F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper

F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper Overview:

F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper provides the first line of protection for businesses. As it operates as a separate Internet gateway, it frees corporate servers to provide their service free of viruses, spam and other hostile or questionable content. By deploying F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper, the performance or e-mail servers is directed to real business communication allowing stakeholders to enjoy a spam-free e-mail experience.

F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper is a high-performance and fully automated antivirus and content filtering solution for protecting corporate e-mail and web traffic at the Internet gateway. In addition to virus protection, the solution provides spam filtering, content filtering and access control. F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper does not only improve security, but it is also improves employee productivity, reduces legal liability concerns and saves network badnwidth.

Today's Challenges:

Companies are facing new challenges in protecting their network traffic and keeping their productivity at a high level. Many companies are already familiar with e-mail borne viruses and are learning how to protect against them. This is why virus writers have started to invent new ways to attack corporate networks. Viruses can spread via both e-mail and Web traffic, surprising even data security experts with its speed and effectiveness. In addition to viruses, spam and other unwanted emails create productivity losses, security conserns and legal liability risks.

The Solution:

F-Secure® Internet Gatekeeper™ is a high-performance and fully automated antivirus and content filtering solution for protecting corporate e-mail (SMTP) and web traffic (HTTP, FTP over HTTP) at the Internet gateway. In addition to virus protection, the solution provides spam filtering, content filtering and access control. Thus, the solution does not only improve security, but it also improves employee productivity, reduces legal liability concerns and saves network bandwidth.

Features & Benefits:

Key Features:

• High performance and reliability combined with low total cost of ownership
• Virus protection for e-mail (SMTP and POP), web traffic (HTTP) and file transfers (FTP)
• Stops unwanted content based on file type
• Internet Traffic can be in anonymous mode
• Can block ActiveX/Script (JavaScript/VBScript)
• Decrypts and scans encrypted zip files, stopping encrypted viruses
• Spam filtering, SMTP and POP Real-time Black List (RBL) and filtering by e-mail subject
• E-mail filtering using spam identification headers
• Can be deployed as transparent proxy server
• POP before SMTP authentication supported
• Easy to use local or remote management
• Automatic virus definition updates

Virus protection for e-mail and web traffic
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper stops hostile content. When deployed between corporate network and the Internet it ensures that viruses are not able to enter or leave the corporate network. F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper features zero hour virus protection and virus outbreak management that offer immediate security against emerging virus outbreaks. Combining both traditional signature-based detection and zero hour virus protection, F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper keeps a company or organization protected from the very first minute on outbreak starts.

Content filtering
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper offers protection against viruses and undesired file types-like movie files, sound files and other non-work related content - it does not so by allowing the administrator to define local policy to strip attachments based on file size, type or name.

Automated spam filtering
Optional F-Secure Spam Control detects and filters annoying and offensive spam messages from organizations e-mail traffic automatically, transparently and frees time for productive work.

Access control
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper allows administrator define policy that prevents employees from visiting non-work related web sites or sending private e-mail via free e-mail messaging services on the Web.

All-inclusive compatibility
F-Secure Internet Gatekeepers relies into open standards, thus it interoperates with any firewall and e-mail system, scanning web and e-mail traffic passing through the gateway.

Local and remote user interface
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper provides a web based and easy-to-use local user interface. For larger deployments, F-Secure Policy Manager can be used to centrally administer all F-Secure Anti-virus products.

High performance and reliability
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper interoperates with any external network component, firewall, and e-mail system. As the interfaces for associated systems are open standards-based, the resulting system is both reliable and offers the best performance against investment.

Automatic virus definition updates
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper incorporates a fully automatic update service that updates the antivirus definitions several times a day. You can always be sure that you are properly protected even against new viruses without having to check the status of the product. On top of the automatic update service F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper features zero hour virus protection, and virus outbreak management that cut down the delay of an antivirus update for new emerging threats.

Specifications:

Supported Platform:

• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows 2003 Server

System Requirements:

• 512 Mb memory
• x86 Compatible Processor5Gb Diskspace

Supported Languages:

• English

Screenshots:

Status Screen of SMTP Scanning: F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Mail

Status Screen of HTTP Scanning: F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Gateways

"Virus found" Screen

 

Documentation:

Download the F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper Datasheet (PDF).