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. PineApp'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

Inappropriate content such as pornography has become a major concern as it leads to exposure to improper content and to sexual harassment. M-Gu4rd incorporates a new-generation Inappropriate Content Control (ICC) package. The ICC package includes IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) database lookup and an Image-scanning engine.

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. PineApp'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.

M-Gu4rd incorporates 5 Anti-Virus engines in order to provide full protection against known and unknown 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; M-Gu4rd’s unique heuristic worm detection engine, coupled with F-Secure™'s award-winning Anti-Virus scanning 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, M-Gu4rd 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.

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 rise, as email becomes the de-facto means of communication. M-Gu4rds 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.

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. M-Gu4rd is the only product that has a Backscatter detection mechanism, which prevents mail classified as Backscatter from entering the network.