Features
How it works
MGuard is a ‘Perimeter’ defence service. Explaining how it works is quite simple:
When someone external to your network sends you an email, this email is routed directly to your mail server via the internet. Mguard however sits in-between anyone sending you an email and your network. When an email is sent to you it is first routed through Mguard, it is then able to check all email for reputation, spam and viruses – stopping them dead!
Since such a high percentage of email is Spam, this is stopped before it even tries to be delivered to your system. This in turn protects your private network from the risk of infection & limits the amount of email traffic on your internet connection. This increases bandwidth and reduces the amount of server storage capacity for so many emails as well as allowing your hardware to perform business tasks rather using a significant amount of its processing power to sift legitimate email from Spam.
As Mguard is low cost and based on a per mailbox pricing scheme, ROI (Return On Investment) is also high compared to purchasing your own hardware.
Perimeter Led Security
The complexity and volume of email sent by spammers and hackers is continuously on the rise. This, together with the specific targeting of businesses through Mail Bombing, DoES, Backscatter and other exploitations, requires ever-increasing resources to counter these threats. Mguard’s perimeter led email security solution has the ability to block unwanted traffic including Viruses, Spam and Phishing, regardless of their content, at the IP level and email envelope level. This frees up bandwidth and resources for the content analysis of the remaining emails by the Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam filters.
Perimeter-level protection package
- DoES (Denial of Email Service) resilience
- Mail-bombing protection
- Syntax verifications
- Zombie detection & IP Reputation system
- Harvest prevention
- IP Rate limit
- Spoofing prevention for incoming mail
- (Anti-Zombie)
- Validation of sender’s domain
- SMTP Authentication
- Local/LDAP/Forward
- Brute-force prevention
Zombie Detection System
Over 90% of Spam and Viruses are sent through Zombie computers. Zombie computers are computers or servers that have been involuntarily compromised by a Virus or Trojan-horse and are used to send out Spam. Usually, the owners of these computers are unaware that their computers have been compromised. Mguard’s unique ZDS™ provides detection and prevention of such threats at the IP and envelope level.
ZDS™ also protects the organization’s reputation by blocking traffic emerging from internal zombie-converted computers.
Anti-Virus Engines
Mguard incorporates 5 Anti-Virus engines in order to provide full protection against known and emerging security threats. Our embedded Zero-Hour™ technology identifies and blocks new-age Virus outbreaks within minutes and is supported by four additional Anti-Virus engines; Mguard’s unique heuristic worm detection engine, coupled with F-Secure’s award-winning Anti-Virus scanning engines.
- Proprietary heuristic Worm detection engine
- F-Secure® Orion – heuristic-based
- F-Secure® Libra – signature-based
- Kaspersky® AVP – heuristic and signature based
- Zero-Hour™ outbreak detection
Anti-Spam Engines
Fighting spammers has become a challenge, as spammers are constantly improving their technologies in order to bypass Anti-Spam systems. The latest breeds are known as “Image-based Spam” and “PDF-basedSpam”. Our unique non-OCR technology has the ability to detect image-based Spam based on a single message (using no reference at all). In total, Mguard incorporates eleven-layers of Anti-Spam technologies (such as IP Reputation and Recurrent Pattern Detection™), in order to provide a high detection ratio of 98.0% with a false positive ratio close to zero.
- Perimeter Engines
- Zombie detection & IP Reputation system
- External and Internal RBL lookups
- NextGen Greylisting
- Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD™)
- Deep Inspection Engines
- Image Analysis engine
- Bayesian statistical engine
- Heuristic engine
- URL, Telephone & Email Database
- Domain to IP conversion (SURBL)
- Honey pots with real-time database update
- SPF and DomainKeys support
Email Policy Management & Enforcement
With ever-increasing legislation and regulations, the use of email needs to be managed in order to protect businesses and their employees from both civil and criminal prosecutions, both of which are on the rise, as email becomes the de-facto means of communication. Mguard’s three-tier policy manager enables the business to regulate the flow of outbound email, with a set of rules that can be defined for the entire organization, a specific department or group of users, or for the individual user.
Backscatter Prevention
Non-delivery mail notifications from an unknown source caused by a Virus, Phishing or Spam, known as “Backscatter”, may lead to flooding of the organization’s mail systems. Additionally, Backscatter causes IT overhead and misuse of employee time. Mguard is the only product that has a Backscatter detection mechanism, which prevents mail classified as Backscatter from entering the network.
Inappropriate Content Control
Inappropriate content such as pornography has become a major concern as it leads to exposure to improper content and to sexual harassment. Mguard incorporates a new-generation Inappropriate Content Control (ICC) package. The ICC package includes IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) database lookup and an Image-scanning engine.
Mail Server (optional)
Don’t have an email server? No problem! Mguard has an optional mail server module in which mailboxes can be created and managed. Connect to them using any pop3/imap client.
Mail Archiving (optional)
Organizations now face the need to comply with recent regulations (such as the Freedom of information act – FOIA), and to be able to safely store and retrieve old emails, stored in their servers.
Mguard’s Archive Module (A-Guard) offers a unique blend of features and
tools which allow organizations to store emails for long periods
of time without losing the ability to easily search and retrieve
messages. This allows a substantial reduction of storage burden
and of system resource consumption for mail servers.
A-Guard is a flexible solution which works with all
existing email server brands.
A-Guard is offered on a tier pricing scale dependent on your storage needs thus providing limitless solutions to nearly any business environment
while maintaining full Regulation compliance, durability and
scalability.
Extended Features
Compliance with Sarbanes Oxley act (SOX), Gramm-Leach
Bliley act (GLBA) and the Freedom of information act
(FOIA).
- File system architecture. No database hidden costs /
pitfalls. - Multiple retrieving technologies: POP3, IMAP, Exchange,
Domino, SENDmail, Qmail, Postfix, exigent mail server,
IpSwitch Imail and off-the-network (SMPT). - Indexing and searching within attachments: MS-Word,
MS-PowerPoint, RTF, PDF and ZIP. - Comprehensive audit trail and system logging.
- Intelligently stores emails on multiple hard disks/units and arrays (fully backed up).
