MailMarshal SMTP Email Security

MailMarshal SMTP Email Content security and anti-spam

Overview

MailMarshal SMTP is a total email content security solution for organizations of all sizes. It unifies anti-spam, email threat protection, content security, policy enforcement and data leakage prevention into a highly scalable, flexible and easy-to-manage solution.

MailMarshal is an SMTP email filter designed to act as a gateway between the Internet and your trusted network. MailMarshal SMTP supports any SMTP email server such as Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange Server or GroupWise.

MailMarshal acts as an email gateway to your organization by filtering all incoming and outgoing email at your network/Internet perimeter. MailMarshal blocks incoming email threats such as spam, phishing, viruses, malware and Denial of Service attacks. MailMarshal also enforces acceptable use policies and ensures compliance with data leakage prevention policies.

MailMarshal can be deployed as a single standalone solution. Or, multiple, geographically distributed MailMarshal servers can be easily configured in an array to support the largest of enterprise environments with minimal administration.

MailMarshal SMTP Diagram

MailMarshal SMTP is the world’s most capable, powerful and scalable email security system. It is renowned for its ease of use, performance and reliability. According to many MailMarshal customers, “it just does what it says it does on the box.” MailMarshal is utilized by more than 18,000 customers including forty percent of the Global Fortune 500 companies.

Benefits

Secures your email gateway against all threats

MailMarshal restores the real business value in email by making it safe and efficient to use. MailMarshal's multilayered Defense-in-Depth anti-spam engine protects against all email threats including blocking spam, phishing, viruses, Trojans, worms, denial-of-service attacks, directory harvesting attacks and spoofed messages.

Delivers rapid Return on Investment

Comprehensive and meaningful management reports highlight anti-spam and security effectiveness as well as identify attempted policy breaches, enabling system administrators to demonstrate a rapid return on investment.

Provides low Total Cost of Ownership

Easy deployment, minimal administration overhead, consolidation of all email security functions into a single management interface, along with Zero-Day security updates and detailed but clear reporting, are all part of what makes MailMarshal the ultimate email security solution.

Fulfill compliance obligations and data leakage prevention policies

MailMarshal enables Organizations to place restrictions on who can send confidential information via email, what data can be sent and ensures that sensitive communications are secured against prying eyes. MailMarshal also provides context-sensitive email archiving such as storing all messages on a related topic or all email exchanges with specific domains.

Provides unrivalled legal liability protection

Inappropriate or offensive content is filtered out of incoming email and outgoing email is automatically checked for policy compliance. MailMarshal allows enterprises to demonstrate that all reasonable measures to protect employees and consistently enforce policies are in place.

Improves network efficiency and saves costs

By controlling bandwidth consumption, MailMarshal maintains consistent and reliable network performance and prevents excessive non-business email use.

Improves employee productivity

Implementing MailMarshal means that employees spend less time managing spam and helps organizations enforce acceptable use policies to control sending personal email or other time-wasting, non-business activities.

Safeguards business reputation

MailMarshal upholds organizational acceptable use policies. It prevents the unauthorized distribution of confidential or sensitive information via email and ensures that users are not in a position to embarrass your organization through defamation or inappropriate email use

Creates a safer working environment for employees

Through consistent and thorough application of security and acceptable use policies, issues such as harassment become totally preventable.

Features

Unsurpassed protection against spam, phishing, viruses and malware
Denial of Service and Directory Harvesting Attack protection
Inbound Content Security
Outbound Policy Enforcement and Compliance Management
Data Leakage Prevention
Secure Email Encryption
Message Archiving
Pornographic Image Detection(optional)
Reporting and Message Classification
Easy Administration

More MailMarshal features

Technical Specifications/Architecture

MailMarshal SMTP works automatically, straight out of the box. It is designed to deliver consistently high message throughput and spam and phishing detection upfront while conserving server resources and minimizing administration. Most customers are successful by simply installing it and walking away.

Deployment

MailMarshal SMTP is designed to be deployed as the first receiving email gateway in your organization. It is typically deployed in the DMZ between your network firewall and the trusted internal network.

Typical MailMarshal SMTP Installation Scenario

A typical MailMarshal deployment with MailMarshal acting as the email gateway.

MailMarshal can be deployed in a standalone configuration with database logging and the administration console located within your trusted environment. MailMarshal is also specifically designed to support multiple distributed mail processing servers configured in an array. The array is managed centrally by the MailMarshal Array Manager which can control and manage multiple nodes. Administration can be performed locally or remotely via the MailMarshal Web Console.

System Requirements

Processor	Pentium 4 or higher
Disk Space	10GB (NTFS) or higher
Memory	512MB or higher
Operating System	Windows Server Standard or Enterprise 2003 OR Windows XP Professional SP1 or later
Database	MSDE 2000 SP3a or later OR SQL 2005 Express OR Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP3a or later OR SQL Server 2005 Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.7 or later

Please note: MailMarshal SMTP does not support 64-bit versions of Windows

Marshal Software Ltd.

Marshal is the global leader in Integrated Email and Internet Content Security solutions. More than seven million users in 18,000 companies worldwide use Marshal's highly acclaimed MailMarshal and WebMarshal solutions to protect their networks, employees, business assets and corporate reputation and to comply with corporate governance and legislation requirements.

Additional Resources

Datasheets

MailMarshal SMTP Enterprise MailMarshal SMTP SMB

Whitepapers

Marshal Anti-Spam Solution Overview

MailMarshal SMTP Architecture

MailMarshal SMTP SMB Guide

Case Studies

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