Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9
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Symantec has announced the release of Brightmail Gateway 9.0, which offers enhanced email security features, including real-time updates, integrated email encryption, and increased scalability for both enterprises and small businesses. The new version aims to block more spam and targeted attacks while providing greater control over email communications and compliance with data privacy regulations. Additionally, it includes improved performance through a new directory data service architecture and a spam quarantine system to better handle rising email volumes.
Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9
- 1. Symantec Brightmail™ Gateway 9.0 Symantec Brightmail™ Gateway 9.0 Small Business Edition Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 1
- 2. Email Security Trends Message Volume: Spam as a Percentage of Email Volume 100% growth from 2008-2012 419 Spam Spam Volume: PDF Spam Image Spam 90% + of email 90% Phishing HTML IT Budgets: ASCII Simple Text 2% or less growth Regulations: Data Privacy Laws and Cost of Data Breach 8% 2001 2009 Source: Symantec State of Spam Report Severity/Complexity What Customers Need • Effectiveness – Block more threats as attackers innovate • Control – Apply rigorous policies without blocking legitimate business • Scale – Same infrastructure should support increasing message volume 2 Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 2
- 3. Attack Velocity 3 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes 23 minutes Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 3
- 4. Low Volume, High Impact Attacks 419 (Scams) • Often delivered via Web Mail abuse • Potential financial damage is high Phishing (Fraud) • Risk of Brand Damage is high • Attacks are low volume, but increasingly targeted Scams and Phishing Attacks represented 21% of spam in January 2010, compared to 10% in January 2009 Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 4
- 5. Growing Demand for Data Privacy and Encryption Policies Breach Notification Laws • HIPAA • PCI DSS • GLBA • SARBOX • PIPEDA • UK Data Protection Act • etc. Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 5
- 6. What are we announcing • Symantec is announcing the release of Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 and Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 Small Business Edition, which: – Deliver enhanced protection through real-time updates, – Provide greater control through integrated email encryption, and – Offer increased scalability to meet the needs of both enterprises and small businesses. • Symantec Brightmail™ Gateway delivers inbound and outbound messaging security, with effective and accurate real-time antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, data loss prevention, and email encryption. Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 6
- 7. Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 Better • Block more spam as volumes and complexity Protection rise Greater • Better protect and encrypt sensitive, confidential, and regulated information against Control risk of loss Increased • Scale infrastructure cost-effectively in the face Scalability of rising volumes Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 7
- 8. Better Protection Automated Feedback Loop • Streamlined participation in Probe Network • Improves antispam effectiveness – Globally – Tailored to customer traffic Real Time Updates • New streaming model for frequent antispam rule updates • Improves responsiveness to new attacks, increases overall antispam effectiveness Defense Against Targeted Attacks • Advanced machine learning module trained on targeted 419 scams and phishing attacks • Reduces the risk of low volume but high cost attacks from getting through defenses Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 8
- 9. Greater Control Adding Choice in Policy-Based Content Encryption • Symantec Content Encryption, a premium hosted encryption service • Benefits: – Does not require additional servers or key management – Scalable from SMB to Enterprise – Policies are handled by Brightmail Gateway – Hybrid architecture leverages Symantec Hosted Services infrastructure – Message is encrypted and secure at all times on the wire Brightmail Gateway Customer Network Unencrypted Communications Unencrypted Users Email TLS Recipient Server Encrypted Email Policy Encryption Based on Policies Configuration Admin Encrypted/Unencrypted Encrypted Response Based on Config Recipient Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 9
- 10. Increased Scalability New Directory Data Service (DDS) Architecture • LDAP functionality: Brightmail Gateway Brightmail Gateway Scanner Control Center – Recipient Validation – Authentication DDS DDS – Address Resolution (group policies) – Routing • Benefits: – Scalability and performance – Simplified directory structure and expanded directory support – Support for advanced features (Secure LDAP, multiple sources) Directory New Spam Quarantine Architecture Service • Move spam quarantine from relational database to file Active Directory, Domino, SunOne, etc. system • Benefits: – Improved performance with high-speed disk access – Increase scalability by up to 2 orders of magnitude Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 10
- 11. Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition • Targets small and medium-sized businesses with 250 users and below • Same enterprise class protection • Installation in less than 15 minutes • Simple per-appliance licensing • Budget-conscience small business pricing • Available as both a physical appliance and a VMware-based virtual appliance • Limited US launch (physical appliance only) with 8.0 release, global launch (physical and virtual) with 9.0 release Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 11
- 12. The accuracy of Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition is unbelievable. We're blocking around 25,000 spam messages a day, and we haven't had one false positive. And, with the outbound message filtering, I finally have control over the content that leaves our organization -- from now on, email around here is going to be like Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood Sean Adams, IT Manager Bertelkamp Automation Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 12
- 13. Thank you! Forward Looking Statement : This information is about pre-release software. Any unreleased update to the product or other planned modification is subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec and therefore subject to change. This information is provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Customers who purchase Symantec products should make their purchase decision based upon features that are currently available. Copyright © 2010 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. This document is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as advertising. All warranties relating to the information in this document, either express or implied, are disclaimed to the maximum extent allowed by law. The information in this document is subject to change without notice. Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 13
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