Nowadays companies rely on email more than the telephone to conduct daily business. With growing security threats such as spam and viruses, it is imperative that businesses of all sizes protect their email infrastructures.

Features
The IronPort systems adopt a powerful multi-layered approach to email security by providing advanced threat prevention, blocking spam and viruses, and enabling corporate email policy enforcement.

Spam Protection>
IronPort provides in-depth defense against spam by providing two layers of protection: A preventative outer layer of reputation filters and inner layer reactive filters from IronPort.

IronPort Anti-Spam Filters utilize the industry's most innovative approach to threat detection, based on IronPort's unique Context Adaptive Scanning Engine (CASE). IronPort's CASE examines the complete context of a message, including: "What" content the message contains, "How" the message is constructed, "Who" is sending the message, and "Where" the call to action of the message takes you. By combining these elements, IronPort Anti-Spam stops the broadest range of threats with industry-leading accuracy.

IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters identify and stop viruses hours before traditional virus signatures are available.

Sophos Anti-Virus technology provides a fully integrated second layer of virus protection with the highest-performance virus scanning technology in the industry.

High-Performance Content Scanning Engine
Content Scanning technology enables enforcement of regulatory and acceptable use policies, based on the content of messages. Turnkey HIPAA, SOX, and GLB solutions are also available with this feature.

Compliance Quarantine provides delegated access to emails that have been flagged by the content scanning engine.

Enterprise Management Tools
Email Security Manager is a powerful, graphical management tool that yields fingertip control to manage all email security, including preventive and reactive anti-spam and anti-virus filters, email encryption, and content filtering.

Centralized Management eliminates a single point of failure with superior "peer to peer" architecture, and makes managing multibox installations of IronPort email security appliances simple. The ability to manage configuration at multiple levels allows organizations to manage globally while complying with local policies.

Email Security Monitor delivers complete real-time visibility into who is sending you email, and alerts administrators to suspicious traffic - allowing them to take immediate action.

The IronPort Spam Quarantine is a self-service end-user solution, with an easy to use Web or email-based interface. This feature provides end-users with their own safe holding area for spam messages and integrates seamlessly with existing directory and mail systems.

Benefits
Unprecedented Insight: The IronPort offers very sophisticated management, monitoring, and reporting tools. Each appliance has a unique reporting system, providing both a real-time and historical look at mail flowing through your email infrastructure. IronPort provides system administrators with the necessary information to make critical security decisions.

Lower TCO: The IronPort MTA platform enables massive reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by consolidating email operations and security into a single platform. Self-managing security services provide the lowest-maintenance solution in the industry with minimal configuration requirements.

Improved Network Efficiency: The IronPort Reputation Filtering system was the first in the industry and remains the most sophisticated. In its default settings, it will block over 80 percent of incoming mail at the connection level, saving bandwidth (the message is never accepted) and system resources. CPU-intensive spam and virus filters are only used when needed, and rate limiting is a very effective defense against "hit and run" spam attacks or denial-of-service attacks.

Today's email-borne threats consist of virus attacks, spam, false-positives, denial-of-service attacks, directory harvest attacks, and phishing (fraud). The IronPort email security appliance addresses the issues faced by medium-sized enterprises and satellite offices, by uniquely combining powerful performance with preventive and reactive security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.