Spam Filtering Service and Email Encryption

Spam accounts for 70% of email messages. Over 3% of emails have malicious attachments. 91% of successful hacks begin with email attacks. It all adds up to the urgency of protecting your email.

Progent has partnered with leading IT security companies to offer small and mid-size businesses ProSight Email Guard, a hybrid security solution that uses cloud-based resources and on-premises security gateway hardware to provide multi-tiered defense against spam, email-borne viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and other email-based threats. In addition, ProSight Email Guard's security gateway hardware provides outbound email encryption, enforces your internal content policies to keep sensitive data from leaking outside of your organization, and helps keep your organization off spam block lists by filtering outbound spam and viruses.

Progent's email security consultants can assist you to design and implement your ProSight Email Guard deployment, help you determine which email security gateway appliances are the best fit for your needs, configure your gateway, integrate ProSight Email Guard with Microsoft Exchange Server or any other email platform, set up policies for filtering inbound and outbound email, configure outbound encryption, plan and deploy high-availability topology that can include clustered security gateways, set up a streamlined cloud-based management system that utilizes delegated administration, and provide training, ongoing consulting support and troubleshooting.

Key Features of ProSight Email Guard
ProSight Email Guard is a complete solution for protecting inbound and outbound email. ProSight Email Guard offers these key features:

• Spam Protection uses heuristic-rules that analyze IP addresses, message content, and even images/
• Zero-hour Virus Protection offers multi-tiered scanning and 24x7 real-time updates
• Cloud-based Pre-filtering prevents the vast majority of email threats from ever reaching your security perimeter
• On-premises Gateway Appliance is purpose-built for deep analysis of inbound and outbound traffic
• Cloud-based Management with delegated administration rights centralizes and simplifies policy and configuration control
• Outbound Filtering provides policy-based Content Filtering for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Data Leakage Protection and blocks outbound spam and viruses
• Encryption uses AES with 256-bit keys and automatically protects outbound email that meets your policy settings
• Rate Control blocks spambots and controls outbound email rate based on IP address or sender's email address
• Denial of Service (DoS) Attack Protection keeps your network from being disabled by an overload of malicious spam
• Directory Harvest Attack (DHA) protection keeps spammers from stealing and selling your users' email addresses
• Low False Positive Rate is an industry-leading 0.01% before you apply any of the available custom optimization options
• Internal Email Protection with Exchange protects email that stays within your security perimeter, never reaching your gateway

The reliability of your email system is also improved due to the hardened, geographically dispersed data centers behind Email Guard's cloud infrastructure. Data center uptime averages 99.999 percent, far higher than can be achieved by the email servers of most small or mid-size businesses. If your email server or internal network infrastructure fails, Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants and Cisco-certified network engineers can provide immediate online expertise to get you up and running quickly.

Inbound Email Protection
All inbound email secured by ProSight Email Guard passes through the Cloud Protection Layer, which uses advanced data centers and massive computing grids to block 95% of spam and most email carrying viruses and other malware. Email that clears this first level of filtering is subjected to deep analysis by purpose-built on-premises security gateway hardware that provides multi-level inspection including OCR technology to detect image spam. The Cloud Protection layer and the email security gateway are continually updated in real time by the cloud-based Update Center, a technology center staffed 24x7x365 by security experts to provide zero-hour protection against the latest threats without requiring the intervention of your management personnel. For disaster recovery, the Cloud Protection Layer offers email spooling, which can store all your inbound email for up to 96 hours or redirect it to an alternate destination in case your on-premises data center is disrupted.

Outbound Email Protection
The outbound filtering capability of ProSight Email Guard prevents costly data leaks and protects your reputation as a trusted source of email. ProSight Email Guard provides Data Loss Protection (DLP) through policy-based content filtering. This prevents users from inadvertently releasing valuable or private information through email messages. Leaked information can violate regulatory requirements and can result in loss of competitive advantage, identity theft, and even litigation. The ProSight Email Guard security gateway appliance comes with standard content filters that include HIPAA, Social Security Numbers, credit card numbers. In addition, you can define custom policies for filtering content based on keywords, categories, or other factors. ProSight Email Guard allows you to use content filtering policies for automatically blocking, quarantining or encrypting email messages.

Outbound filtering can also block spam and viruses sent by internal computers that have been compromised, which is a serious vulnerability in BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) environments. Organizations which allow spam and viruses to be sent out can be placed on block lists, or "blacklisted". This loss of reputation can hurt productivity and profits.

Outbound Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard uses a cloud-based Message Center to encrypt and deliver outbound email. You can configure multiple policies for deciding which emails should be encrypted, and the entire process is handled automatically. The on-premises security gateway sends email to be encrypted to the Message Center using a secure TLS connection. There the messages are encrypted using the advanced AES-256 standard and stored for retrieval. The Message Center sends a notice to the recipient and includes a web link that permits the recipient to retrieve the decrypted email. Any replies are also encrypted at the Message Center.

A plug-in for Microsoft Exchange allows users to encrypt emails on an individual basis. For additional details about ProSight Email Guard outbound email encryption, see Email Guard technology and architecture.

Technologies Behind ProSight Email Guard for Blocking Email Threats
ProSight Email Guard's cloud-based filtering resources, technology centers and gateway appliances combine open source mechanisms with proprietary techniques developed by Progent's partners to protect against spam and other email-based threats. Anti-spam/virus techniques include:

• IP Reputation Analysis
• Sender Authentication
• Recipient Verification
• Predictive Sender Profiling
• Virus Databases
• Pre-Defined And Custom Policies
• Rate Control
• Signature Analysis
• Intent Analysis
• Image Analysis
• Bayesian Analysis
• Spam Rules Scoring Thresholds

• Spam
• Viruses
• Trojans
• Worms
• Polymorphic Viruses
• Spoofing
• Phishing
• Denial Of Service (Dos) Attacks
• Directory Harvest Attacks (Dhas)
• Spyware

How Progent Can help You Deploy and Manage ProSight Email Guard
Progent's certified email security experts can work with you to develop a comprehensive email security strategy that protects you from email-borne threats and helps you stay in compliance with government regulations and industry standards. Progent can help you plan and implement a smooth rollout of ProSight Email Guard, tune your configuration to match your environment, develop auditing and reporting practices, train your management and end users on how to avoid spam and prevent virus propagation, and develop enforceable email policies. In addition, Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified consultants can help you plan, implement and troubleshoot a robust on-premises network infrastructure to support your email solution and efficiently integrate your local IT resources with ProSight Email Guard's cloud-based resources and services.

Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer world-class expertise providing remote and onsite IT consulting services for Microsoft Exchange including Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 consulting, Exchange Server 2013 support, plus support and migration services for legacy versions of Exchange Server. Progent also offers Windows Server consulting as well as support for the entire family of Microsoft Servers.

Download the ProSight Email Guard Datasheet
To see the ProSight Email Guard datasheet, click: ProSight Email Guard Spam and Email Content Filtering Datasheet (94 Kb PDF file).

Other Managed Services Available from Progent
In addition to ProSight Email Guard, Progent's ProSight suite of network monitoring and management services offers other affordably-priced managed service packages that address key components of your information system such as endpoint security, backup and disaster recovery, network infrastructure management, virtual machine hosting, and IT documentation management. By partnering with leading technology innovators, Progent can offer small and mid-size businesses the benefits of the same advanced technology used by global enterprises. Managed services available from Progent include:

• ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
  ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard physical and virtual endpoints against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

• ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Email Filtering
  Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

• ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery
  ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

• ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
  Progent’s ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it easy and affordable for small and mid-sized organizations to diagram, monitor, enhance and debug their connectivity hardware like routers, firewalls, and access points plus servers, printers, client computers and other networked devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art Remote Monitoring and Management technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that network diagrams are kept current, captures and displays the configuration information of virtually all devices on your network, monitors performance, and generates alerts when issues are detected. By automating tedious network management processes, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off ordinary chores such as network mapping, reconfiguring your network, finding appliances that need important updates, or identifying the cause of performance bottlenecks. Learn more about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure monitoring and management services.

• ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring and Management
  ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop monitoring service that incorporates state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management (RMM) technology to help keep your network running at peak levels by tracking the health of vital assets that drive your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers an issue, an alarm is sent immediately to your designated IT management personnel and your Progent consultant so any looming problems can be addressed before they can impact productivity. Learn more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop remote monitoring consulting.

• ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
  With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

• ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation Management
  ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require when you need it. Read more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a fast and low-cost alternative for small and mid-size organizations to obtain an objective assessment of the health of their IT system. Powered by a selection of the leading remote monitoring and management tools in the industry, and overseen by Progent's certified team of IT experts, ProSight Network Audits help you see how closely the configuration of your essential network assets adhere to industry best practices. The Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and provide immediate ROI such as a cleaner Active Directory (AD) environment. Both versions also include one year of advanced remote network monitoring and management. Advantages can include simpler network management, improved compliance with data security requirements, higher utilization of IT resources, quicker troubleshooting, more dependable backup and recovery, and less downtime. Read more information about ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure assessment.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is an affordable service built around a phone interview with a Progent information assurance expert. The interview is designed to assess your company's preparedness either to defend against ransomware or recover rapidly following an assault by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch or Egregor. Progent will consult with you personally to gather information about your current security profile and backup procedures, and Progent will then deliver a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report describing how you can follow industry best practices to build a cost-effective security and backup environment that reduces your vulnerability to a ransomware attack and meets your business needs. For additional information, see The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.

Contact Progent for Email Solutions
If you want to find out more about using Progent's ProSight Email Guard managed services or if you need Progent's help to troubleshoot or enhance your email system, call 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.