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Symantec™ Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition
Symantec Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition delivers inbound and outbound messaging security, with effective and accurate antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, data loss prevention, and email encryption. It catches more than 99% of spam with less than one in a million false positives, leveraging real-time automatic updates, global and local IP reputation analysis, and comprehensive reporting to deliver cost-effective protection against new messaging threats. Symantec Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition is tailored for businesses with fewer than 250 users.
What’s New?
New Verdicts: New configurable verdicts for unwanted email categories allow customers to create policies for specific policy groups that can take actions on marketing mail, newsletters, and email with suspicious URLs.
- Enhanced Spam Scanning: Updates to the Brightmail Antispam Engine allow better scanning of text-based attachments for spam and malicious URLs
- Match Logging: Enhanced message audit logs capture matching policy, text, and message part for content filtering policies
- TLS Logging: Enhanced message audit logs track TLS delivery status, allowing confirmation of TLS delivery for auditing
- Software Update: An improved software update process within the Control Center UI allows for staging of updates and rich logs and update status. Note that this enhancement will impact updates subsequent to the 9.5 release
- More Flexible Backup & Restore: The restore process has been enhanced to allow a backup to be restored to a new host while preserving network configuration, enabling easier appliance migration and disaster recovery
- DNS Validation: Customers can configure a new reject action for connections based on failure of DNS validation via reverse DNS look-up.
Upgrade Information
Based on Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition’s annual software and services subscription model, there is a very simple upgrade path. All customers who have purchased earlier versions of the Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition product and have current subscriptions have access to Symantec Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition 9.5. The product’s administrative console includes an integrated update function that clearly indicates when new software versions are available and automates the updating process.
Current Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition customers will need to upgrade to Brightmail Gateway 8.0.3 before upgrading to Symantec Messaging Gateway Small Business Edtion 9.5 and all future releases. Customers running Brightmail Gateway 8.0.3 or ensuing releases have the ability to upgrade to the new software on a staggered release schedule starting in March 2011.
New customers who receive appliances with Brightmail Gateway 8.0.3 or 9.0.x will be offered the upgrade to Messaging Gateway 9.5 during installation.
Crossgrade Information
Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition is an upsell/replacement sale for current Mail Security for SMTP customers or enterprise Symantec Brightmail Message Filter (formerly Brightmail AntiSpam) customers that are interested in the additional features and functionality of the Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition. There are no special crossgrade SKUs, the standard Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition 9.5 SKUs may be used for crossgrades.
Marketing Description
Symantec™ Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition is an easy to use email security appliance that delivers effective and accurate antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, data loss prevention and email encryption. It catches more than 99% of spam with less than one in a million false positives, leveraging real-time automatic updates, global and local IP reputation analysis, and comprehensive reporting to deliver cost-effective protection against new messaging threats. With no per user fees and available as a VMware-based virtual appliance, Symantec Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition can be implemented on your existing hardware, making it one of the most affordable gateway appliance solution available.
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