QTS Solution Spotlight:
Symantec Brightmail Antispam Filter

Overview

Symantec Brightmail Antispam is technology that lets you control inbound and outbound email, by applying content filtering rules.  Brightmail includes a robust anti-spam agent which classifies possible spam based on a comprehensive database of spam signatures, as well as on content rules you can create.  It is a logical complement to, and enforcement tool for, your Information Security Policy.

Symantec Brightmail Antispam runs on a Windows 2000 or 2003 Server, ideally situated in your DMZ.  As such, it can serve as an SMTP "screening server" and act as the recipient of Internet mail for your organization.  This way, mail is content screened before it reaches your internal mail server, thus protecting that server from access directly via the Internet, and reducing disk storage needs on that server.  It can also run on your Exchange or Domino mail server, in smaller environments.

Key Benefits

Symantec Brightmail Antispam provides a number of benefits, including:

• Ability to block most spam, including the ability to reduce false positives by passing along but tagging potential spam.  Spam blocking saves staff time and improves productivity, while reducing server disk space usage;
• Improved security for your email server and messaging environment, by using Brightmail as a "proxy" or screening server for inbound traffic;
• Reduce risk of proprietary information leaving your organization via email, through configurable content rules on outbound as well as inbound messages.

Additional Information

Contact your QTS account manager for more information on how Symantec Brightmail Antispam can fit into your environment, and what benefits you would realize.

This site last updated 09/05/04
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