best-of-breed technology and world-class manageability.

Commercial

Information updated: 04 Oct 2007

Symantec Mail Security Appliances

Symantec

http://www.symantec.com/

Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series reduces spam volume up to 80% by stopping spam before it reaches the network which significantly contains administrative overhead, network bottlenecks, mail infrastructure costs, and storage requirements. It is the only appliance from Symantec that shapes traffic at the TCP protocol level prohibiting spammers from forcing mail into a protected network. This causes mail to back up on the spammers’ servers so that their infrastructure rather than yours incurs the burden of spam. Since the Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series prevents spam from entering the network, businesses need not worry about compliance regulations that require them to archive spam. Businesses also benefit from lower hard disk and storage requirements.

Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series is easy to install, compatible with any messaging server, and operates transparently in the network. There is no need to modify records or change messaging server configurations. It scales to meet the needs of growing businesses – a single appliance handles up to 750,000 user accounts and email loads in excess of 30 M messages a day. Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series can be coupled with any antispam gateway solution, including Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series appliances, to provide a comprehensive multi-layered approach to combat spam that is easy to deploy and manage. The solution is powered by Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam technology and response which protects over 300 million email user accounts.

Commercial

Information updated: 05 Oct 05

IronPort Appliances with Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam

IronPort Systems, Inc.

http://www.ironport.com

Power at the perimeter. Today's email-borne threats consist of virus attacks, spam, false-positives, denial of service attacks, directory harvest attacks, and phishing (fraud). The IronPort C-Series email security appliances address the issues faced by corporations large and small by uniquely combining powerful performance with preventive and reactive security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. The IronPort C-Series delivers defense-in-depth security with its carrier-proven technology and the management capabilities required by companies of all sizes. Industrial strength email security. For all.

Symantec Brightmail® is the industry leader in anti-spam technology. Their technology protects over 300 million mailboxes and 2,000 businesses from the productivity loss and IT costs of unsolicited commercial email (spam). The IronPort C-Series includes integrated Symantec Brightmail spam-fighting technology. Optimized for IronPort's AsyncOS operating system, Symantec Brightmail technology is extremely high performance and highly accurate. Automatic rule updates are integrated into the platform, requiring zero administrator intervention.

False positives cost companies money – in lost productivity and lost opportunities. Symantec Brightmail has the lowest false positive rate in the industry, with less than one in one million messages being a false positive. This accuracy is only achievable by Symantec Brightmail because of the real-time methods they use to identify spam through their unique Probe Network™.

Symantec Brightmail runs the world's most advanced anti-spam operations center which delivers the most complete and up to date set of filters. The operations center runs 24x7x365 – analyzing spam, generating rules, and ensuring a low false positive rate. Symantec Brightmail writes over 30,000 new rules per day, so you don't have to.

Administrators have several choices on how to handle messages that are flagged as spam by Symantec Brightmail. These choices include: sending the message to a per-recipient web quarantine, marking up the subject header, adding an additional "X-header", sending the message to an alternate folder in the user's mailbox, deleting or bouncing the message, or a combination of these actions. The Symantec Brightmail system shares information with the IronPort C-Series Mail Flow Monitor™, making real-time and historical reports instantly available at any time.

Commercial

Information updated: 05 Oct 05

IronMail Edge

CipherTrust

http://www.ciphertrust.com

The IronMail Edge is positioned at the perimeter of the mail system, controlling traffic at the network border rather than at the mail server or desktop. It relies on TrustedSource, CipherTrust’s revolutionary reputation system, for information about every sender that attempts to connect to the protected enterprise’s mail servers. IronMail Edge is positioned between the Mail Gateway and the Internet, providing total protection at the network border. TrustedSource feeds IronMail Edge a constant stream of information about every sender encountered to ensure the most accurate detection of unwanted messages.

Minimal Ongoing Management
The information provided by TrustedSource allows messages to be rejected or allowed at high speeds, based on a quick IP lookup operation. IronMail Edge maximizes speed and efficiency by caching the TrustedSource data locally, with regular updates streamed from the central TrustedSource server. Using the TrustedSource data, IronMail Edge can take any of the following actions:
* Reject Without Retry Request – When IronMail Edge receives a connection request from a known bad sender, such as a spammer or hacker, it rejects the connection immediately without accepting any data into corporate network. The sender receives an error code telling them not to retry the connection, as it will only lead to another rejection.
* Reject With Retry Request – When a suspicious sender (one that has either not been previously encountered or has sent bad mail in the past) attempts to connect, IronMail Edge will reject the connection, but will ask the suspicious sender to retry. Legitimate senders will receive the request and resend the message, which will be accepted. Conversely, spammers, phishers and the like typically will not retry; resending mass quantities of messages is expensive, and their mass-mailing programs are not written to include “retry” logic.
* Allow Without Conditions – Messages from “good” senders will pass through the IronMail Edge box to the mail server without any processing. IronMail Edge will not acknowledge to the sender that the message has been received until the mail gateway confirms it has received the message.

IronMail Edge is interoperable with all existing mail security gateways and mail servers. Additional functionality provides round-robin load balancing and fail-over between next hops for all mail gateways. If all mail gateways are unavailable, IronMail Edge will write the messages to disk, and will reattempt delivery intermittently until a mail gateway is available.

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Information updated: 05 Oct 05

SpamLion Sender Validation Gateway

SpamLion, Inc.

http://www.spamlion.com/

The SpamLion Sender Validation Gateway is a software application that runs on a computer in your network to protect you from the intrusion of Unsolicited Commercial Email. The computer, running Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003, is in your company network between your mail server and the Internet. The SpamLion Sender Validation Gateway is ideal for businesses that have dedicated Internet access, and have their own mail server.

Although similar to installing a firewall, it is less of a challenge. As with any server product, it is best installed by a network engineer with Microsoft operating systems and Internet expertise (Windows 2000 / 2003 Server installation, and setup of DNS, IIS, and SMTP). Once you have a properly configured Windows server, a planned installation and setup of SpamLion can be completed in 30 minutes or less.

SpamLion products have been designed with the administrator in mind.
* No client software to install and maintain.
* No filters to define and maintain.
* No subscriptions to continually update.
* No more blame when mail gets redirected or lost by your current solution.
All the work is done by the SpamLion automatically adding validated senders to it's database from the addresses of people that you send mail to and by the first-time sender that's required to validate their address before the email will be delivered to you.

Specifications
- Compatible with standardized Internet mail servers.
- Protects with any system that uses the Internet mail standard (SMTP): UNIX mail, Microsoft Exchange, Post.Office, iMail, Lotus Notes, Novell, etc.

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Information updated: 05 Oct 05

The Protector (IPS)

SecPoint ApS

http://www.secpoint.com

WE PROTECT - Today large amount of emails are SPAM the protector stops those SPAM coming into your Mailbox. No matter what kind of email system you got within 5 minutes we can protect your email server for Viruses, Worms and SPAM without rebooting your server. We stop SPAM Viruses and Spyware before it enters your network.

WE PREVENT - Many Script kiddies or Hackers would like to hack you. They cost many organizations a lot of money if they could harm, steal your information or damage your servers. The protector got 8 years of Intrusion prevention experience so it will stop them before they even thinking to enter the network.

WE CONTROL - Many administrators would not like that their users use your fast infrastructure for their pleasure. With the content filter you control the use of the most used application where a firewall can not prevent abuse. Use the Bandwidth for your business not for pleasure so we provide you total control for your network.

YOUR ENVIRONMENT OUR SOLUTION - The Protector fits in all environments ranging from 10 to 1000 or more users. If you want it all you can have it all. The All-In-On Unified Threat Management Protectors are fully loaded with all modules ready to protect your network.

THE SECPOINT PROTECTOR FEATURES:
- Bi-directional scanning of all protocols
- Spyware is blocked from entering the network
- Multiple automated software updates per day
- Module deactivation capability
- Multiple Anti-Virus Vendors supported
- Scalability for LAN growth 1U Appliance, fully loaded
- Intrusion Prevention with Zero Day Protection
- No LAN reconfiguration necessary
- Full POP3 & Smtp Integration
- Wizard configuration set-up
- Advanced Anti-Spam with grey listing
- 2-year hardware warranty 30-day Remote Support

IMAGE SPAM: - The Protector also blocks Image Spam.

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Information updated: 21 June 07

SpamGate Appliance

WorkGroup Solutions

http://www.spamgate.us

SpamGate acts as an email Firewall preventing attacks against your critical internal e-Mail servers. Commercial businesses with 1,000 to 5,000 mailboxes are using SpamGate to filter Spam, Viruses, Hoax email and Phishing attacks. SpamGate supports unlimited users and unlimited domains for an affordable price.

SpamGate uses the strongest AntiSpam Engine available as well as checking each email message against public Internet Spam databases such as DCC, Razor, Pyzor and Real Time Blackhole lists. SpamGate also checks the content of each HTML email message for URI links that are registered as promoting products via Spam mail. The SpamGate is server is updated daily for the latest set of AntiSpam rule definitions and hourly for the latest virus definitions.

SpamGate can be configured with advanced features such as "GreyListing". GreyListing requests the senders MTA to retransmit the first email message before it is accepted. 80% of the spammers will not respond to a retransmit request.

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Information updated: 05 Oct 05

Copperfasten Mail Firewall Appliance

Copperfasten, Inc.

http://www.copperfasten.com/

The Mail Firewall Appliance eliminates unsolicited emails and eradicates email-borne viruses, while providing a cost-effective solution to email for the enterprise.
The Copperfasten™ Mail Firewall Appliance offers excellent cost saving opportunities. An "all in one” appliance based solution, it saves on the cost of buying separate hardware and software. It is ready to go out of the box with minimal configuration and integrates seamlessly with your existing e-mail infrastructure. It has an extensive web management interface which minimse the system management overhead. Its performance in removing viruses and Spam assures increased productivity across your organization.

Full featured offering out-of-the-box
* Spam Filtering of all Email
* Anti Virus Scanning of all Email
* Appliance Based Solution using Unix based OS
* Multi layered mail analysis ensuring maximum Spam elimination
* Automated hourly updates of spam and AV rules
* Includes optional fully functional Email server
* Simple to Configure and Maintain via web interface
* Detailed reporting of Email traffic

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Information updated: 05 Oct 05

TetherFilter Appliances

Tethernet, Inc.

http://www.tethernet.com

Designed specifically for small and medium sized businesses TetherFilter:
* Drastically reduces spam flow into your mail servers and users dekstops
* Installs easily into your existing infastrucutre
* Works alongside any existing anti-spam technologies you may already have deployed
* Removes unwanted attachments and dangerous HTML formatted email
* Stops viruses from entering your network via. email
* Provides a quick, low cost solution to stopping the flow of spam into your organization
TetherFilter incorporates custom algorithms designed to determine the source of electronic mail messages and, with a high degree of accuracy, judge whether they are legitimate. By using content-free technology, TetherFilter does not exhibit the same false positive characteristics of most current anti-spam solutions. And clearly, improperly marking legitimate messages in the electronic equivalent of a garbage can can render a spam worthless to an organization. Specific methods include:
* Email format checking
* Real-time black lists
* Algorithms for detecting automated bulk e-mailing software

TetherFilter also allows system administrators and individual users, who are enabled by the system administrator, to define a sequence of rules to customize TetherFilter behavior. System Administrators can extend default behavior to look for inappropriate, confidential, or potentially dangerous electronic mail messages on the network. The open architecture defined in TetherFilter gives system administrators the ability to dynamically change behavior when high priority emergencies emerge. And throughout the simple and clean web based interface, Tethernet has produced a compelling and powerful tool to remove unwanted mail from your e-mail server. There is no longer any excuse for unwanted electronic mail messages.

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Information updated: 05 Oct 05