Proventia Network Mail Security System: Features

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Today's mail security problem is multifaceted. Our multi-layered solution is designed to address the complete spectrum of security threats affecting your e-mail infrastructure.

Protection Features

• Antispam Technology – Proventia Network Mail offers unmatched antispam technology, including a multi-dimensional 10-Step Analysis Process. Proventia Network Mail's more than 20 analysis modules can be further customized to meet the needs of your unique messaging environment. Proventia Network Mail can be quickly configured to block spam using default policies. ISS spam protection technologies combine daily updates with fresh spam data (signatures, URLs, etc.) from the ISS Global Data Center and local e-mail scanning technologies for highly efficient spam filtering.
• Anti-Phishing – Proventia Network Mail includes built-in protection for your employees against e-mails targeting their personal information.
• Dynamic Host Reputation Filtering – Proventia Network Mail analyzes the behavior of IP addresses to help detect and control the spam flood at the connection layer, preventing many spam messages from reaching your employee or administrator quarantines and decreasing strain on your network bandwidth.
• Compliance – Proventia Network Mail includes customizable analysis modules to enforce outbound content compliance and acceptable use policies.
• Proventia Filter Database – World's largest and most up-to-date filter database, includes 100+ million entries based on analysis of 8.8 billion URLs, Images, and Spam Heuristics.
• End User Control – Each end user is empowered to create their own Allow and Block lists, giving each personalized control over his own spam preferences. More advanced end user control is possible as defined by an administrator.
• Email Encryption – Proventia Network Mail supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) for encrypting messages between e-mail gateways.
• Granular Policy Management – Proventia Network Mail affords instant access to rules configuration for ease of use, lessening the burden on administrative staff. Granular policy access includes simple rules-based policy creation (i.e., who – what – when – action) and more than 10 different action types (i.e., modifications, notifications).
• Sophos behavioral genotype anti-virus technology – Analyzing both incoming and outgoing e-mail in parallel with antispam policies, Sophos behavioral genotype anti-virus technology helps block undiscovered zero-day virus threats in real time. When combined with traditional signature-based antivirus, you have an unprecedented level of virus protection, helping you avoid costly outbreaks.
• Remote Malware Detection – This technology combines the benefits of behavioral anti-virus with the global reach of our filter database, addressing viral attachments collected in the Proventia Filter Database's spam traps.
• Intrusion Prevention System – Both Proventia Network Mail and your mail server are protected from attack. Proventia's multi-faceted protection engine combines multiple analysis and detection methodologies for optimum accuracy.
• High Performance – Proventia Network Mail protects at the speeds necessary to keep your messaging infrastructure at optimum productivity.¹

Management Features

• Centralized Management System – Reporting and administration are also fully integrated with Proventia Management SiteProtector™. Proventia SiteProtector is used to manage Proventia Network Mail—together with other ISS solutions—in accordance with your overall security strategy with minimum staff and operational costs. SiteProtector scales easily for large global enterprises and capitalizes on 10 years of security research and experience, utilizing world-renowned X-Force® threat analysis.
• Web-based Local Management – Proventia Network Mail's web-based local management interface (LMI) simplifies device setup, management and monitoring.
• Clustering / High Availability – Proventia Network Mail supports large or high-demand enterprises. With no separate management console required, customers can easily manage multiple boxes through one appliance.²
• World Class Support – ISS offers 24/7 global support and service for all components of Proventia Network Mail Security System, including platform updates, technical support and Advanced Exchange replacement.

Contact Us
Fill out our contact form or call 1-800-776-2362 in the U.S. to arrange for a demonstration of the Proventia Network Mail Security System or the all-new Proventia Network Mail Security System – Virtual Appliance.

1	Performance of MS1002-VM is dependent upon choice of hardware.
2	MS3004N only.

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