NEWSBRIEF

Proactive Threat Management

Advanced SPAM filtering : Get Serious about Email Archiving

August 2002

EMAILBOX SIZE & CONTENT MANAGEMENT - SPAM REDUCTION - PROACTIVE INTRUSION "PREVENTION" - EMAIL & IM ARCHIVING - ENCRYPTED EMAIL - PERFORMANCE METRICS & ALERTING - WEB & EMAIL THREAT MANAGEMENT

IN THIS ISSUE:

Advanced SPAM filtering with Mailsweeper 4.3

Expert says Get Serious about Email Archiving now! - start planning for EmailXtender 4.3 

Active Folders Content Manager for Exchange now available

Entercept 2.5 receives Analysts Choice from E-Week

IN PREVIOUS ISSUES:

July: TOPPER proactive Server Performance Monitor adds realtime charting capability

June: PST Attender provides Content Management for 
Outlook & Exchange PST files

May: Financial Probes Put Pressure On Wall St. to Track & Archive Messaging

April: Intrusion Detection... is that your final answer?

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Advanced SPAM and Content Filtering with MAILsweeper SMTP 4.3
June of 2002 saw an increase in spam attacks to 4.8 million from 879,000 in June of last year. The percentage of all email that is spam has risen from 7 percent a year ago to between 12 and 15 percent today. MIMEsweeper's MAILsweeper for SMTP delivers advanced SPAM management capabilities. New version 4.3 adds:

Changes to the underlying technology have improved overall message processing speed, while also giving more attention to the resilience of the system - in particular, protection against potential 'unpack attacks'. Email with malformed addresses can be accepted and automatic intelligent attempts are made to correct the addresses. Overall throughput improvements are 40%-100%.

The addition of a "Getting Started Task Pad" provides a quick and easy way for users to access key MAILsweeper tasks, new Wizards, the online Help system and system information. The Policy Wizard facilitates the whole process of building an email policy, whilst supporting Wizards facilitate the process of creating the individual policy components

Improved file format handling, including support for PPT, PDF, Windows XP and installer files

Improved LDAP support for Active Directory, Exchange 5.5 and Domino.

Improved attachment stripping: The attachment stripping functionality has been added to the following scenarios: Content Scanner, File Detector, MIMEsweeper scenarios for 3rd-party AV tools, Virus Manager.
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Expert says Get Serious about Email Archiving now! - start planning for EmailXtender 4.3
As witnessed by the Securities and Exchange Commission fining six financial services firms a total of $10 million for not retaining e-mail properly, Messaging guru Michael Osterman believes Email Archiving will come to a head for most companies within 6 months. Now is the time to start considering the deployment of a product like EmailXtender.

EmailXtender 4.3 is a comprehensive, policy-based system that automatically collects, organizes, retains and retrieves email messages/attachments. EmailXtender creates and manages an independent and portable archive of email messages and attachments, frees saturated email server and PST space, retrieves messages from an hour ago or years ago, by authenticated user, admin or supervisor and manages email as a record of business, in accordance with rules of evidence and regulatory requirement, using the EmailXaminer module.

4.3 introduces improved performance, de-duplicating of messages, improved compression and SQL 2000 support.
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      Click Here to see how EmailXaminer meets SEC reporting regs

Active Folders Content Manager  now available
Active Folders Content Manager is an application that searches the Exchange information stores (public and private) for content matching the search criteria set by the administrator. The message and attachments are searched by an NT / Win2k service that is installed on a dedicated server or installed on the Exchange server.
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Entercept 2.5 Intrusion Prevention Receives Analysts Choice from E-Week
"Testing Entercept reminded us of how limited network IDSes (intrusion detection systems) are. Most are signature-based, so they don't detect new attacks or variations on old attacks, and they don't detect attacks in encrypted traffic such as HTTP over SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). Since it plugs into the Web server, Entercept handles SSL traffic fine".

"Most important, IDSes don't block attacks, they just record that they are happening. Although IDS reports are useful for post-attack analysis, making them a key part of a security strategy is only for the truly fatalistic IT manager."
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