ProSight Email Guard Spam and Content Filtering ConsultantsThe vast majority of email is spam, and the vast majority of successful cyber attacks begin with malicious email. Protecting your email, both incoming and outgoing, should be a top priority for any business. Progent has developed partnerships with developers of the industry's most advanced email security technology in order to provide small and mid-size organizations ProSight Email Guard, an affordable multi-tiered email security solution that incorporates cloud resources and local gateway hardware to deliver comprehensive protection against spam, viruses, DoS attacks, and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard’s on-premises security gateway enables advanced features such as email encryption, outbound content policy enforcement, and data leakage protection to keep sensitive and private information going beyond your firewall. ProSight Email Guard's content filtering also helps keep your business off block lists by intercepting outbound spam and viruses.

Progent's email security experts can assist you to plan and implement your ProSight Email Guard solution, help you decide which email security gateway device or devices are right for your situation, configure your email gateway, set up ProSight Email Guard to work with Microsoft Exchange or any other email system, define policies for bi-directional email filtering, install outbound email encryption, design a robust network architecture that can feature clustered email security gateways, set up cloud-based management with delegated administration, and provide training, continuing consulting expertise, and as-needed technical support.

Major Features of ProSight Email Guard
ProSight Email Guard is an end-to-end solution for protecting inbound and outbound email. ProSight Email Guard includes these major features:

  • Spam Filtering uses heuristic-intelligence to analyze IP addresses and message content
  • Zero-hour Virus Defense provides multi-level scanning and real-time updates
  • Pre-filtering in the Cloud blocks most email-borne threats before they reach your security perimeter
  • Local Email Gateway Appliance is purpose-built for in-depth bi-directional filtering
  • Cloud-based Management supports delegated administration rights to spread responsibility for policy and configuration control
  • Outbound Email Filtering offers policy-based Content Filtering for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Data Leakage Protection and stops outbound spam and malware
  • Email Encryption utilizes 256-bit key Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and automatically protects policy-compliant outbound email
  • Rate Monitoring and Control blocks spambots and throttles outbound email rate based on IP address/destination address
  • DoS Attack Defense prevents your network from being overwhelmed by malicious spam
  • DHA protection protects email addresses from being stolen and sold by spammers
  • Low Rate of False Positives scores an industry-low of 0.01% before optimization
  • Inside-the-Perimeter Email Protection with Microsoft Exchange protects the email that remains inside your security perimeter and never reaches your gateway
ProSight Email Guard uses an efficient and effective hybrid design model that deploys both cloud and on-premises resources to deliver leading-edge security, throughput, and ease of management in a solution that fits the budgets of small and mid-sized organizations.

ProSight Email Guard enhances the availability of your email environment thanks to the hardened, geo-dispersed datacenters that support the platform's cloud infrastructure. With 99.999 percent uptime, this cloud-based ecosystem can deliver far higher availability than the email infrastructure that small or mid-size businesses can afford to build or maintain. If your on-premises email server or in-house network stops working, Progent’s Microsoft-certified consultants and Cisco-certified network experts can provide immediate online assistance to get back on line fast.

Inbound Email Security
Inbound email protected by ProSight Email Guard arrives via the Cloud Protection Layer, which utilizes world-class datacenters and advanced computing grids to filter out 95% of spam and the majority of email that carries malware. The email that passes through this initial line of defense then undergoes in-depth inspection by a local security gateway appliance that performs multi-tier inspection including optical character recognition (OCR) analysis to detect image-based spam. Both the Cloud Protection layer and the email security gateway are kept up to date continuously by the Update Center, a cloud-based technology center staffed round the clock by security professionals to provide zero-hour defense against new threats. For disaster recovery scenarios, the Cloud Protection Layer can provide email spooling, which can cache your inbound email for as long as 96 hours or re-route it to a temporary destination while you repair local datacenter.

ProSight Email Guard's Inbound Email Protection

ProSight Email Guard offers in-depth zero-hour protection for inbound email

Outbound Email Security
ProSight Email Guard's outbound filtering offers data leakage protection and clocks outgoing spam and malware, which helps keep your company off email black lists. Policy-based content filtering keeps users from unknowingly or intentionally divulging sensitive or private information contained in email messages. Leaked information can violate regulatory mandates and result in identity theft, litigation, or loss of intellectual property. The ProSight Email Guard security gateway comes with a set of pre-configured content filters such as HIPAA compliance and Social Security and credit card numbers. You can also create custom filtering policies based on specified keywords, categories, or other factors. Filtering policies can cause affected emails to be automatically blocked, quarantined or encrypted.

ProSight Email Guard's Outound Email Protection

ProSight Email Guard's outbound protection stops data leakage and blocks outbound spam and malware

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.

Email Guard's Outound Encryption

ProSight Email Guard offers policy-based encryption for outbound email

A plug-in available for Microsoft Exchange makes it possible to encrypt emails individually. For details about ProSight Email Guard outbound email encryption, refer to ProSight Email Guard technology and architecture.

What Threats Can ProSight Email Guard Defend Against?
ProSight Email Guard's cloud-based filtering resources, technology centers, and email security gateway appliances use a variety of open source tools and proprietary techniques developed by Progent's partners to protect against spam and other email-based threats. Anti-spam/virus techniques and the threats that can be blocked include:

Techniques Used Threats Blocked
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

For a glossary of email security terms, visit Glossary of Terms Related to Spam Filtering Technology.

How Progent Can help You with ProSight Email Guard
Progent’s certified email integration and security consultants can help you design a complete email security solution that defends against email-based attacks and helps you comply with government and industry security requirements. Progent can assist you to implement an efficient deployment of ProSight Email Guard, optimize your system according to your business needs, institute auditing and reporting processes based on best practices, educate your end users on how to avoid malware propagation, and develop sound policies for email security and content. 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.

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

Other Managed Services and Network Auditing Packages Available from Progent
In addition to ProSight Email Guard, Progent's ProSight suite of network monitoring and management services includes other value-priced services that cover major facets of network management including endpoint security, cloud-based backup/restore, network infrastructure management, virtual server hosting, and IT asset documentation management. By partnering with leading technology innovators, Progent can offer small and mid-size organizations the advantages of the same world-class remote monitoring technology used by global enterprises. Managed services available from Progent include:

  • ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
    ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior analysis tools to guard physical and virtual endpoints against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including protection, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

  • ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Filtering
    Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

  • ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
    ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

  • ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Management
    ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it simple and inexpensive for smaller businesses to map out, monitor, optimize and troubleshoot their networking hardware like routers, firewalls, and wireless controllers plus servers, printers, client computers and other devices. Using cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology, WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology diagrams are kept updated, copies and manages the configuration of almost all devices on your network, tracks performance, and sends notices when problems are detected. By automating complex management processes, ProSight WAN Watch can knock hours off ordinary chores such as making network diagrams, expanding your network, finding appliances that need important software patches, or isolating performance bottlenecks. Find out more details about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure management services.

  • ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Monitoring
    ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop monitoring managed service that incorporates advanced remote monitoring and management techniques to help keep your network running at peak levels by checking the health of vital assets that power your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch detects a problem, an alarm is sent immediately to your designated IT staff and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so all looming problems can be addressed before they can impact productivity. Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring consulting.

  • ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
    With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more details 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 capture, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Read more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
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ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and low-cost alternative for small and medium-size organizations to get an unbiased assessment of the overall health of their IT system. Powered by some of the leading remote monitoring and management platforms available, and supervised by Progent's certified group of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the configuration of your essential infrastructure assets conform to industry best practices. The Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and provide immediate benefits such as a more manageable Active Directory (AD) environment. Both also come with a year of advanced remote network monitoring and management. Advantages can include easier management, better compliance with data security requirements, more efficient utilization of network assets, quicker problem resolution, more reliable backup and restore, and higher availability. See more about ProSight Network Audits network infrastructure review.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is a low-cost service based on a brief phone discussion with a Progent information assurance consultant. The interview is intended to assess your organization's preparedness either to defend against ransomware or recover quickly after an assault by a ransomware strain like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. Progent will work with you directly to gather information concerning your current AV defense and backup system, and Progent will then produce a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report document describing how you can apply industry best practices to create an efficient AV and backup/recovery environment that reduces your vulnerability to a ransomware attack and meets your business requirements. For additional information, see Progent's 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.

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