NEWSLETTER - PROTECTING YOUR E-MAIL
E-mail has become an essential tool for business communication, but unfortunately it relies on an infrastructure that is inherently insecure. As spammers and hackers continue to exploit weaknesses in the world's e-mail infrastructure, organisations are faced with a daunting challenge - protecting their networks from a barrage of junk e-mail and inbound attacks, while ensuring the privacy and regulatory compliance of business-critical communication.
Securing e-mail
Currently requirements for securing e-mail typically fall into two categories:
- Inbound e-mail protection - Protecting the inbound e-mail stream from viruses, Spam, dark traffic, and other malicious messages is critical for network efficiency, user productivity and policy compliance. A combination of firewall, anti-Spam, anti-virus, anti-Phishing and anti-hacking products are generally deployed to guard against these threats
- Outbound e-mail security - Securing the information that exits a corporate network is as important as defending the inbound e-mail stream, because misuse of corporate information, data leakage and delivery of improper content can result in significant exposure. Content filtering, authentication and encryption solutions can mitigate these risks
An effective approach to both inbound and outbound e-mail security is to apply protection at the enterprise boundary, where e-mail enters or leaves the corporate network. This strategy simplifies security by allowing administrators to define and manage security policies and measures centrally and universally, without requiring individual users to actively implement them.
Integrated, high-performance solution
To help secure your valuable e-mail resource, Nviron has partnered with Tumbleweed to provide a comprehensive and integrated e-mail security solution – MailGate. Inbound and outbound e-mail security are increasingly related and require common management, threat protection, content filtering, and reporting.
The MailGate suite of products provides complete and high-performance solutions that effectively protect your organisation from a range of e-mail security threats – both inbound and outbound. By implementing the MailGate solution you will be able to:
- Implement effective e-mail security - MailGate products secure inbound and outbound e-mail traffic and stop virus outbreaks, Spam, worms, directory harvest attacks (DHA) and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. MailGate provides e-mail security at the content and network levels ensuring that your most critical communication channel is always safe and reliable
- Simplify regulatory compliance - With the industry's most comprehensive set of e-mail protection, content filtering, and intelligent routing capabilities, MailGate products simplify compliance with regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA, SOX, CA-1386, as well as custom corporate policies
- Protect private information - MailGate products provide industry-leading encryption technology that intelligently protects sensitive information - such as intellectual property
- Reduce communication costs - MailGate products eliminate costly threats which often force organisations to over-scale their e-mail infrastructure. It also dramatically reduces your IT overhead and administrative costs, and improves network throughput
Complete e-mail protection
Unlike other products that rely on third-party solutions for encryption and anti-Spam technology, Tumbleweed delivers best-of-breed, integrated e-mail security solutions that are powerful and easy to manage.
The Tumbleweed MailGate Products Include:
- MailGate Appliance - Complete e-mail security on high-performance appliances that is powerful, flexible and easy-to-manage. Includes network edge defence, anti-Spam, anti-virus, virus outbreak protection, content filtering, policy management and gateway-to-gateway encryption with a state-of-the-art centralised management console
- MailGate E-mail Firewall - A comprehensive, flexible and extensible software solution for inbound and outbound e-mail security. E-mail Firewall provides integrated best-of-breed anti-Spam, anti-virus, deep content inspection, policy management, along with the widest range of encryption options
- MailGate Secure Messenger - A policy-based, secure message delivery product that dynamically applies user-defined encryption and routing policies. It covers the industry's widest range of encryption options including TLS, S-MIME, PGP, and patented Web-based message delivery
For more information on how Tumbleweed can help protect your e-mail, please contact us at this address: nburrell@nviron.co.uk
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