F-Secure Spam Control for Microsoft Exchange

F-Secure Spam Control for Microsoft Exchange Overview:

Less Spam, More Productivity

F-Secure® Spam Control™ provides highly effective protection against spam in the Microsoft Exchange environment. It automatically detects and filters spam messages from an organization’s e-mail traffic, leaving more time for productive work.

Unsolicited e-mails, better known as spam, are a continuously growing threat for corporate mail systems. Spam messages waste company resources by consuming server capacity, reducing employee productivity and endangering the network security. Companies lose huge amounts of money each year because of spam. F-Secure Spam control is needed to protect company resources from the flood of spam messages. F-Secure Spam control detects and filters annoying and offensive spam messages and removes them automatically and transparently from organization's email traffic, releasing time for productive work. The automatic spam detection is based on the advanced content analysis and categorization used by the F-Secure Spam Control engine.

Today's Challenges:

When 30% of all your incoming e-mail is pure rubbish that you don’t want, you start getting irritated. When the number is closer to 50% you start getting mad. But when you open your e-mail account and over 90% of your inbox is filled with junk messages from people you don't know, you start giving up and find yourself using a telephone or fax to get things done more smoothly.

The Solution:

F-Secure® Spam Control™ detects and filters annoying and offensive spam messages from organizations email traffic automatically, transparently and frees time for productive work. F-Secure Spam Control engine detects spam automatically using advanced content analysis and categorization. High accuracy detection rates are achieved and maintained by scanning email using multiple filtering mechanisms and updating the product with frequent automatic updates from F-Secure Anti-Spam Lab.

Real-Time Protection against Spam

F-Secure® Spam Control™ automatically detects and filters spam messages from an organization’s e-mail traffic by using advanced content and traffic pattern analysis and categorization. It provides real-time protection against all types of spam, regardless of its content, format or language.

The solution protects users from new spam outbreaks instantly. High accuracy detection rates are maintained by global e-mail traffic analysis, by scanning e-mail using multiple filtering mechanisms, and with frequent automatic updates from the F-Secure Anti-Spam Lab.

Features & Benefits:

Key Features:

• Advanced content analysis technology
• Runs and updates automatically
• Seamless integration to F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange
• Flexible administration and configuration
• Centralized or local administration

Easy to Install, Use and Maintain
F-Secure Spam Control is easy to install and manage together with award-winning solutions, F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper or F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. Together they create a secure and comprehensive content inspection and filtering solution. Just enable the F-Secure Spam Control option and your messages will be inspected and filtered for spam.

Advanced Content Analysis Technology
High accuracy detection is achieved as F-Secure Spam Control monitors, evaluates and identifies suspicious e-mail traffic based on advanced analysis of the content.

Flexible Configuration
Spam can easily be dropped already at the server level. Alternatively, it can be filtered at the users' email client giving users the ability to view and retrieve spam messages from a specific spam folder, if needed.

Automated Updates for Spam Control
The spam detection update files are delivered frequently to keep the detection rate high and accurate. Spam database updates are provided by F-Secure Anti-Spam Lab using the same technology and sytems that are used for Secure virus definition updates.

Centralized or Local Administration
F-Secure Spam Control can be administered centrally with F-Secure Policy Manager. As a stand-alone installation F-Secure Spam Control can be administered locally using F-Secure Web Console

How Does F-Secure Spam Control Work?

F-Secure Spam Control classifies messages based on multiple categorization methods, such as the email body and header analysis.

In a message body, F-Secure Spam Control checks items that have a high likelihood of being spam messages. Spam indicators can be, for example, regular phases such as "As seen on TV!" or "Buy Online!", or other content items like words in which some letters have been replaces by special characters but that are sill clearly legible ("Office X,P PrOfess!onal"). F-Secure Spam Control also analyzes the structure of the message body to find strange or irregular items or types of text, such as very small or large text.

In a message header, F-Secure Spam Control analyzes different issues. It check if the message header items are in the standard order or if the date or time is incorrect to attract attention.

The main idea is that if a rule matches something in a message, certain points are given. The points are then summarized and a score is given to the message. Based on the configuration, the message is tagged as spam and action is taken.

Most Efficient Solution
F-Secure Spam Control filters spam at the gateway level before it reaches end-user mailboxes, which allows end-users to concentrate on their business-related tasks.

F-Secure Spam Control enables high spam detection rates with easy administration. With F-Secure Spam Control, companies can significantly improve the employee productivity, save IT resources, and improve security.

Specifications:

Support Platforms:

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange version 6.30 and later:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 (7.10)
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (7.10)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Windows Server 2000

System Requirements:

System Requirements (7.10)

• Processor: AMD Opteron/Athlon x64 or Intel Xeon with Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T)
• Memory: 1GB of RAM
• Disk space to install: 300 MB
• Disk space for processing: 10 GB or more
• Network: 100Mbps Fast Ethernet NIC, switched network connection
• Other: A CD-ROM drive is required if you are installing the product from CD-ROM.

System Requirements (6.62)

• Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2GHz or faster
• Memory: 1GB of RAM
• Disk space to install: 260 MB
• Disk space for processing: 10 GB or more
• Network: 100Mbps Fast Ethernet NIC, switched network connection
• Other: A CD-ROM drive is required if you are installing the product from CD-ROM.

Support Languages:

• English

Documentation:

Download the F-Secure Spam Control for Microsoft Exchange Datasheet (PDF).