F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway, Virtual Appliance

F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway, Virtual Appliance Overview:

F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Appliance brings the benefits of server virtualization to the enterprise messaging security market. It offers the same perimeter sesecurity, antispam, antivirus, secure messaging and outbound content security capabilities found in F-Secure's award-winning hardware appliances as an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance for VMware's virtualization products.

Today's challenges:

For many corporations e-mail is still the most important business communication channel. At the same time security threats like viruses, phishing and spam continue to flood in from the Internet. In enterprise networks the amount of unwanted e-mail in many cases can exceed 60% of the total incoming e-mail traffic. For this reason, e-mail is increasingly becoming a productivity and security nightmare. Users are also sending out e-mails that might contain sensitive information that could put business at risk. Furthermore, managing and controlling e-mail security in large-scale deployments can be a challenging task.

F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway P-Series appliances are designed to handle tens of millions of messages per day and enable easy deployment and management of clustering. Multiple filtering, or agent servers can be managed from one master server.

• Read about F-Secure's messaging security solution for enterprises
• Read about F-Secure's messaging security solution for SMBs

The solution:

F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway, Virtual Appliance offers all of the same anti-spam, anti-virus, secure messaging, data privacy and intellectual property leak prevention features found in F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway, P-Series appliance in an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance for VMware’s virtualization products. It combines a robust, enterprise-class MTA with perimeter security, anti-spam, antivirus and outbound content security capabilities in an easy-to-deploy, virtual appliance.

Features & Benefits:

F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Appliance delivers the same best-in-class protection as F-Secure's hardware appliances, combined with the many benefits of virtualization - including cost savings, rapid deployment and provisioning, simplified change mangement, easy backup and disaster recovery:

• Secures your network against spam, known viruses, emerging virus outbreaks, connection-level attacks, and hackers - right at the gateway.
• Proofpoint MLX machine learning technology provides unrivalled antispam effectiveness and content filtering accuracy.
• Protects your enterprise from liability created by incompliant of offensive emails.
• Protects the privacy and security of customer and employee data.
• Protects valuable intellectual property and trade secrets.
• Deploys in just minutes by simply loading into your VMware environment, including VMware Server or WMware ESX (available in Q1/2007)
• High-performance MTA proven in the most demanding enterprise e-mail infrastructures.
• Hardened and vulnerability-tested virtual appliance exceeds enterprise and government security requirements.
• Integrates with enterprise identity management systems such as Active Directory, Domino Directory, and other LDAP sources.
• Intelligent perimter security features such as MLX Dynamic Reputation and SMTP rate control protect against malicious connections including Denial-of-Service and Directory Harvest Attacks.
• A true "zero administration" solution with unified policy management and robust reporting features.

Secure. Effective. Easy to deplay.
Those are just a few of the ways to describe the F-Secure Messageing Security Gateway Virtual Appliance. It's the industry's most powerful messaging security solution - packaged as asn enterprise-ready virtual appliance that offers:

• Unbeatable spam detection
• World-class virus and outbreak protection
• Comprehensive content security
• Policy-based message encryption
• Impenetrable email firewall
• Enterprise-grade performance
• Rapid deployment & provisioning
• Easy backup & disaster recovery
• Optimal scalability architecture
• Futureproof technology

All-in-one messaging security
Why purchase yet another point solution? F-Secure's messaging security platform provides comprehensive defense against both inbound threats and outbound content security risks - and F-Secure's modular architecture lets you easily deploy new defenses as your needs change.

Spam Detection
Powered by MLX machine learning technology, the F-Secure spam detection module examines more than 200,000 structural and content attributes in every e-mail to block the most spam and phishing attcacks, automatically adapting to new attacks as they appear. And the F-Secure Dynamic Update Service automatically keeps your spam protection up to date, ensuring maximum effectiveness at all times. Individually controllable spam and adult content scores allow you to enforce zero-tolerance policies against pornographic spam. Antiphishing features stop the spread of phish and other identity theft attacks from stealing personal information from employees. F-Secure Spam Detection is multi-lingual and offers outstanding accuracy against spam in any language - including hard-to-analyze, multi-byte character languages such as Japanese and Chinese. And F-Secure Spam Detection can be uniquely customized to the environment and lexicon of each organization.

Virus Protection & Zero-Hour Anti-Virus Defenses
Deeply integrated virus engines provided convenient, centralized administration of antivirus policies from the same interface used to manage spam and content policies. Messages are efficiently scanned for viruses in parallel with spam and message content, protecting end users from viruses, worms, and other malicious code. Additionally, the optional F-Secure Zero-Hour Anti-Virus module protects against emerging viruses in the earliest stages of their proliferation on the internet-hours before competing solutions even begin to react.

F-Secure E-mail Firewall for complete perimeter security
The integrated Email Firewall provides the SMTP-level perimeter security features demanded by today's enterprise, creating an impenetrable shield around your messaging systems. Proofpoint's MLX Dynamic Reputation technology and SMTP rate control features work together to protect your network from all types of malicious connections.

MLX Dynamic Reputation and SMTP rate control
Proofpoint MLX Dynamic Reputation technology constantly monitors SMTP connections at the IP address level, looking for suspect or malicious activity. F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway mointors the number of connections, type of activity, and content of messages coming from each IP address. MLX machine learning techniques are used to analyze network activity in real-time and assess the risk associated with each connection. Based on this analysis, F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Appliance takes automatic, corrective action using SMTP rate control. Malicious connections are auotmatically blocked or throttled based on full customizable mail traffic policies. The E-mail Firewall provides an impenetrable defense against a wide variety of network-level attacks, including Denial-of-Service, Dictionary, and Directory Harvest Attacks, keeping your network and email users safe while preserving network bandwidth.

Benefits both lab and production deployments
F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Appliance is ideal for enterprises that have adopted or are moving to the VMware environment. All of the benefits of virtualization can be realized with the virtual appliance including:

• Cost savings related to infrastructure simplification: Reduced hardware, power, cooling and space requirements.
• Reliability, backup and disaster recover: Snapshots of an entire enviroment can be easily taken and restored at any time leveraging VMware's infrastructure management tools.
• Deployment and scalability: New virtual servers can be rapidly deployed on existing hardware. F-Secure's optimal harizontal scalability architecture allows new virtual appliances to be provisioned in minutes to address chaning email requirements. Any number of virtual agent appliances can be deployed at zero incremental cost on top of existing F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway P-series hardware or Virtual Appliances.
• Change management: New versions and configuration changes can be tested in a zero-risk environment using a snapshot of the production environment.

F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway hardware appliance customers can deploy the Virtual Appliance in lab or test environments free of charge. New virtual test environments can be quickly brought up or taken down on an as needed basis.

Key features:

• The offering enables our customers to take the full benefit from their virtualized environment without investing to dedicated security appliances
  
• Secures your network against spam, viruses, connection-level attacks and hackers-right at the gateway
  
• Proofpoint MLX™ machine learning technology provides unrivalled anti-spam effectiveness and content filtering accuracy
  
• High-performance and scalable master-agent architecture is proven in the most demanding enterprise email infrastructures
  
• Optional F-Secure Zero-Hour Anti-Virus module protects against new viruses and other forms of malicious code during the critical first hours after new viruses are released and before anti-virus signatures have been updated
  
• Easy to use management through web browser and detailed graphical reporting with more than 40 reports
  
• Hardened and vulnerability-tested virtual appliance exceeds enterprise and government security requirements
  
• Integrates with enterprise identity management systems such as Active Directory, Domino Directory and other LDAP sources

Specifications:

Supported Platforms:

• F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway, Virtual Appliance supports VMware Server 1.0.1. Support for WMware ESX 2.5 and 3.0 will be available in Q1/07.
• F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway, Virtual Appliance is also available in free 45-day trial version that allows easy way for to test the solution without the actual hardware appliance.

Browsers:

All configuration and administration is handled through F-Secure's 100% browser-based interface. Supported browsers include:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
• Mozilla Firefox 1.2 or higher
• Netscape 7.0 or higher

Documentation:

Download the F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway, Virtual Appliance Datasheet (PDF).