Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition

Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition Overview

Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition is an easy-to-use appliance that protects email and IM from viruses, spam, phishing, botnets, and spyware. It is available as both a physical appliance and a VMware-based virtual appliance. With Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition, companies can effectively respond to new email threats at a minimal ongoing cost.

The Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition is a dedicated appliance that protects email and IM from viruses, spam, phishing, botnets, and spyware. Supported by a Security R&D team that is 50% larger than other products , this solution catches more than 99% of spam with no requirements for tuning, allow listing, or block listing. With no per user fees and available as a VMware-based virtual appliance, the Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition can be implemented on your existing hardware, making it one of the most affordable gateway appliance solution available.

Feature and Benefits:

Key Features:

• Self-learning appliance catches more than 99% of spam with 99.9999% accuracy, leveraging continuous automatic updates from the world’s most extensive Symantec Global Intelligence Network.
• Out-of-box installation with zero ruleset maintenance and no tuning is required
• Advanced content filtering prevents valuable confidential information from leaving the company
• Reliable and effective antivirus protection, including zero-day protection, with over 40 consecutive VB100 awards since November 1999

Key Benefits:

• Provides peace of mind protection for your email and IM environments so you can focus on running your business.
• Simple to install and deploy with minimal management so you can save time and money.
• Smart Investment with the world’s #1 security software vendor so you are well positioned to grow.

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 Protection

• Automated Feedback Loop – Streamlined Probe Network participation allows customers to provide local real-time threat intelligence back to Symantec, improving antispam effectiveness tailored to the customer’s environment.
• Real Time Updates – New communication architecture allows Brightmail Gateway to download antispam rule micro updates as frequently as every second, to better defend against new threats and improve overall effectiveness.
• Improved Defenses Against Targeted Attacks – A new antispam module applies machine learning to better target distributed low volume attacks such as 419 spam and phishing attacks.
• Support for DKIM – Symantec Brightmail Gateway can sign and verify DomainKey Identified Mail (DKIM), allowing companies to protect their email domain against abuse by spammers.

Greater Control

• Symantec Content Encryption – A new premium add-on service to Symantec Brightmail Gateway, Symantec Content Encryption integrates Brightmail Gateway’s powerful advanced content filtering and data loss prevention policies with a hosted encryption service to allow customers to encrypt sensitive outbound email without managing any additional infrastructure.
• Improved Incident Management – Configurable incident folder management reduces the effort spent managing quarantined compliance and data loss prevention incidents, including the ability to automate remediation options.

Increased Scalability

• High-Performance LDAP Integration – New LDAP integration architecture scales support for recipient validation, authentication, address resolution, and email routing based on a company’s LDAP infrastructure to very large enterprise deployments.
• Robust Spam Quarantine Architecture – New Spam Quarantine architecture leverages high-speed disk access to improve performance and increase scalability by up to two orders of magnitude.

Specifications:

System Requirements:

Appliance Platforms

• Symantec Brightmail 8340 appliances
• Symantec Mail Security 8340 appliances

Virtual Hypervisors (Virtual Edition)

• VMware ESX 3.5 (rev 4 or later)
• VMware vSphere 4.0
• VMware ESXi 3.5 (rev 3 or later), ESXi 4.0

Browser Requirements (Administrative Console)

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
• Firefox 3.0, 3.5

Screenshots:

Dashboard
The Dashboard provides a convenient snapshot of the appliance, including recent spam, virus, and compliance trends. The Dashboard also includes current appliance status, date of definitions, date of license expiration, and other useful top-level information.

Executive Summary
The Executive Summary provides a top-level summary of spam, content filtering, and virus filtering on your messaging traffic. The Executive Summary highlights recent trends and potential emerging threats to your messaging infrastructure.

Virus Summary
The Virus Summary includes both graphs and tables on recent known and potentially viral activity. Reporting can be run on an ad hoc basis or set on a recurring schedule and can be exported to different file formats or sent via email to specified recipients.

Spam Summary
The Spam Summary highlights spam patterns in graphs and tables, and can be set to run on different granularity, from hourly data to daily, weekly, or monthly patterns.

Compliance Summary
The Compliance Summary highlights potential compliance violations on inbound and outbound messages. The appliance has a full range of configurable actions that can be set for each compliance policy including: creating an incident, holding the message for review, and deleting the message, amongst others.

Reputation Summary
The Reputation Summary highlights the usage of IP reputation by the appliance to determine a connection’s legitimacy. IP reputation is used to make both good and bad judgments on incoming connections. The summary also includes a detailed breakdown of good and bad reputation profiles in order to highlight emerging patterns and potential attacks.

Documentation:

Download the Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition Datasheet (PDF).