SpamRazer™ - A powerful anti-spam engine

SpamRazer is a powerful anti-spam engine that has been designed for ease-of-use. Due to frequent updates, SpamRazer needs no tweaking to be fully effective in filtering the latest spam attacks. Not only will administrators benefit from out-of-the-box filtering but they will also gain protection from each new attack without the need to tweak GFI MailEssentials. With SpamRazer filtering, greylisting, IP reputation filtering, Bayesian filtering and other advanced anti-spam technologies, our spam capture rate is over 99%. GFI MailEssentials also has an enviable low rate of false positives ensuring the safe delivery of important emails.

Server-based anti-spam and anti-phishing

GFI MailEssentials is server-based and installs on the mail server or at the gateway, eliminating the deployment and administrative hassle of desktop-based anti-spam and anti-phishing products.

A server-side solution will prevent your server message stores from filling up with spam and eliminate the need to train your users on the creation and update of anti-spam rules.

Bayesian filtering: an advanced method to detect spam

Bayesian filtering, which uses a mathematical approach based on known spam and ham, is an effective way to catch spam.

GFI’s Bayesian filter has a tremendous advantage over other spam solutions that only check for keywords or rely on downloading signatures of known spam as it uses an advanced mathematical formula coupled with a dataset that is custom-made for your installation: Spam data is continuously updated by GFI and is automatically downloaded by GFI MailEssentials, whereas the ham data is automatically collected from your own outbound mail. This means that the Bayesian filter is constantly learning new spam tricks; spammers cannot circumvent the dataset used. This results in an exceptionally high spam detection rate, after the required automated two-week learning period. In short, Bayesian filtering has the following advantages:

• Looks at the whole spam message, not just keywords or known spam signatures
• Learns from your outbound email and therefore greatly reduces false positives
• Adapts itself over time by learning about new spam and new valid emails
• Dataset is unique to your company, making it impossible to bypass
• Multilingual and international

Virus checking with multiple scanning engines

GFI MailSecurity uses multiple antivirus engines to scan inbound email.

Using multiple scanners drastically reduces the average time required to obtain the latest virus signature, enabling a faster response to combat the latest threats. Each antivirus software engine has a different response time to each new virus, depending on where the virus was discovered, and other factors. By using multiple antivirus engines, GFI MailSecurity gives you a much better chance of having the right defense, at the right moment, to combat the latest attack. Since each engine has its own heuristics and detection methods, each one brings its own strength to your email environment for detecting a particular virus and its variants. Multiple antivirus engines, as provided by GFI MailSecurity, mean better virus protection.

Scan for trojans and malicious executables

The GFI MailSecurity Trojan and Executable scanner detects unknown malicious executables by analyzing what an executable does.

A trojan (or malicious executable) is software that enters the victim’s computer undetected, granting an attacker unrestricted access to the data stored there. The Trojan and Executable Scanner takes the approach of using built-in intelligence to rate an executable's risk level. It does this by disassembling the executable, detecting in real time what it might do and comparing its actions to a database of malicious actions. The scanner then quarantines any executables that perform suspicious activities, such as accessing a modem, making network connections or accessing the address book.

Norman virus control and BitDefender included

GFI MailSecurity is bundled with Norman Virus Control and BitDefender.

Norman Virus Control is an industrial strength antivirus engine that has received the 100% Virus Bulletin award over 30 times running. BitDefender is a very fast and flexible award-winning antivirus engine that can recognize and scan a strikingly wide range of formats. GFI MailSecurity automatically checks and updates the Norman Virus Control and BitDefender definition files as they become available. The GFI MailSecurity price includes updates for one year.

Network defense

Almost all spam and email threats can be blocked before they reach the customer's network – reducing risk, freeing up network bandwidth and easing mail server load.

Continuity

Customers can continue accessing, responding to, and sending email messages, even in the event of an on-premise mail server or network outage; mail is queued by the service, and customers can continue accessing or responding to those messages via the GFI MAX MailProtection control panel, even while their own mail server is off-line.

Zero-hour virus protection

Block new or emerging "zero hour" virus threats before those threats can be detected by traditional signature-based AV solutions.

Inbound spam filtering

Improve productivity of servers and employees by reducing the volume of junk mail getting through an existing anti-spam solution.

Outbound spam filtering

Prevent inappropriate messages or attachments from being sent from a customer's network or from a specific user, thereby protecting the company’s reputation and alerting administrators as to the presence of any infected workstations or 'zombie' machines, so that those systems can be handled appropriately.

Directory harvest attack prevention

Defend against spammers who attempt to deliver messages to a large number of valid and invalid email addresses at your domain.

Intuitive web-based control panel

The customizable web-based control panel allows administrators and users to control the service, while providing access to quarantined messages as well as to queued mail in the event of an on-premise mail server failure.

Denial of service attack (DoS) prevention

Prevent email-based DoS attacks by limiting and controlling inbound SMTP traffic from one or more given source IP addresses.

Hosted individual junk mail quarantines

The service can retain detected spam messages in the control panel outside of the company's network, while allowing each user to access these messages at any time to check for any genuine mail that may have been caught by the spam filters.

Individual junk mail digests

Users can view a convenient, automatically emailed summary of detected spam messages, with a link next to each message to allow the user to identify and release from the quarantine any potential false positives.

The digest messages can be scheduled as infrequently as once per week or as frequently as three times per day.

Platform-neutral

Works with any operating system or mail infrastructure including Exchange, Lotus Domino, GroupWise, Zimbra, qmail, postfix, sendmail and any other SMTP server.

Controlled access to the configuration and monitoring interface

GFI WebMonitor allows you to select which users can access the program’s configuration and monitoring interfaces.

GFI WebMonitor allows you to select which users can access the program’s configuration and monitoring interfaces. You can assign rights based on either the IP of the computer from which access is being made or the domain-authenticated username of the client trying to load the configuration. Only users in GFI WebMonitor’s authorized users or IP list will be given access.

Monitor or block a connection in real time

Administrators can see what websites users are currently browsing and what files are being downloaded.

An active connection, browsing session or download can easily be blocked, simply by clicking the block connection icon. This proves very useful if you need to interrupt the download of an overlarge file.

Top policy breakers

GFI WebMonitor reports details on all users who were stopped by GFI WebMonitor from breaching your company's Internet Usage Policy.

Such breaches may include browsing restricted sites, downloading of malware infected files or file types that are blocked through download control policies.

Allow exceptions through whitelist and blacklist

Any URL or user or IP can be added permanently or temporarily to the whitelist or blacklist which will supersede all web filtering and web security policies.

For example, you could temporarily grant access to a particular user for his or her personal webmail account for a specified period of time, say over employee lunch breaks.

Proxy caching

GFI WebMonitor implements caching, such that files and other objects/resources are delivered to the end-user from a cache on the GFI WebMonitor machine when possible, thus improving performance and reducing bandwidth consumption

New! Anonymization of personal data

In some countries, notably Italy and Germany, the law requires that any personally identifiable information is not easily available, and should be revealed only under certain circumstances (e.g., investigation by relevant authorities).

GFI WebMonitor helps comply with this law – there is an option to enable anonymization of personal data, which makes all personal data in reports visible only by using the four-eye principle (which requires at least two people to witness/approve a certain activity).

Support for virtual environments

Organizations that are currently using or plan to use virtualization on their network can still install and use a range of GFI products with confidence.

GFI WebMonitor supports and runs on the most common virtualization technologies in use, namely VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server and Microsoft Hyper-V.

Security Solutions & Services

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Enterprise Security for Endpoints

Provides immediate protection for file servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices with innovative technology that frees endpoint resources.

Safeguard your corporate and roaming employee endpoints with anti-malware, intrusion defense, and data loss prevention solutions coupled with Smart Protection Network real-time reputation services. Relieve your network of the burden of conventional pattern files or choose a highly scalable unified security and systems management platform.

Web and Messaging Security

Secure your vital web and messaging systems with immediate protection against new and evolving viruses, spam, phishing, spyware, bad links, compromised sites, and data loss. Layers of on-premise security give you privacy and control, while cloud-based services deliver proactive, real-time protection—for a stronger defense and lower IT costs.

Enterprise Security for Gateways

Integrates virtualized web and messaging gateway security to improve protection against web, email, and blended threats.

Data Protection

Secure sensitive data with endpoint data loss prevention, email encryption, and content filtering solutions that emphasize both security and ease-of-use. Identity-based, universal-reach encryption uses cloud-based keys to enable simple and effortless secure communication that ensures adoption of compliant data policies across your entire organization.

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Risk Management

Improve your defense against advanced persistent threats, zero-day malware, and targeted attacks, which can evade conventional perimeter and content security. Proactive real-time threat and vulnerability management puts you back in control with automated incident detection, analysis, and remediation—designed to minimize risk.