MailMarshal SMTP
Email Gateway Security
Spam, malware, complex compliance policies, and confidential data leakage are just some of the concerns that keep today's messaging administrators up at night. MailMarshal SMTP takes care of all these issues — and more — providing a single solution for organizations large and small.
MailMarshal SMTP is a versatile, powerful and scalable email security system, compatible with any network environment. It integrates email threat protection, anti-spam, inbound/outbound content analysis, policy/compliance enforcement, data leakage prevention and reporting into a single, flexible and easy-to-manage solution. Armed with the latest technologies, including behavioral analysis, IP reputation service and SpamBotCensor, MailMarshal SMTP helps messaging administrators more effectively manage security, bandwidth, TCO, email efficiency and, of course, their precious time
MailMarshal SMTP acts as a gateway, filtering all email sent and received at the network/Internet perimeter. It blocks incoming threats such as spam, phishing, viruses, malware, malicious links and Denial of Service attacks, while also monitoring outbound messaging — enforcing Acceptable Use Policies and compliance with data leakage prevention policies. MailMarshal SMTP can be deployed as a standalone solution, or as a distributed array designed to support the largest networks, including centralized administration.
What's New?
Enhanced Anti-Spam Protection
Spam is an evolving threat that requires anti-spam solutions to adapt through innovation. MailMarshal SMTP provides advanced, new layers in its Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine.
MailMarshal IP Reputation Service - A real-time IP look-up service that enables MailMarshal SMTP to deny connections from known spam sources. This occurs before messages are transmitted, resulting in substantial bandwidth savings and more efficient spam protection.
SpamBotCensor - The majority of the world's spam comes from Botnets. SpamBotCensor is a unique innovation that enables MailMarshal to quickly and accurately identify and block messages generated by known SpamBots.
Blended Threats Module
Blended Threat Protection
Blended threats — emails containing malicious URL links — are arguably the most dangerous email threat facing organizations. Traditional, signature-based anti-virus measures often leave organizations vulnerable to these threats. The new Blended Threats Module for MailMarshal SMTP is an optional security service that detects known malicious URLs in email messages. It leverages M86 Security's patented behavioral analysis technology that identifies malicious links. Those are then added to a dynamically updated database, greatly improving zero-day threat prevention.
Automated User Group Maintenance
MailMarshal now provides automated pruning of unused email addresses from automatically generated user groups, maintaining efficiency and server performance.
New Outbound SMTP Authentication
MailMarshal now enables configuration of outbound SMTP authentication for each route within MailMarshal — useful when ISPs require SMTP credentials to combat spammers.
Improved Inbound SMTP Authentication
Inbound SMTP authentication now supports CRAM-MD5 for more secure authentication between servers.
And More
- A new Upgrade Tasks feature advises MailMarshal administrators on recommended actions and newly available features following a new release upgrade.
- A new report spam/not spam feature facilitates streamlined notifications to M86 Security Labs of missed spam or false positives.
- All user groups MailMarshal associates with a specific email address can be identified by specialized search tool.
Key Features
- Best-of-breed anti-spam (99.5% spam blocking with near-zero false positives).
- Protection against phishing, viruses, malware and blended threats (malicious links).
- Inbound/outbound content security (deep content inspection of messages and attachments).
- Extensive lexical (language) analysis and recursive file unpacking.
- Controls attachments by size and MIME type.
- Acceptable use and compliance policy enforcement.
- Enforceable by individual, groups or all users.
- Data leakage Prevention (DLP) technology.
- Secure, automatic email encryption.
- Message archiving.
- Pornographic image detection (optional).
- Denial of Service (DoS) and directory harvesting attack prevention.
- Extensive reporting and message classification.
- Comprehensive enterprise management.
- Supports native Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Key Benefits
- Secures your email gateway against all threats and restores the true business value of email, making it safe and efficient to use.
- Provides rapid Return on Investment, measureable through management reports, improved security, bandwidth savings and performance gains.
- Delivers low cost of ownership with easy, flexible deployment and administration, consolidated and centralized security functions and extensive automatic updates.
- Consistently enforces Acceptable Use Policies, protecting employees and providing a safer working environment.
- Provides comprehensive legal liability protection by removing inappropriate content, offensive language and demonstrating that all reasonable measures to protect employees and fairly enforce policies are in place.
- Ensures industry or government regulatory compliance though automated policy enforcement and thorough inspection of email content.
- Protects employee productivity by virtually eliminating spam and other email distractions.
- Improves network efficiency and saves costs by managing bandwidth utilization, rejecting spam from known sources and reducing excessive non-business email.
- Safeguards your organization's reputation by preventing confidential data loss and embarrassment via inappropriate or offensive email conduct.
Requirements
Hardware
| Minimum Suggested | Recommended* | |
| Processor | Pentium 4 or equivalent | Pentium Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz or higher |
| Disk Space | 20GB (NTFS) or higher | 160GB (NTFS) or higher |
| Memory | 1GB RAM or higher | 2GB RAM or higher |
Software
| Operating System | Windows Server 2008 / Windows Vista / Windows Server Standard or Enterprise 2003 SP2 or later / Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 & 2008 / Windows XP Professional SP3 or later (MailMarshal SMTP supports 32-bit mode running on 64-bit operating systems) |
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| Database | SQL Server 2008 / SQL Server 2008 Express / SQL Server 2005 / SQL Server 2005 Express | |
*These requirements are recommended for a 100 user organization desiring high performance and sufficient resources for 12 months of report logging and email archiving.
Deployment
MailMarshal SMTP is designed to be deployed as the first receiving email gateway in your organization. It is typically deployed in the DMZ between your network firewall and the trusted internal network.
A typical MailMarshal deployment with MailMarshal acting as the email gateway.
MailMarshal can be deployed in a standalone configuration with database logging and the administration console located within your trusted environment. MailMarshal is also specifically designed to support multiple distributed mail processing servers configured in an array. The array is managed centrally by the MailMarshal Array Manager which can control and manage multiple nodes. Administration can be performed locally or remotely via the MailMarshal Web Console. Reporting is provided via the Marshal Reporting Console included with MailMarshal SMTP.
These resources provide the detailed information you need to fully understand the strengths of MailMarshal SMTP.
Try Before You Buy
M86 Security offers a free "try before you buy" program for MailMarshal SMTP.
Download a complimentary trial.
The Marshal Reporting Console is available on the MailMarshal SMTP trial download page.
MailMarshal SMTP customers with current maintenance can upgrade to MailMarshal SMTP 6.7 for free.
Product Information
Please Note: Datasheets for virus/malware scanners, the Blended Threats Module and other optional modules are available on the Options tab.
Datasheet - MailMarshal SMTP 6.7
An overview of MailMarshal SMTP including detailed information on features and benefits.
Datasheet - Blended Threats Module
An overview of the Blended Threats Module and how it addresses blended threats.
Datasheet - Marshal Reporting Console
An overview of the MailMarshal SMTP reporting suite.
Datasheet - Marshal IP Reputation Service
An overview of the anti-spam IP Reputation Service available in MailMarshal SMTP including how it works and key benefits.
What's New in MailMarshal SMTP 6.7
Highlighting new features in the latest release of MailMarshal SMTP.
Product Case Studies
Explore Case Studies from customers who have selected MailMarshal SMTP.
White Papers
M86 Security Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine
This white paper gives an overview of the techniques and technologies that MailMarshal uses to identify and block Spam.
Email Content Security - Small Business Solutions Guide
This white paper reviews Email Content Security needs of small and medium businesses, and discusses the M86 Security solution.
MailMarshal SMTP 6.0 Sizing Guide
The purpose of this white paper is to present some detail that can be used when planning the hardware specifications of a MailMarshal 6.x SMTP Server.
MailMarshal SMTP Policy Implementation Sizing Guide
This paper provides an insight into the impact that different policy configuration and third party scanners have on mail flow in MailMarshal SMTP.
MailMarshal SMTP 6.x Performance Benchmarking
The purpose of this white paper is to present an overview of the performance benchmark testing performed as part of the overall "Quality Assurance" testing program for the MailMarshal SMTP 6.0 development program.
MailMarshal SMTP 6.x Architecture Guide
This white paper introduces the concepts behind the architecture model for MailMarshal SMTP 6.0 and above.
MailMarshal SMTP supports a range of optional add-on modules for malware protection, image analysis and system operations management. All of these options are available for a free 30-day trial with MailMarshal SMTP.
Malware Scanners
Protect your network against malicious software. Block threats at the gateway.
Blended Email Threats
Blended threats are emails containing URL links to malicious websites. They are a serious security risk and a key vehicle for the growth of Botnets. These emails often appear harmless, even professional looking, but are in fact social engineering traps designed to lure email recipients into infecting themselves.
Blended Threats Module for MailMarshal SMTP
An overview of the Blended Threats Module for MailMarshal SMTP - a constantly updated resource of known malicious URLs maintained via a cloud-based malware behaviour analysis data center to proactively identify new blended threats.
Anti-Virus
MailMarshal SMTP supports a range of reputable anti-virus scanners to identify and quarantine malicious code at your email gateway. These scanners are supported via DLL integration; providing high performance scanning and email throughput.
Sophos for Marshal
Anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-adware and Behavioral Genotype® Protection technologies integrated with MailMarshal SMTP
A summary of Sophos for Marshal features and benefits.McAfee for Marshal
The McAfee Anti-Virus engine in a special package optimized for integration with MailMarshal SMTP. Includes high-throughput DLL integration and an automated updater service.
A summary of McAfee for Marshal features and benefits.Norman Virus Control
Integrated package from a leading Anti-Virus provider. Includes DLL integration. Trial license available through Norman; purchase from M86 Security.
A summary of Norman Virus Control features and benefits.Other Virus Scanners
The Symantec Anti-Virus Scan Engine is also supported by MailMarshal SMTP with DLL integration. Most other anti-virus scanning solutions can be used through a command line interface, suitable for sites with limited email traffic. These solutions are licensed through their respective vendors.
Anti-Spyware
Add a gateway layer of protection against key loggers and adware. Anti-Spyware solutions include automatic updating and high-throughput DLL integration. For more details, see Anti-Spyware Benefits.
CounterSpy
Anti-spyware solution from Sunbelt Software.
A summary of CounterSpy features and benefits.CA Anti-Spyware for Enterprise
Anti-spyware solution from Computer Associates.
A summary of CA Anti-Spyware for the Enterprise features and benefits.
Deep Image Analysis
Specialist software that scans images for pornographic content.
Detailed information about MailMarshal Image Analyzer integration.
Operations Management
SCOM Management Pack
Integrate monitoring of MailMarshal SMTP and your other servers and applications, using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.
Detailed information abound the SCOM Management Pack for MailMarshal SMTP.MOM Management Pack
Integrate monitoring of MailMarshal SMTP and your other servers and applications, using Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.
Detailed information about the MOM Management Pack for MailMarshal SMTP.
