Symantec Brightmail 9.0 Tier 2 Release

It catches more than 99% of spam with less than one in a million false positives, leveraging real-time automatic updates, global and local IP reputation analysis and comprehensive reporting to deliver cost-effective protection against new messaging threats.

What's new in the latest version of Symantec Brightmail Gateway appliance software?

Version 9.0 of Brightmail Gateway contains several enhancements. This latest version includes:

Better Protection:

• Automated Feedback Loop - Streamlined Probe Network participation allows you to provide local real-time threat intelligence back to Symantec, improving antispam effectiveness tailored to the your 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 DomainKey Identified Mail (DKIM) - Brightmail Gateway can sign and verify DKIM, allowing companies to protect their email domain against abuse by spammers

Greater Control:

• Symantec Content Encryption - A new premium add-on service to 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 you 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

Improved Manageability:

• Support for SMTP Authentication - SMTP Authentication allows mail clients to authenticate and connect directly to Brightmail Gateway without connecting to a groupware server

find out more

For further information contact your Phoenix Account Manager on 0845 265 1265 or email info@phoenixs.co.uk