Symantec Brightmail Gateway

The Symantec Brightmail Gateway (formerly Mail Security 8300 Series) delivers inbound and outbound messaging security for email and IM, with effective and accurate antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, and data loss prevention technology. It catches more than 97% of spam with less than one in a million false positives, leveraging continuous automatic updates, global and local IP reputation analysis, and comprehensive reporting to deliver cost-effective protection against new messaging threats.

Key Features

• Industry leading antispam with 97% effectiveness and accuracy of less than 1 in a million false positives, with continuous automatic updates
• Reliable and effective antivirus protection, including zero-day protection, with the only industry record of over 35 consecutive VB100 awards since November 1999
• Advanced content filtering and data loss prevention protects sensitive client data and valuable confidential information
• Comprehensive reporting featuring a dashboard, executive summary and detailed reports demonstrating efficacy and impact while proactively highlighting threat trends and potential compliance issues

Key Benefits

• Protects messaging infrastructure and helps ensure business uptime and user productivity by reducing spam volume and keeping email secure.
• Protects messaging infrastructure and helps ensure business uptime and user productivity by eliminating malware threats.
• Protects company reputation and manages risks associated with data loss, internal governance, and regulatory compliance.
• Reduces administrative costs by removing the complexity of multiple consoles, disparate policies, and incompatible logging and reporting, while demonstrating efficacy and impact of messaging security.

New Features

Symantec Brightmail Gateway appliances feature integrated, award-winning antispam, antivirus, advanced content filtering, and data loss prevention technologies to protect against email-borne threats and control the flow of sensitive data at the SMTP gateway. Customers running earlier versions of the software can take advantage of the following new features:

Better Management

Improved administrative controls and functionality, including new comprehensive reporting, detailed scanner diagnostics, and an optimized message audit log.

• Drive down ongoing administration with streamlined management and reporting.
• Empower administrators with on-demand intelligence and powerful message auditing capabilities.
• Clearly communicate solution efficacy and impact with executives and business users.

Easier Installation

Streamlined bootstrap and installation process to help customers get up and running in minutes with optimized configuration.

• Deliver optimized out-of-the-box performance with simple guided installation process.
• Promote best practices for product configuration.