Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C380 User Guide
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Cisco AsyncOS 8.0.2 for Email User Guide
Chapter 1 Getting Started with the Cisco Email Security Appliance
Cisco Email Security Appliance Overview
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Extensive message filtering technology allows you to enforce corporate policy and act on specific
messages as they enter or leave your corporate infrastructure. Filter rules identify messages based
on message or attachment content, information about the network, message envelope, message
headers, or message body. Filter actions allow messages to be dropped, bounced, archived, blind
carbon copied, or altered, or to generate notifications.
messages as they enter or leave your corporate infrastructure. Filter rules identify messages based
on message or attachment content, information about the network, message envelope, message
headers, or message body. Filter actions allow messages to be dropped, bounced, archived, blind
carbon copied, or altered, or to generate notifications.
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Message encryption via secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security ensures messages
travelling between your corporate infrastructure and other trusted hosts are encrypted.
travelling between your corporate infrastructure and other trusted hosts are encrypted.
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Virtual Gateway™ technology allows the Cisco appliance to function as several email gateways
within a single server, which allows you to partition email from different sources or campaigns to
be sent over separate IP addresses. This ensures that deliverability issues affecting one IP address
do not impact others.
within a single server, which allows you to partition email from different sources or campaigns to
be sent over separate IP addresses. This ensures that deliverability issues affecting one IP address
do not impact others.
AsyncOS for email supports RFC 2821-compliant Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to accept and
deliver messages.
deliver messages.
Most reporting, monitoring, and configuration commands are available through both the web-based GUI
via HTTP or HTTPS. In addition, an interactive Command Line Interface (CLI) which you access from
a Secure Shell (SSH), telnet, or direct serial connection is provided for the system.
via HTTP or HTTPS. In addition, an interactive Command Line Interface (CLI) which you access from
a Secure Shell (SSH), telnet, or direct serial connection is provided for the system.
You can also set up a Security Management appliance to consolidate reporting, tracking, and quarantine
management for multiple Email Security appliances.
management for multiple Email Security appliances.
Supported Languages
AsyncOS can display its GUI and CLI in any of the following languages:
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English
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French
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Spanish
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German
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Italian
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Korean
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Japanese
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Portuguese (Brazil)
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Chinese (traditional and simplified)
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Russian