Symantec Messaging Gateway

Symantec Messaging Gateway is e-mail gateway installed on the customer's server, and this solution is perfectly integrated with the systems of data loss prevention (DLP – Data Loss Prevention) and means of enciphering of letters.

Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5

The main task of a mail gateway of Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 – protection against undesirable mail taking into account individual needs of each certain user. The producer assures that the Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 system blocks more than 99% of spam, protecting at the same time mail from loss and from interception (due to enciphering). Besides, the packet of Symantec Messaging Gateway supports protection of outgoing messages due to close integration with the systems of data loss prevention and means of enciphering. Deployment of the gateway Symantec Messaging Gateway in the form of the virtual server is in addition supported that provides high flexibility in fight against spam.

Using a packet of Symantec Messaging Gateway of the organization can block undesirable mail using the new tools allowing to define better lines of acceptable incoming correspondence. The packet of Symantec Messaging Gateway offers special tools for processing of advertizing mail and newsletters and also for processing of letters with the suspicious links URL (for example, the reduced links according to which contents it is not clear to what resource they point). Protection against spam in a packet of Symantec Messaging Gateway is supported by information analysis, collected more than from 120 million devices and more than 800 million users from around the world.

The packet of Symantec Messaging Gateway offers the improved integration with a packet of Symantec Data Loss Prevention. Except opportunity for consolidation of these products in a single system the packet of Symantec Messaging Gateway offers option on use in the form of a superstructure to a packet of Symantec Data Loss Prevention. Integration of a packet of Symantec Messaging Gateway with an encryption system of the Symantec Messaging Encryption Gateway Edition mail allows customers to select flexibly between local means of enciphering and external service Symantec Content Encryption which offers enciphering of messages in "cloud".

Control of the gateway Symantec Messaging Gateway can be exercised easily via the convenient unified Symantec Protection Center web console which serves as the uniform instrument of control of all solutions of Symantec for security.

2013: Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.5

Specialists of the research center Symantec Research Labs developed Disarm technology which was a part of Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.5 and offers technology of protection against the directed attacks.

On November 28, 2013 the Symantec company announced an exit of Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.5.

Description

Now the majority of the directed attacks begins with penetration of the malware hidden inside, seemingly harmless documents sent by e-mail. Each such harmful document, for example PDF - DOC-or the XLS file, contains active contents – the means of the attack allowing is reserved to infect the computer of the victim only when viewing the document.

Traditional technologies of protection scan documents, trying to detect in them something suspicious. But the problem is that similar documents are created by malefactors so that nothing in them caused suspicions, and as a result the harmful functionality remains unnoticed. In Disarm technology the different approach is used: instead of scanning of the document its safe copy which goes to the addressee is created. The user never faces malware in the files sent by e-mail. This technology already showed the high efficiency: it agrees to the research conducted by Symantec, being started at the beginning of 2013, the Disarm technology would stop 98% of all directed attacks performed during this time in which malefactors by means of the harmful document operated vulnerabilities of zero day. These unknown before threat with high probability overcame all traditional technologies – heuristic scanning, emulation and even the systems of virtual execution (Virtual Execution, VX) or sandboxes.

More complete information about Disarm and Symantec Messaging Gateway technology is available on the website of the company.