The Symantec Brightmail Gateway delivers inbound and outbound messaging security for email and IM, with effective and accurate antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, and data loss prevention technology. Unlike complex products with difficult management and products that force a choice between effectively catching spam and letting legitimate messages through, Brightmail Gateway is simple to administer and catches more than 97% of spam with less than one in a million false positives. Continuous automatic antispam and antivirus updates leverage the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, with over 120 million antivirus sensors, 40,000 firewall and intrusion detection sensors, managed security deployments in 70 countries, and Symantec’s patented Probe Network of over 2.5 million decoy accounts.

On-box connection throttling uses both global and self-learning local IP reputation analysis to improve spam filtering by blocking malicious senders at the network level. Real-time scanning, using award-winning Symantec AntiVirus™ technologies, helps organizations protect against malware. Advanced content filtering and data loss prevention technologies help organizations control sensitive data, reduce the risks associated with data loss, and meet regulatory compliance and corporate governance demands. Powerful on-demand reporting, unified administrative controls, and flexible work flow simplify management and drive down administrative costs.

The Brightmail Gateway effectively and transparently responds to new spam threats to minimize network downtime, preserve employee productivity, and protect company reputation. It is available as both a traditional physical appliance and a VMware-certified virtual appliance, enabling organizations to easily add or remove antispam capacity to keep messages flowing in the face of growing, unpredictable spam volume.