Enterprise Solutions – Security

Spam and Viruses

Email has become a vital enterprise communication tool to conduct daily business transactions. Initially, enterprise IT departments and management considered spam a “nuisance” that consumed employee productivity and system resources. However, as the quantity of spam has grown over the past few years, so also has the severity of the threat it poses on enterprises and email users. Spam has morphed into a much more serious threat that can potential take down an enterprise network email infrastructure, damage a corporate image, and scam employees. The FTC reports that in trends indicate hackers are using spam as a vehicle to propagate malicious code (including viruses). "Rather than merely advertising products and services, spam messages now sometimes include 'malware' designed to harm the recipient," the FTC writes.

The FTC also reports that there is a significant rise in "phishing," in which e-mail messages try to induce people to click on links to phony versions of web sites, such as financial sites, where they are then duped into handing over personal financial information.

Spyware

Spyware has become ubiquitous. Nearly 85% of all computers have been infected at some point, according to a survey by the Poneman Institute. Unlike virus developers who are motivated by mischief and ego, spyware developers are motivated by financial gain through theft and fraud. Spyware is a profitable business for criminals, so they will not easily be deterred. The FBI estimates that spyware and other computer-related crimes cost US businesses $67 billion per year.

Since it can be invisible to users, the longer the spyware is running undetected on a system the greater chance data theft may occur. Usually there is only a hint that spyware is present when computer or network performance degrades, users report more display ads, and/or users report their browser home page has been redirected.

Process Software Security Solutions

Process Software’s enterprise Internet security solutions protect your email infrastructure and desktops from threats that can lead to downtime, resource consumption, lost productivity, or data theft. Our enterprise email gateway and server solutions offer integrated spam and virus protection, relay blocking, robust authentication and encryption options, and more. Process Software’s enterprise antispyware solution provides proactive protection from the most evasive malware threats. The web-based management console makes it easy to deploy to thousands of systems. Process Software enterprise security solutions incorporate leading edge technologies and are backed by a dedicated customer support organization.

PreciseMail Anti-Spam Gateway

• Eliminates spam, phishing and virus threats at the Internet gateway or mail server.
• High performance filtering engine which processes millions of messages per day
• Scales to large organizations using multiple message servers where synchronization of data between them is a requirement.
• Supports many different end-user web access authentication methods and encryption
• Works with any mail server or it can be integrated into PMDF, Sendmail, or Sun Messaging Server
• Easy web administrator interface centralizes all configuration, management, and reporting tasks
• User spam management option

SpyCatcher Enterprise

• Multiple layers of technology are used in the Profiling Engine that provide proactive protection from evasive spyware threats
• Advanced remediation and fortification offers protection even from the most hostile attacks
• Safe spyware removal automatically eradicates even the most persistent spyware without harming enterprise computers
• Easy deployment allows administrators a pull or push installation option, or use of MSI compliant third-party deployment tools
• Small memory footprint gives administrators the flexibility to deploy SpyCatcher on various types of systems without impacting their performance
• Robust Active Directory integration

PMDF Internet Messaging

• High performance, proven multi-threaded architecture
• Complete support for IETF standards such as SMTP (SMTP extensions), POP and MIME
• TLS and SSL support for data encryption
• Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) support
• Support for SIEVE, a standards-based filtering language (RFC 3028 and extensions)
• SMTP server relay blocking
• Granular access controls to subvert denial of service attacks
• Server implementation of POP3 and IMAP4 server protocols