Symantec Brightmail Message Filter

Symantec Brightmail Message Filter Overview

Symantec Brightmail Message Filter combines effective spam filtering, high accuracy rate and a flexible, high throughput engine. Deployed at the email gateway, this easy-to-manage solution defends against spam, phishing, viruses, and other unwanted email. With user selectable industry specific filtering capabilities it meets either service providers or large enterprise security needs without imposing a significant administrative burden. Supported by the extensive Symantec Global Intelligence Network, Brightmail Message Filter protects over 800 million mailboxes and over 200 service providers globally.

Feature and Benefits:

Key Features:

• Over 20 different filtering technologies, including proprietary signatures and heuristics.
• 97% antispam effectiveness.
• Fewer than 1 in a million false positive rate.
• Automated spam trend updates every 5-10 minutes.
• Backed by the Symantec Global Intelligence Network with 11 security centers and 29 support centers worldwide.
• Support for numerous major commercial and open source MTA platforms
• Adjustable rules based on service provider and large enterprise needs to provide the best mix of performance and effectiveness in large scale deployments
• Automated spam filter updates backed by the world's largest Global Intelligence Network
• Award-winning Symantec Antivirus protection scans and cleans messages infected with viruses and mass-mailing worms
• Language-based filters to block non–English language spam
• Web-based Brightmail Control Center provides centralized management of multiple servers, role-based administration, and system alerts
• Customized mail policies support flexible actions, such as message deletion, mark-up or quarantine for different groups of users
• LDAP support for authentication and end user quarantine access
• Centralized reporting provides in-depth filtering statistics with visibility across all servers, providing key data on spam filtering performance and the latest spam trends

Key Benefits:

• Award-winning solution leverages multiple technologies, global distributed operations centers, patented spam detection network, and real-time filter delivery mechanism to protect email network.
• Industry's highest accuracy rate ensures users don't miss important email.
• Daily monitoring of accuracy and automatic review of all potential false positives reduce administration overhead.
• Frequent and automatic updates provide latest protection and require no tuning or training of filters by administrators.
• Integrates with Sun Java Messaging Server, Bizanga IMP, Message Systems Ecelerity, Sendmail, Postfix and Microsoft based MTAs, as well as many more.

System Requirements:

Windows

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003
• Intel Pentium 4 processor or compatible
• 512 MB RAM minimum
• 250 MB disk minimum space

Solaris

• Sun Solaris 8, 9, or 10
• UltraSPARC processor
• 512 MB RAM minimum
• 250 MB disk minimum space

Linux

• Linux ES/AS 3.0 or 4.0
• Intel Pentium 4 processor or compatible
• 512 MB RAM minimum
• 250 MB disk minimum space

Documentation:

Download the Symantec Brightmail Message Filter Datasheet (PDF).