Symantec Mail Security f/Microsoft Exchange 7.0, 25-49u, 1Y, ENG 4BI2WZF0-BI1EB Leaflet

Symantec™ Mail Security for Microsoft®
Exchange 7.0

Superior protection with unparalleled performance for Microsoft Exchange
Server environments

Data Sheet: Messaging Security

Symantec™ Mail Security for Microsoft® Exchange combines
Symantec™ AntiVirus with advanced heuristics to provide real-
time email protection against viruses, spyware, phishing,
and other malicious attacks while enforcing content
filtering policies on Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007, 2010
and 2013. In addition, Mail Security leverages Symantec™
Premium AntiSpam, powered by Brightmail technology, to
stop 99 percent of incoming spam with less than 1 in 1 million
false positives. It supports Hosted, Microsoft® Hyper-V, or
VMWare® virtualized Exchange server environments.
Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange complements
other layers of protection by preventing the spread of email
borne threats and enforcing data loss prevention policies.

• Support for Microsoft Exchange 2013 and Microsoft®

Hosted Exchange environments

• Out-of-the-box content filtering templates for protection

against data loss

• Improved antimalware and antispam effectiveness through

advanced heuristics

• Improved manageability with full message quarantine
• Up to 30 percent performance improvement for mailbox

scanning

• Microsoft® Systems Center Operation Manager 2007 R2

support for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

• Continuous protection with lightweight scanning

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Protection

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• Upgraded antispam and antivirus components leveraging

Symantec’s latest protection techniques

• Ability to scan messages in transit or on the mailbox to

protect against email borne threats

• Powered by Premium AntiSpam, stopping 99 percent of

spam with less than a 1 in 1 million false positive rate

• Rapid release definitions and advanced

heuristic technologies provide immediate protection

• Advanced content filtering protects sensitive information

using pre-defined policies, regular expressions, attachment
criteria, true file typing, and more. Microsoft Active
Directory® based enforcement simplifies policy
management

• Supported by the largest investment in infrastructure with

a security R&D team that is 50 percent larger than the
closest competitor

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Flexible and Easy to Use Management

Flexible and Easy to Use Management

• Initial setup can be completed within 10 minutes, with no

requirements for tuning, allow listing, or block listing

• Management console provides remote

installation, centralized server group policy configuration,
notifications, alerts, and reporting

• Support for Microsoft Exchange Database Availability

Group, along with Microsoft and Veritas® cluster servers in
Exchange 2007, minimizes downtime and simplifies
maintenance

• Integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations

Manager enables end-to-end monitoring of your IT
environment

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• Flexible real-time, scheduled, and manual scanning

provides efficient protection

• In-memory scanning and effective multi-threading provides

superior performance

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Source: Technology Business Research, Inc. Security and Corporate Infrastructure Vendor Benchmark, May 2009

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