What does MIMEsweeper™ for SMTP do?

Spam detection averaging well over 99.5% with minimal false positives

Exceptional Gateway Protection

MIMEsweeper for SMTP provides large organizations with state of the art gateway protection. It features the Edge Server, a fully integrated gateway security component that sits in the DMZ to stop spam before it enters your network and offers the option of deploying the Kaspersky anti-virus engine here to scan for e-mail viruses, malware and phishing attacks. Alternatively, you may use your own in-house anti-virus. Direct support exists for specific versions of Authentium, Avira, Command, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Norman, Sophos and Symantec, while other anti-virus vendors may be accommodated via command line integration.

The Edge Server provides:

Deploying the Edge Server at your e-mail gateway allows only clean e-mail to enter your network, freeing it from spam traffic, lessening the load and increasing the efficiency of your e-mail servers and removing the need to archive spam.

By providing the option of anti-virus on the Edge Server or on the 5.3 Policy Server allows an organization to provide exception anti-virus protection using a two tier approach to malware filtering.

Gold Standard E-mail Data Loss Prevention

The depth of document payload control within MIMEsweeper for SMTP is second to none with its document and file recognition, by byte signature (not extension) and disassembly code generally considered to be the very best in the e-mail content filtering field.

The MIMEsweeper engine is able to disassemble and inspect the entire contents of hundreds of different file types as well as recognize PCI, PII and hundreds of other protected document tags. The lexical analysis engine may use custom and predefined HIPAA, SEC, and SOX lists to identify isolate key words in messages and attachments.  The depth of scanning even allows you to differentiate text in document headers and footers,body text and properties.

The MIMEsweeper solution provides dual level protection controls over protected documents, stopping them as they move about inside your company and at the gateway, and every single message is tracked, monitored, filtered and audited.

Management & Consolidation of Complex E-mail Environments

MIMEsweeper for SMTP is specifically developed for complex e-mail infrastructures and enterprises who need to operate regionalized enforcement of e-mail policies, prevent inter and intra company e-mail abuse and stop e-mail data loss and leakage. The underlying design of the solution offers e-mail gateway consolidation yet the flexibility and scalability (through its service orientated architecture and multi-language support) to manage different locations centrally or regionally and allow for local sensitivities, laws and customs. 

Policy is easily set for individuals, teams, business units, divisions and regions while all being subject to central policy goals.  Policy definition is made easier by working with Active Directory and other LDAP servers to understand the physical structure of an organization.

Straightforward centralized management of localized multi-location security policies

Policy Enforcement to Suit the Most Demanding Organization

The roles based management within MIMEsweeper for SMTP understands that the control of valuable or sensitive information is often not an IT issue but needs to be delegated into the hands of the information policy specialists in your organization.  With directory server integration for policy it’s simple to delegate decision making according to any policy violation to HR, Compliance, Legal, Security etc., along with access to the relevant tools to take the appropriate action.  This unique hierarchical, roles-based, policy-driven content filtering approach to e-mail security ensures policy is always enforced, acted upon, and that every message is fully tracked and audited, no matter how large an organization you have.

IT administration time and resources are also taken up with releasing suspected spam or other user-requested categories of e-mail from quarantine.  So the option exists through the built-in Personal Message Manager (PMM) to let users manage their own quarantine area reducing operational costs and speeding up e-mail delivery.