Progent has partnered with Postini to offer an affordable, comprehensive solution to keep your corporate email free of spam and viruses

Spam now accounts for two out of three email messages. The spam epidemic seriously degrades the business value of your IT network by lowering productivity, slowing system performance, distracting IT management, and adding stress to the work environment. To solve this problem, Progent has partnered with Postini to offer small businesses E-Mail Guard, a managed service that stops spam and email-borne viruses before they can penetrate your corporate firewall.

E-Mail Guard handles the security and management of corporate email by providing continually updated spam and virus filtering, content filtering, and protection from email-based directory harvesting and denial of service attacks. E-Mail Guard also includes monitoring, reporting and content management tools plus outbound filtering to help you troubleshoot your email system and define and enforce corporate email policy.

E-Mail Guard is based on Postini’s Perimeter Manager, a pass-through service which routes all your email to secure, fault-tolerant data centers — the same ones used by Google, eBay and Yahoo — where messages and attachments are screened using state-of-the-art heuristic rules analysis. Clean email is forwarded instantly to your email server, and suspicious email is either tagged and delivered or quarantined to a web-accessible storage area for you to review. E-Mail Guard is fast and easy to set up and works with any email system. All you have to do is redirect your mail exchange (MX) record.

E-Mail Guard is a complete solution for blocking spam and viruses. Services include:

  • Spam Filtering using heuristic-rules that analyze sender’s IP address and message content
  • Real-Time Virus Protection with customizable filters and quarantine areas for safe review
  • Attachment Filtering for policy-based blocking, re-routing or trusted partner pass-through
  • Connection Manager to block invalid SMTP connection attempts and Directory Harvest Attacks
  • Delivery Manager for load balancing and for storing messages in case your email server fails
  • Event-Based Alerts to notify your administrator instantly during attacks and system outages
  • Real-Time Monitoring and Graphic Reports for web-based views of system status and usage
Advantages of E-Mail Guard
Filtering email at the desktop, server or gateway uses up network bandwidth, disk storage and IT management time. E-Mail Guard uses Postini's Perimeter Manager to stand between the Internet and your corporate network, preserving your system resources. Because Postini’s full-time security experts continually update filtering policies and virus databases, your email system always has the most current security technology without the intervention of your IT staff.

Perimeter Manager can also improve your email reliability. Postini's data center uptime averages 99.999 percent, far higher than small business email servers can expect to achieve. If your email server fails, messages are temporarily stored in a secure database at a Postini data center for delivery once you’re back on line.

Perimeter Manager is also a powerful defense against Directory Harvest Attacks — an aggressive technique used by spammers to gather employee email addresses by running scripts against email servers. DHA propagation is the primary driver for the significant growth in spam targeted to corporate email users.

Benefits of E-Mail Guard

  • Accurately filters email to eliminate spam and viruses
  • Secures your email system from Directory Harvesting and Denial of Service attacks
  • The Managed Service strategy keeps spam and viruses outside your firewall, increasing network performance and reducing stress in the work environment
  • Compatible with any email system — no hardware or software to purchase, install, manage or upgrade
  • Automatic updating frees up your IT management staff

Key Features of E-Mail Guard

  • Secure external buffer stops unwanted or malicious email before it reaches your corporate firewall
  • Monitoring, management tools and graphic reports give you detailed visibility of your corporate email traffic
  • Email policy, content and attachment management, plus outbound email filtering help you define and enforce your company’s email policies
  • Easily customizable by end users
  • Fail-safe architecture ensures no message is lost if your email server fails
  • Continual development, implementation and review of security policies and standards by Postini’s full-time staff of information security experts
  • Information security policies and programs are built around the ISO 17799 specification, the standard for enterprise computing
  • Good email is delivered instantly because filtering is done in memory, not on disk

How E-Mail Guard Adds Value to Postini's Managed Services
Progent is a Postini aggregator and support specialist. If your business is too small to qualify for a standard Postini license, you can still have access to Postini’s Perimeter Manager services through Progent’s E-Mail Guard service program.

Progent’s certified email security experts can work with you to develop a comprehensive email security strategy that addresses spam and viruses. Progent can help you plan and implement a phased rollout of Postini’s services, select spam filters specific to department needs to reduce the risk of false positives, develop auditing and reporting practices, train your management, educate your end users on how to avoid spam and prevent virus propagation, and define an enforceable corporate email policy appropriate for your business goals.

In addition, Progent can upgrade, troubleshoot, and monitor your entire email and network infrastructure based on industry best practices and Progent’s extensive experience as certified Microsoft and Cisco experts.

For small businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California, and in major cities throughout the United States, Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer on-site computer help and IT consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2003, Windows Server 2003, and for the entire family of Microsoft Servers. Progent's migration, integration, update, and support services include planning and system design, installation and deployment, project management and documentation, onsite and remote technical support and troubleshooting, Help Desk Call Center, expert security consulting, and turn-key outsourcing and co-sourcing.

Contact Progent for Email Solutions
If you are interested in using Progent's E-Mail Guard Managed Services or if you need Progent's consulting services to fix or enhance your email system, call 800-993-9400 or contact exchange-help@progent.com




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