Symantec announces next-generation mail security solution
New integrated content filtering is intended to help organisations to protect against data leakage, while ensuring compliance with external regulations and internal corporate policies related to e-mail content.
“The threat landscape has evolved dramatically in the last 18 months. Today it is not just about keeping threats out of an organisation, but ensuring that confidential corporate data stays inside the organisation,” says Patrick Evans, regional director of Symantec Africa.
“Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series proactively protects a company’s confidential information from both internal and external threats.”
The Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series is said to feature integrated, best-of-breed anti-spam, anti-virus, and extensive content filtering technologies that stop inbound and outbound e-mail threats.
The expanded list of content filtering tools includes per-domain and policy-based TLS message encryption, incident management, and keyword and regular expression scanning inside all parts of a message including attachments, Evans adds.
According to Symantec, the Mail Security 8300 Series also delivers day-zero virus prevention that aims to minimise the period of vulnerability between the detection of a new virus and the dissemination of anti-virus definitions.
Leveraging the Symantec Probe Network’s real-time visibility into attachments crossing the Internet and onsite heuristics and analysis, suspicious attachments that exhibit qualities of viruses and mass-mailing worms can be identified and rerouted to a queue, where they are held until definitions are available, Evans concludes.
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