Symantec Launches Email Security Appliances

Symantec Corp. (www.symantec.com), a provider in information security, today announced Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series. Designed to provide a secure email gateway, Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series appliances help ensure an available email infrastructure.

Customers are offered the highest level of spam and virus protection through the integration of Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and Symantec AntiVirus technologies. Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series also integrates volume management, attack prevention, content filtering, encryption, anti-forgery and archiving functionality into a single solution.

"Email is the single most critical channel for both internal and external business communication," said Enrique Salem, senior vice president, gateway and network security, Symantec Corp.

Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series appliances provide a series of email security features including an innovative Email Firewall to significantly reduce the total volume of email. This is enabled by a unique combination of SMTP connection management and attack detection to reduce email infrastructure costs by restricting connections from dangerous servers. Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series offers customers a set of automated and configurable connection management features that go into effect as soon as an incoming connection is detected.

For many organizations, the growing spam problem is one of the most pressing issues faced today. Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series appliances include Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam technology that leverages over 20 spam protection techniques, delivering antispam effectiveness rates of 95% and the industry's highest accuracy rate (99.9999%) against false positives (legitimate email getting categorized as spam).

Today, the majority of malicious code still enters an organization through email, thus it is critical that a best-of-breed email security solution provides strong antivirus capabilities. Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series incorporates award-winning Symantec AntiVirus technologies to provide real-time protection against email-borne threats.

Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series appliances are designed to meet the growing needs of IT administrators for inbound and outbound content filtering. The new content compliance functionality allows IT administrators to gain control over inbound and outbound email content so they can enforce corporate email policies, reduce legal liability and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.