M86 Security MailMarshal Secure Email Gateway

Overview:

The M86 MailMarshal Secure Email Gateway (SEG) provides total email content security through unified threat management, anti-spam, content security, policy enforcement and data leakage prevention. It filters all incoming and outgoing email at the perimeter and uses deep content inspection to scan all content, even within email attachments. This gives organizations the control they need to proactively and productively exchange information without worrying about harmful data leaks. Highly scalable, flexible and easy-to-manage, M86 MailMarshal SEG can be deployed as a standalone solution or as a distributed array designed to support the largest networks.

Highlights

	Security from Email-based Threats M86 MailMarshal SEG provides 99.5% spam blocking with near-zero false positives; protects against phishing, viruses, malware and blended threats; and secures inbound/outbound content using deep content inspection of messages and attachments.
	Prevents Data Loss M86 MailMarshal SEG enables organizations to place restrictions on who can send confidential information via email and what data can be sent. It ensures that sensitive communications are secured against prying eyes and provides context-sensitive email archiving, such as storing all messages on a related topic or all email exchanges, with specific domains.
	Improves Productivity The solution ensures that employees spend less time managing spam and helps organizations enforce acceptable use policies to control personal email or other time-wasting, non-business activities.
	Ensures Compliance with Regulations and AUPs Organizations can restrict who is able to send confidential information via email and what data can be sent. M86 MailMarshal SEG also provides context-sensitive email archiving, such as storing all messages on a related topic or all email exchanges with specific domains.

Scalable, Flexible and Easy to Use

Protecting your organization's email environment against spam and malware while managing complex compliance policies and preventing confidential data leakage can be a daunting challenge. M86 MailMarshal Secure Email Gateway (SEG) achieves all this within a single solution that meets the scalability, flexibility and centralized management needs of even the largest enterprises. M86 MailMarshal SEG provides true email security for organizations of all sizes.

M86 MailMarshal SEG is a versatile, powerful and scalable email security system for use in any network environment. It integrates email threat protection, inbound/outbound content analysis, policy enforcement, compliance and data leakage prevention into a single, flexible and easy-to-manage solution.

M86 MailMarshal SEG acts as a gateway to your organization by filtering all email sent and received at your network/Internet perimeter. It blocks incoming email threats such as spam, phishing, viruses, malware and Denial of Service attacks. It also enforces Acceptable Use Policies and ensures compliance with data leakage prevention policies. It can be deployed as a standalone solution or multiple, distributed M86 MailMarshal SEG servers can be easily configured into an array to support the largest networks with centralized management for streamlined administration.

Features and Benefits:

Features	Benefits
Comprehensive Email Security at the Perimeter	Restores the true business value of email Makes email safe and efficient to use Creates a safe working environment
Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine	Provides 99.5% spam blocking with near-zero false positives
Deep Content Inspection Engine	Scans all content, including within email attachments Prevents data loss by securing inbound/outbound content Ensures compliance with AUPs and regulations Maintains productivity Protects against phishing and malware Controls files attached to messages by file type Detects pornographic material in attachments
Scalable Architecture	Provides enterprise-friendly, seamless scalability from 200-20,000+ users
Comprehensive Management Reports	Summary reports show trends and demonstrate ROI to executives Detailed reports allow administrators to monitor employee usage for security breaches or unproductive behavior
Data Loss Prevention Controls	Ensure that sensitive communications are not delivered outside the organization Safeguards business reputation
Email Content Filtering	Checks message content for policy compliance and filters out inappropriate content Provides comprehensive legal liability protection Demonstrates that all reasonable measures to protect employees and enforce policies are in place
Single Management Interface	Ease of configuration and day-to-day administration Cost effective

Benefits

• Secures Your Email Gateway Against All Threats
  ThreatsM86 MailMarshal SEG restores the true business value of email, making it safe and efficient to use. It protects against all email threats including spam, phishing, viruses, malware, blended threats, directory harvesting attacks, DoS attacks and spoofed messages.
• Rapid Return on Investment
  Useful management reports highlight anti-spam and security effectiveness as well as identifying attempted policy breaches, enabling system administrators to demonstrate a rapid return on investment to stakeholders and executives.
• 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, anti-spam updates, and detailed but clear reporting are all part of what makes M86 MailMarshal SEG the ultimate email security solution.
• Enforces Compliance and Data Leakage Prevention Policies
  M86 MailMarshal SEG enables organizations to place restrictions on who can send confidential information via email and what data can be sent. It ensures that sensitive communications are secured against prying eyes. It also provides context-sensitive email archiving, such as storing all messages on a related topic or all email exchanges with specific domains.
• Provides Comprehensive Legal Liability Protection
  Inappropriate/offensive content is filtered out of incoming email and outgoing messages are automatically checked for policy compliance. M86 MailMarshal SEG allows organizations to demonstrate that all reasonable measures to protect employees and fairly enforce policies are in place.
• Improves Network Efficiency And Saves Costs
  By controlling bandwidth consumption, M86 MailMarshal SEG maintains consistent and reliable network performance and prevents excessive non-business email use.
• Improves Employee Productivity
  Implementing M86 MailMarshal SEG means that employees spend less time managing spam and helps organizations enforce acceptable use policies to control personal email or other time-wasting, non-business activities.
• Safeguards Business Reputation
  M86 MailMarshal SEG 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 inappropriate content or offensive conduct.
• Creates A Safer Working Environment For Employees
  Through consistent and thorough application of security and acceptable use policies, issues such as sexual or racial harassment via email can be prevented.

Features

• Best-of-breed protection against spam and phishing
• Protection from viruses, malware and blended threats
• Inbound content security (deep content inspection)
• Outbound acceptable use and compliance policy enforcement
• Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) technology
• Secure, automatic email encryption
• Message Archiving
• Pornographic Image Detection (optional)
• Denial of Service (DoS) and directory harvesting attack prevention
• Reporting and message classification
• Comprehensive enterprise management

Technical Features:

Soultions for all types of organizations

M86 MailMarshal SEG is one of the world's most successful and popular email security solutions. It is used by more than 10,000 organizations, including 40% of the world's Fortune 500 companies. M86 MailMarshal SEG customers range from small businesses with fewer than 25 employees to universities, multi-national corporations and government agencies with hundreds of thousands of users. The majority of M86 MailMarshal SEG customers have used it for more than three years and when asked in a recent survey, 97% said that they would recommend M86 MailMarshal SEG to others. It is renowned for its ease of use, performance and reliability.

M86 MailMarshal SEG can be deployed as a standalone gateway solution or multiple servers can be connected to form an array capable of supporting the largest enterprise environments.

The M86 MailMarshal SEG Array Manager architecture allows you to administer multiple, geographically distributed servers and gateways with consolidated management, reporting, performance counters and central policy configuration. M86 MailMarshal SEG allows you to build a fault-tolerant, load-balanced environment with a minimum of complexity and cost.

The M86 Mailmarshal SEG console provides a dashboard view of your email environment 

The M86 Mailmarshal SEG Configuration is where you define your organization

Threat Protection

Spam & Phishing Protection

• The M86 MailMarshal Defense-in-Depth anti-spam engine combines layers of spam filters for unsurpassed protection, performance and accuracy. It achieves a consistent 99.5% spam catch rate with near zero false positives with no special tuning or ongoing administration.
• Dynamic anti-spam updates are provided via the M86 Security Labs update service every 60 seconds along with weekly heuristic filter updates.
• Includes the M86 IP Reputation Service, which can proactively reject over 50% of incoming spam, enabling significant bandwidth savings.
• Provides proprietary Automated Adaptive Whitelist technology to track your email partners and ensures that messages from trusted sources are not blocked as spam. No need to manually create or maintain whitelists.
• Provides complete anti-spam reporting including individualized reports for employees and comprehensive end-user spam quarantine release functionality.

Virus, Malware & Blended Threats Protection

• Provides seamless anti-virus integration via a range of supported vendors, including McAfee, Norman, Sophos, and Symantec.
• Supports integration with dedicated anti-spyware scanners, including CounterSpy and CA Anti-Spyware for Enterprises.
• The optional M86 Blended Threats Module specifically targets malicious URLs embedded in messages, utilizing the M86 cloud-based malware behavior analysis service.
• Detects and unpacks archive file types, identifying viruses recursively embedded within attachments.
• Identifies and blocks dangerous file types by their content and MIME type, thus detecting mislabeled attachments.
• Provides deep content analysis of all email components to identify and quarantine messages containing potentially harmful code or URL links to known malicious websites.
• Applies virus protection to both incoming and outgoing email and provides full virus and malware reporting.

Denial of Service & Directory Harvesting Attack Protection

• Detects and manages suspicious behavior such as rapid concurrent connections from a single IP address or multiple emails sent to invalid email addresses.
• When suspected Denial of Service or Directory Harvesting Attacks are detected, connection attempts from the offending SMTP server are rejected. Normal service resumes automatically after a defined period.

The M86 Mailmarshal SEG spam quarantine management console (SQM) enables end-users to review spam blocked for them and release messages they wish to receive

Content Analysis

Comprehensive Security

• Enforces any policy based on virtually any message attribute. Control messages based on:
  • Who the message involves (sender, recipient, IP address)
  • What the message contains (spam, malware, keywords and phrases, message size, file attachments, alphanumerical patterns)
  • Actions you would like to take (block, delete, archive, delay, encrypt, copy, notify an email address, strip an attachment, classify the message for reporting)
• Almost any desired policy can be automatically enforced with M86 MailMarshal SEG.

Inbound Content Security

• Take a range of actions on incoming email messages based on any pre-defined condition.
• Reject messages exceeding a specified size limit or messages from any blacklisted IP address, domain or country.
• Control inbound messages based on the presence of restricted file types, the number of attachments or inappropriate keywords.
• Implement policies by user, department, special group or domain – or across the entire organization.
• Provide visibility of the security of incoming email through comprehensive reporting and email notifications.
• Manage email authentication and anti-spoofing through Sender ID and Sender Policy Framework standards support.

Outbound Policy Enforcement and Compliance Management

• Automatically applies policy to outgoing messages.
• Enforces policies related to outgoing message size, attachments, keywords or recipient.
• Blocks profane or inappropriate language in outgoing email.
• Upholds corporate policies and ensures messages comply with legal requirements.
• Automatically adds disclaimers or encrypts communications based on policy.
• Automatically archives all outgoing (and incoming) communications to meet any legal obligations.
• Provides full reporting on outbound email content and attempted policy breaches.
• Provides sample policy templates including SOX and HIPAA.

Data Leakage Prevention

• Features file fingerprint technology to manage the distribution of confidential files and intellectual property.
• Quarantines any restricted file being sent by an unauthorized user and sends notifications to nominated email addresses.

Secure Email

• Provides built-in gateway-to-gateway TLS encryption to secure confidential communications or ensure regulatory requirements are complied with.
• Interfaces to an optional S/MIME PKI encryption module, M86 MailMarshal Secure Email Server (SES). M86 MailMarshal SES provides comprehensive email encryption and digital signing facilities with full certificate/key management and automatically maintains encryption user groups though LDAP.
• Supports M86 MailMarshal SendSecure for Web-based Business-to-Consumer (B2C) secure communication.

Message Archiving

• Automatically archives messages on a daily basis.
• Allows messages to be archived according to conditions such as who the message was from or what it relates to.
• Permits messages to be retained indefinitely or automatically deleted after a defined retention period.
• Makes it easy to locate important messages through powerful search facilities and provides full reporting of archived email.

Pornographic Image Detection (optional)

• Image Analyzer™ for M86 MailMarshal is an optional module for identifying inappropriate or pornographic images using deep image analysis which is applied to a range of supported image file formats.
• Image Analyzer for M86 MailMarshal helps prevent exposure to offensive content and educates users on what is deemed appropriate.

Reporting and Message Classification

• Provides comprehensive security and email activity reporting
• Schedule reports with email delivery options in a range of output formats including Excel, MHTML and PDF.
• Review bandwidth reports by sender, recipient, domain and file-type
• Analyze anti-spam performance by user via individualized Web-based reports.
• Allows you to sort and store messages based on content and run reports on stored messages for auditing.
• View anti-spam/anti-virus performance, attempted policy breaches and identify potential email abusers through security reports.

Enterprise Management

• Provides administrative features designed to streamline maintenance and minimize administrative overhead.
• Automates importing and maintenance of email account information through comprehensive LDAP and Active Directory support.
• Simplifies configuration changes with one-click synchronization to all servers via the M86 MailMarshal Array Manager.
• Consolidates logging and quarantine data so message release can be performed from one central console.
• Enables advanced message management with sophisticated routing and relaying tables and flexible delivery options.
• Summarizes all email traffic information across an array with performance counters and the M86 MailMarshal SEG dashboard.

The M86 Reporting console provides web-based access to a wide range of email reports.

Marshal Reporting Console:

Email and Internet Security Reporting for MailMarshal and WebMarshal

Marshal Reporting Console (MRC) is a web-based reporting suite for MailMarshal SMTP and WebMarshal. MRC is included with MailMarshal SMTP or WebMarshal licenses and provides a single reporting interface to access reports for either or both solutions.

Email and Internet security solutions such as MailMarshal and WebMarshal enforce policy and prevent threats from compromising your network. MRC allows you to measure the results of this security and provides you with detailed visibility into your organization's email and web use.

• MRC enables easy access to reports for a range of stakeholders or interested persons across email and web security. Advanced report scheduling capabilities, a wealth of export formats and delivery options make MRC a flexible and versatile reporting solution for any type of organization.

Features

• Web-based reporting console for MailMarshal SMTP and/or WebMarshal
• Authenticated access for multiple users
• Summary and drill-down reports:
  • EMAIL - email traffic, attachments, quarantined messages, viruses and threats, spam, message content classification, bandwidth usage and cost apportioning
  • WEB - web browsing activity, file uploads and downloads, web threats such as viruses and malicious web sites, website access by URL and category, blocked web requests, quota usage, bandwidth usage and cost apportioning
• Advanced scheduling and automated report generation
• Multiple delivery methods:
  • On screen through MRC interface
  • Email
  • Network printer
  • FTP
  • UNC
  • Local disk directory
• Multiple export formats:
  • On screen - SQL Server Reporting Services
  • PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format
  • XLS - Microsoft Office Excel
  • MHTML - web archive

Benefits

• Visibility into your Internet environment
• Measure and demonstrate Return on Investment (ROI)
• Easy-to-use, convenient and accessible reporting for all stakeholders
• Promote email/Internet security and awareness
• Save time, resources and empower stakeholder
• Measure and improve Acceptable Use Policies
• Enable system administrators to be more efficient and effective
• Educate employees, enforce policies

Hardware Requirements

Processor

• Minimum: Pentium Core 2 Duo
• Recommended: Pentium Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz or higher with 64-bit operating system

Disk Space

• Minimum: 10GB (NTFS) or higher
• Recommended: 50GB (NTFS) or higher

Memory

• Minimum: 2GB RAM or higher
• Recommended: 4GB RAM or higher

Software Requirements

Operating System

• Windows Server 2008 (32 or 64 bit versions, installed as 32 bit application)
• Windows Vista SP1 (32 or 64 bit versions, installed as 32 bit application)
• Windows Server Standard or Enterprise 2003 SP1 or later (32 bit versions)
• Windows XP Professional SP2 or later (32 bit versions)

Database / Components

• SQL Server 2005 with SP2, SQL Server 2005 Express Advanced Edition with SP2, SQL Server 2008, or SQL Server 2008 Express Advanced Edition (Mixed Mode authentication enabled)
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 or above
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Supported Browsers

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or above
• Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 or above

MailMarshal

• MailMarshal SMTP 6.2 or above

WebMarshal

• WebMarshal 6.1 or above

Technical Specifications:

Hardware:
	Minimum	Recommended*
Processor	Pentium 4 or equivalent	Pentium Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz or higher
Disk Space	20GB (NTFS) or higher	160GB (NTFS) or higher
Memory	1GB RAM or higher	2GB RAM or higher
Software:
Operating System	Windows Server 2008 / Windows Vista / Windows Server Standard or Enterprise 2003 SP2 or later / Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 & 2008 / Windows XP Professional SP3 or later (MailMarshal SMTP supports 32-bit mode running on 64-bit operating systems)
Database	SQL Server 2008 / SQL Server 2008 Express / SQL Server 2005 / SQL Server 2005 Express

*These requirements are recommended for up to 500 concurrent Internet users. 

Documentation:

Download the M86 MailMarshal Secure Email Gateway Datasheet (PDF)