Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange

Protect against malware, phishing and targeted attacks, blocking 99% of spam with less than one in 1 million false positives.

Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange brings Symantec’s malware prevention technology directly to your on-premises infrastructure. With real-time email protection against malware, phishing and targeted attacks, organisations will also benefit from the Brightmail technology blocking spam with less than one in one million false positives. Supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, 2010 and 2013 in almost any scenario including Hosting-mode, on Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware virtualisation platforms, Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange complements other layers of protection by preventing the spread of malware and spam attacks and enforcing data loss prevention policies.

Key Features:

Superior Protection:

• Upgraded antispam and antimalware components leveraging Symantec latest protection techniques
  
• Ability to scan messages in transit or on the mailbox to protect against email borne threats
  
• Powered by Premium AntiSpam, stopping 99 percent of spam with less than one in 1 million false positives
  
• Rapid release definitions and advanced heuristic technologies provide immediate protection
  
• Advanced content filtering protects sensitive information using pre-defined policies, regular expressions, attachment criteria, true file typing and more. Microsoft Active Directory based enforcement simplifies policy management

Flexible and Easy to Use Management:

• Initial setup can be completed within 10 minutes with no requirements for tuning, allow listing or block listing
• Management console provides remote installation, centralised server group policy configuration, notifications, alerts and schedulable consolidated reporting
• Support for Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Group, along with Microsoft and Veritas cluster servers in Exchange 2007, minimises downtime and simplifies maintenance
• Integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager enables end-to-end monitoring of your IT environment

Optimised for Exchange:

• Flexible, real-time, scheduled and manual scanning provides efficient protection
  
• In-memory scanning and effective multi-threading provides superior performance
  
• Edge and hub focused scanning leverages anti-virus stamping to eliminate redundant scanning and minimise impact to mail store
• Supports Microsoft Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013, Microsoft Hosted Exchange, 64-bit Windows, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualised environments

Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange - Features

Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange combines content filtering, spam prevention and anti-virus technologies to provide an integrated mail security solution for Microsoft Exchange servers. Automatic scanning and repair capabilities provide high-performance protection against viruses with minimal administrative supervision. Content filtering prevents unwanted content from entering the network and confidential information from leaving it. Inbound and outbound e-mail is scanned including attachments before any other process or client application takes place. Proactive anti-virus filtering filters e-mails based on subject line, message body or attachment and aids in the detection of spam using a combination of layered technologies such as support for third party blacklists, custom match lists, inbound-specific content filtering rules and the ability to create sophisticated filters. Management is centralised via an HTML-based interface and LiveUpdate technology enables administrators to schedule automatic downloads of the latest virus definitions using the NAVEX engine to provide protection against newly discovered viruses without requiring re-installation of the software.

New Features in version 4.6:

• Optional Symantec Premium AntiSpam add-on subscription service provides best-of-breed spam prevention with low administrative overhead and no additional software to install
• Hourly virus updates using Symantec Rapid Release enable organizations to respond quickly to new threats

Features include:

• Scalable e-mail security
• Integrated anti-spam features
• Intelligent content filtering
• Automatic detection and removal of viruses and protection against fast-spreading macro viruses
• Filtering of e-mail by comparing the content to its extension (MP3 files with .txt extension)
• Automatic updates of new virus definitions from Symantec Security Response
• Protection against new viruses without requiring re-installation of software
• Scans and protects public folders
• Supports Microsoft Exchange 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 and Microsoft Exchange 2003.

Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange - System Requirements

Server:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server, Datacentre with SP3 or Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
• Microsoft Exchange 2000 or 2003
• Intel Server class 32-bit processor
• 512 MB RAM
• 190 MB available hard disk space for installation
• 260 MB available hard disk space for remote installation
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later with either of the most recent Service Packs.

Multi-Server Console:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with SP3 or later, XP or 2003
• Intel Server class 32-bit processor
• 135 MB of available hard disk space
• Microsoft Management Console v1.2
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later with either of the most recent Service Packs.