M86 MailMarshal Email Content Manager

Overview:

M86 MailMarshal ECM (formerly M86 MailMarshal Exchange) is a flexible, scalable email policy management solution for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010. Using deep content inspection technology, it simplifies compliance by ensuring inbound, outbound and internal email—including text, images and file attachments—adhere to data loss prevention and AUP requirements. Its scalability, centralized management and reporting, ease of deployment and minimal administration overhead make M86 MailMarshal ECM the most robust, yet cost effective internal email security solution available.

Highlights

	Simplifies Regulatory and AUP Compliance M86 MailMarshal ECM enables organizations to easily set and enforce a wide variety of policies. In addition to pre-set templates (HIPAA, SOX), rules can be customized based on virtually any message criteria. Plus, it can auto-archive, retrieve and store messages based on custom criteria.
	Prevents Data Loss M86 MailMarshal ECM prevents accidental or malicious data loss using email monitoring and filtering, deep content inspection of attachments, fingerprint technology and lexical dictionaries that can manage distribution of sensitive content.
	Enterprise-friendly The solution's array/node architecture enables robust, unified, company-wide reporting and centralized policy management for enterprise environments. It also supports the Microsoft Exchange high-availability model for essentially no downtime.
	Lowers Total Cost of Ownership Easy deployment, limitless scalability, minimal administration overhead and consolidated and centralized management, along with detailed, centralized and clear reporting in one solution, make M86 MailMarshal ECM one of the most cost effective internal email solutions available.

Features and Benefits:

Benefits

• Simplify Compliance Requirements
  Easily set and enforce a wide variety of policies. In addition to pre-set templates (HIPAA, SOX), rules can be customized based on virtually any message criteria: who (sender/receiver), what (keywords, virsues, message size, files, patterns); and how (block, delete, archive, notify). MailMarshal ECM can also autoarchive, retrieve and store messages based on custom criteria.
• DLP
  Prevent accidental or malicious data loss with email monitoring and filtering, deep content inspection of attachments, fingerprint technology and lexical dictionaries that can manage distribution of sensitive content. If potential data loss is identified, restricted files can be quarantined and email notfications can be sent to users and managers.
• Enterprise Scalability
  New array/node architecture enables central policy management and reporting for seamless scalability from 200-20,000+ users. The new architecture also supports the Microsoft Exchange high-availability model for essentially no downtime.
• Low Total Cost of Ownership
  Easy deployment, limitless scalability, minimal administration overhead, consolidated and centralized management along with detailed, centralized and clear reporting in one solution make MailMarshal ECM one of the most cost effective internal email solutions available.
• Optimize Network Efficiency and Improve Productivity
  File size and bandwidth control help minimize non-business email, traffic and storage. These controls keep users on task and network bandwidth available for business-critical applications.
• Reporting and Message Classification
  Robust, centralized reporting set MailMarshal apart from other email solutions. The MailMarshal Reporting Console (MRC) includes several IT-friendly report templates including:
  • Bandwidth Reports by sender, recipient, domain and file type
  • Sort and Store messages based on content then recall stored messages for auditing
  • Security Reports on attempted policy breaches and potential email abusers
• Image Identification and Detection
  Even images can be identified and mitigated if neccessary. With deep image analysis, sophisticated body/facial recogntion algorithms can recognize inappropriate images in attachements, including pornography.

Compliance-friendly dashboard and reporting include numerous pre-set templates with drill-down capabilities.

Robust categorization and storage features simplify message tracking, quarantine management and auditing requirements.

Technical:

M86 MailMarshal ECM (MailMarshal Exchange) uses an Agent which plugs into the Exchange Server message queue. The MailMarshal Exchange Agent retrieves messages from the Exchange queue before they reach the Exchange message store. These messages are then processed by the MailMarshal Exchange Engine which applies deep content inspection and enforces your policies. Messages that breach policy are then removed from the processing queue and are typically placed into the MailMarshal Quarantine folder. Messages which pass inspection are reinserted into the Exchange Message queue.

MailMarshal Exchange Operation

M86 MailMarshal ECM 7.0 supports Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2007. MailMarshal Exchange 5.2 supports Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2000. The specific architecture for MailMarshal Exchange integration differs slightly between versions of Exchange Server.

M86 MailMarshal ECM/MailMarshal Exchange has a small impact on overall Exchange message throughput. The impact on Exchange depends on your environment and message volume. As a typical guide, expect a 15% increase in message processing time.

Software Requirements:

M86 MailMarshal ECM 7.0 is supported in the following environments:

• Email processing nodes:
  • 64-bit OS only
  • Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, SBS 2008 SP2
  • Exchange Server 2007 SP2 or SP3; Exchange Server 2010 SP1
  • Active Directory
  • Hub Transport Role
  • 8.3 file name creation must be enabled
• Array Manager:
  • Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, SBS 2008 SP2
  • 64-bit OS preferred (required for single-server installation)
• Console and Configurator:
  • Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, SBS 2008 SP2
  • Windows XP Professional SP3 (32 bits only)
  • Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 RTM or SP1
  • 64-bit OS preferred
• Web Components:
  • Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, SBS 2008 SP2
  • 64-bit OS preferred
  • .NET Framework 4
• SQL Server:
  • SQL Server 2005 SP3, SQL Server 2005 R2
  • SQL Server 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008 R2

M86 MailMarshal ECM is a 32-bit application.

(For MailMarshal 5.2/5.3 requirements please refer to the technical documentation for each version).

Note: You cannot install the M86 MailMarshal ECM Web components on Windows 2003 (IIS 6) together with Exchange 2007 Client Access Role (Outlook Web Access). Microsoft does not support side-by-side installation of 32- and 64-bit Web applications to Windows 2003. If the M86 MailMarshal ECM website is required in this scenario, install it on another server.

Documentation:

Download the M86 MailMarshal Email Content Manager (ECM) Datasheet (PDF).