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Email Risks & Threats
Although traditional techniques of preventing email-borne virus attacks at the gateway is still necessary, today, spam and data leakage may be a greater risk to your organization. With spam accounting for an alarming and increasing percentage of all emails, the level of risk is higher than ever with the evolution of spam as a serious threat - not just as a productivity drain. This dramatic spam evolution has progressed from simple plain text emails to today's sophisticated and malicious Web-based and social engineering tactics for criminal and malevolent purposes. Spam often contains embedded Web components and links to pull unsuspecting recipients to Web-based phishing web sites, crimeware sites, or infected Web pages making email now the invitation to attacks and infections, with Web 2.0 as the attack and infection point. In addition to email threats, the modern office employee is able to send messages containing confidential, sensitive, illegal, inappropriate and other privacy and security risks outside of your organization. This data leakage problem has grown to epidemic proportions. Email security now is a bi-directional vulnerability that must be viewed as inbound protection from spam and threats with outbound data loss prevention.

Comprehensive Email Security Meets Ease of Use
The BorderWare Security Platform for Email Security is a set-and-forget, all-inclusive messaging appliance that is specifically designed for enterprises to centrally control, protect and manage both inbound and outbound messaging. It is the leading secure email gateway for the prevention of viruses, spam, phishing, and malware outbreaks, including protection from embedded Web links that invite unsuspecting users to malicious infections. Additionally, the BorderWare Security Platform protects outbound content against unintentional or malicious data loss, privacy discrepancies and non-compliance with regulations and company policies.

Purposely-built for organizations of all sizes to lower ownership costs, BorderWare Security Platform was architected to support the needs of ease-of-use with scalability for the most complex and demanding environments. BorderWare Security Platform centralizes the policy management, remediation and reporting of your organization to provide a single, secure point for administration of all inbound and outbound message traffic.

The BorderWare Security Platform delivers:

• 98.3% Connection-Level Rejects 
• Defense-In-Depth For Virus, Spam & Malware Prevention 
• Zero-Hour Malware and Spam Outbreak Response 
• Instant-On Data Loss Prevention For Compliance and Privacy 
• Modular Approach For Consolidated Security 
• Easy-to-Use, Robust Management & Reporting 
• Centralized Policy Management & Remediation 
• On-Demand Clustering & Queue Replication

98.3% Connection-Level Rejects

The BorderWare Security Platform for Email Security integrates and includes the worldwide recognized system for reputation services, the ReputationAuthority, to prevent up to and in excess of 98.3% of all inbound email spam, Web embedded and phishing attacks, and malware threats at the connection level. By performing real-time investigation of content and behavior volume at the connection level, ReputationAuthority is the leading system in the world at protecting your organization from email spam, threats and network attacks of denial of services, directory harvest attacks, and mail flooding.

Defense-In-Depth For Virus, Spam & Malware Prevention

Using a defense-in-depth approach, BorderWare Security Platform's spam prevention has three layers of filtering to achieve a catch rate of over 99% with an accuracy rate of 99.999%. By examining the content, sender information, and conducting contextual analysis of incoming traffic across multiple protocols, the system assigns a categorized and weighted score that enables organizations to throttle and tune their spam.

Zero-Hour Malware and Spam Outbreak Response

The BorderWare Security Platform uses a multi-layered anti-spam and anti-malware detection and inspection system that automatically, in a zero-hour response time, updates the BorderWare ReputationAuthority global system to newly discovered spam, threats and network attacks. By closing the window of vulnerability that occurs between when a newly discovered spam or malware attack first emerges and when the software scanning filters are updated, the BorderWare Security Platform offers the fastest and most sophisticated, automated threat prevention in the world.

Instant-On Data Loss Prevention For Compliance and Privacy

With the BorderWare Security Platform for Email Security organizations have the ability to control the flow of outbound information for adherence to regulations and policies, both internal and mandated. Its instant-on data loss prevention and encryption capabilities are powerful tools in accurately determining email encryption based on content and header data for privacy and compliance.

The BorderWare Security Platform allows you to make the most informed decision on content leaving the organization by utilizing not only content analysis, but incorporating contextual analysis as well (i.e. who is sending the information). The BorderWare Data Loss Prevention solution uses a three-layered approach:

• Content Filtering: Inspects the content to determine what is being delivered, including file types, content, lexicons, pattern recognition (e.g. credit card number), etc., and compares them against the policies you set.
• Contextual Analysis: Applies intelligence to determine, based on your policies, whether the discovered content is coming from a user with privileges to send confidential information (e.g. CFO sending financials to auditors) or a user who is attempting to leak confidential information or mistakenly attaches a confidential file.
• Remediation: Takes actions on messages that are flagged as sensitive, including seamless encryption of data, block, allow, reroute or quarantine.

Modular Approach For Consolidated Security

Unlike other vendors in the industry who offer point products to address email and Web separately, the BorderWare Security Platform allows a modular approach to multi-protocol security on an all-inclusive email and Web appliance. The all-inclusive BorderWare Security Platform appliance provides a powerful and flexible approach to network security by enabling your organization to simply turn on protocol modules for email and Web, resulting in low total cost of ownership and ease of administration.

Easy-to-Use, Robust Management & Reporting

BorderWare Security Platform's management console is a best-in-class administration and control center that consolidated all email and Web features providing a single, easy-to-use interface for security operations of reporting, policy management, policy remediation, on-demand feature enablement, and clustering. The BorderWare Security Platform provides total visibility and control of all email and Web traffic displayed in a secure and delegated administrative Web interface that can be remotely and locally managed. System reports can be accessed with one click away administration and allow for time-, feature-, and group-based reporting that is easily exported or saved on the appliance.

Centralized Policy Management & Remediation

Policy management and remediation of the BorderWare Security Platform enables you to centrally create, control and enforce policies across multiple protocols and lines of business, hence reducing your risks associated with regulatory compliance, corporate violates, intellectual property theft or data leakage. With BorderWare Security Platform's advanced content filtering, management and sophisticated policy controls, you have complete control over your inbound and outbound email and Web communications. Deep granularity and flexibility of attributes of a message or communication, including sender or recipient, groups, domains, content, attachments, or message format allow you to define policies. An intuitive interface simplifies the process of defining sophisticated rules related to any aspect of an email or Web message.

A variety of regulatory-specific dictionaries for HIPAA, GLB and additional regulations are predefined within the BorderWare Security Platform which are easily customized by adding additional terms based upon policy requirements. These dictionaries can include regular expressions for common patterns - such as standard disease, drug, treatment, diagnosis codes, social security numbers, credit card numbers and phone numbers, which you can set up for automatic quarantine to be reviewed by an IT administrator or compliance officer. In addition, custom scanning rules can be set to detect information in organization-specific formats, such as patient identification data and account numbers. The standard pre-defined regulatory dictionaries can be expanded to include terms and codes specific to any organization, or new dictionaries can be added to support additional regulations.

On-Demand Clustering & Queue Replication

The BorderWare Security Platform features on-demand clustering and queue replication, delivering unprecedented linear scalability and dramatically reducing the time and effort administrators spend configuring and maintaining systems.

BorderWare Security Platform removes the need to add new application-specific security appliances as traffic increases. You can increase throughput, maintain superior service levels and ensure resilience by simply configuring one appliance and distributing process across multiple devices. The out-of-the-box technology can scale to support upwards of 100 million messages per hour, enabling you to quickly add systems in minutes. By clustering multiple units together, you remove a single point of failure and ensure that your network infrastructure is always up and running.

The BorderWare Security Platform's message-level redundancy ensures no message or communication is ever lost. Copies of all message and communication queues are replicated across the cluster and are delivered should a member of the cluster be unavailable for always-on network reliability.