BitDefender Security
for Mail Servers
Comprehensive antimalware protection for Windows and UNIX based Mail Servers
Product Information
Designed for Windows or UNIX-based mail servers, BitDefender Security for Mail Servers brings together proactive antivirus, antispyware, antispam, antiphishing, content and attachment filtering technologies to secure the mail traffic of companies and Service Providers. Thanks to its compatibility with most major mail platforms, the solution offers your company reliable protection against newly emerging malware and attempts to steal confidential and valuable data.
Key features:
- Fast and easy deployment
- Easy integration with your current mail services
- Compatible with most major mail platforms
- Proactive heuristic protection against zero-day threats
- Antivirus, antispyware and antiphishing protection
- Multiple layers of antispam filtering
- Content and attachment filtering
- Intuitive program interface
Features and Benefits
- E-mail Protection against Malware
- Compatibility
- Increased Business Productivity
- Increased Usability
- Centralized Management Support
- BitDefender Technologies
- Services
E-mail Protection against Malware
- Fights e-mail-borne malware by filtering and blocking messages that carry a virus, spyware, trojan, backdoor or other potentially dangerous active codes
- Scans e-mail messages at the point they enter/leave the server sthat the messaging environment is free from malware at all times
- Extends the malware protection span by keeping the external recipients of the filtered e-mail (customers, partners, friends) safe as well
- Provides anti-phishing protection by proactively detecting forged messages intended ttrick their recipient intdisclosing confidential data
- Matches e-mails ta particular IP address sthat messages with spoofed headers cannot pass the White List filter anymore
Compatibility
- Comes with an SMTP proxy agent which:
- allows using the solution with generic e-mail platforms such as Windows SMTP Mail Servers, Exim**, Dmail**
- offers access to features such as connection count limiting, trusted networks and relay domain limitations
- Includes** dedicated agents for automatic integration with several of the most popular mail transfer agents such as Sendmail (milter), Postfix, Courier, qmail and CommuniGate Pro
- Fully complies** with FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard), operating in a completely non- intrusive manner
- Ensures compatibility with all major Unix-based platforms due to its rpm, deb and generic .tar.run packages
Increased Business Productivity
- Reduces mail traffic and saves network resources due tits extensive antimalware protection capabilities
- Through its optimized scanning process, increases mail delivery speed and reduces server workload
- Improves your company’s productivity and prevents the loss* of confidential information by filtering all mail passing through the Exchange server based on:
- content (subject line, sender, recipient, body) and attachment
- the criteria defined for the existing user groups
- Provides a highly efficient, multi-layered antispam protection system which:
- Reduces mail traffic by accurately classifying messages as spam, phishing or legitimate
- Blocks unsolicited mail based on several filters, among which:
- connection filters such as the Allow/Deny IP List and Sender Black List
- the Bayesian Filter, which you can train tlearn the specifics of the spam received by your server
- the Real-time Blackhole List (RBL) filter, which identifies spam based on mail servers’ reputation as spam senders
- Allows configuring antispam filter sensitivity by setting very demanding or relaxed thresholds for each user group
- Automatically redirects spam tyour Exchange Junk Folder**
- Provides WBL (White List/ Blacklist) support, allowing you tset a list of trusted and untrusted addresses based on which trespectively “always accept” or “always reject” mail
* Only applies to the Exchange 2007 environment
** Only applies to the Exchange 2003/2007 environments
Increased Usability
- Allows you to filter mail traffic more flexibly, leveraging antivirus, antispam, content and attachment filtering policies for different groups or users
- Generates detailed statistics and reports related to the solution’s activity
- Sends customizable mail notifications about its activity
- Allows you to remotely configure mail protection through its management tools
- A dedicated command line interface** allows performing post-install configuration and administration tasks
- Can isolate dangerous or restricted mail in a quarantine zone to be dealt with later
- The quarantine area is searchable** based upon regular expressions, sender, recipient, date and cause for quarantine
- Allows** performing management actions via SNMP by means of its SNMP Daemon Plug-in
- Can** send virus and administration alerts to three different hosts, through the SNMP Logger plug-in
Centralized Management Support
BitDefender Management Server allows centralized management for most BitDefender business solutions installed on network computers, including BitDefender Security for Mail Servers (only UNIX platforms are supported for centralized management). This type of integration allows you to use the Management Server console to get centralized access to:
- Configuration settings for BitDefender Security for Mail Servers
- Critical event information such as update-related events, configuration warnings, license expiration
- Easy-to-interpret statistics and reports based on the information received from BitDefender Security for Mail Servers
BitDefender Technologies
All BitDefender solutions include B-HAVE, a patent pending technology which analyzes the behavior of potentially malicious codes inside a virtual computer, eliminating false positives and significantly increasing detection rates for new and unknown malware.
To better deal with new spam, the BitDefender Lab has created NeuNet, a powerful antispam filter. Inside the Antispam Lab, NeuNet is pre-trained on a series of spam messages sthat it learns trecognize new spam by perceiving its similarities with the messages it has already examined.
Certified Antivirus Engines
BitDefender’s award-winning scan engines featuring the B-HAVE technology have been recognized by leading certification bodies, including ICSA Labs, Virus Bulletin, West Coast Labs, for their unmatched proactive antimalware protection.
Services
Advanced Update System
The BitDefender Corporate Security components receive the latest updates and patches based on three configurable technologies: on-demand, scheduled and automatic.
Upgrades
Registered users benefit from free upgrades to any new version of the solution during the license period. Special pricing is always provided to our customers when they renew their license, making BitDefender a long term cost effective solution.
Update Pushing
The latest virus signatures are “pushed” to your servers the second they become available instead of waiting for the next scheduled update, further reducing the threat posed by new viruses.
Free 24/7 Professional Technical Support
Certified representatives provide BitDefender business customers with free permanent support online, by telephone or e-mail. This is supplemented by an online database with answers to Frequently Asked Questions and fixes for common issues.
*Only for Windows-based platforms
**Only for UNIX-based platforms
System Requirements
UNIX-Based Platforms
System Requirements:
- Linux Kernel: 2.4.x or 2.6.x (recommended)
- FreeBSD: 5 (or newer with compat5x)
- glibc: version 2.3.1 or newer and libstdc++5 from gcc 3.2.2 or newer
- P 1.4Ghz, RAM256MB, HDD200MB.
Supported Linux Distributions:
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, Linux 9 or newer
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, Linux 8.2 or newer
- SNovell Linux
- Fedora Core 1 or newer
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 or newer
- Slackware 9.x or newer
- Mandrake/Mandriva 9.1 or newer
Windows-Based platforms
System Requirements
Software:
- Windows NT 4.0 SP6 + MMC v1.2 / Windows 2000 SP4 / Windows 2003 SP1 Server + Internet Explorer 6.
Hardware:
- PII 300MHz, RAM256MB, HDD200MB
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