LATEST RELEASE MAILMARSHAL 6.7
M86 Security proudly announces the immediate availability of MailMarshal SMTP 6.7 which includes IP Reputation and the Blended Threats Module™, the industry’s first integrated "in the cloud" malware protection and blended threat offering. Staking its claim as the strongest threat protection approach available on the market today, MailMarshal SMTP 6.7 combines content security, defense-in-depth anti-spam engine, blended threat detection and IP reputation analysis and applies it to both inbound and outbound email communication.
Summary
The Latest in Email Threat Protection
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Blended email threats constitute the primary means of infecting a computer with malware. Their success works on the basis of circumventing normal anti-virus measures by delivering the malware via a URL link to an infected website rather than attaching the malware to the email. The new Blended Threats Module for MailMarshal SMTP 6.7 provides reliable protection against malicious links embedded in email. This delivers greater security and protection against malware infections, associated clean-up costs and lost productivity.
Bandwidth Utilization & Spam Protection
Two new additions to MailMarshal’s anti-spam engine provide substantial benefits against spam. The IP Reputation Service can reliably reject over ½ of the spam your email gateway would normally receive. Given that spam typically constitutes up to 90% of all email an organization normally receives, the potential benefit is a halving of all incoming email and a substantial reduction in wasted bandwidth. This in turn means lower operating costs, enabling your dollars to go further.
SpamBotCensor recognizes and blocks spam generated by known Botnets. These Botnets are typically responsible for 80% of all spam in circulation.
These additions also provide benefits in improved spam detection performance and more reliable indicators of high probability spam, further reducing chances of false positives.
Improved Administration
New features such as automated user group pruning and the streamlined function for reporting spam/not spam to M86 enable administrators to spend less time managing messages and more time on productive tasks.
Anti-Spam IP Reputation
ANTI-SPAM | Marshal IP Reputation Service
The new Marshal IP Reputation Service from the M86 Security Labs is a real-time spam IP blacklist and a key evolution in MailMarshal’s Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine. It is ideally deployed as the first line of spam defense. In this role, the IP Reputation Service is utilized at the ESMTP layer and can assess the reputation of email servers when first attempting to establish a connection to your email gateway. If the IP Reputation Service recognizes the connecting server’s IP as a known spam server MailMarshal will drop the connection and deny spam messages from being transmitted. This provides substantial savings in bandwidth, server load and disk space.
During Beta testing the IP Reputation Service reliably rejected in excess of 60% of incoming spam (your results may vary). Given that most typical organizations see as much as 90% of their incoming email as spam, this can mean a considerable saving on bandwidth for your organization.
The IP Reputation Service integrates with the Automatic Adaptive Whitelist (AAW) feature introduced in MailMarshal SMTP 6.4. The AAW dynamically maintains a list of regular email contacts and uses this to ensure that the IP Reputation Service does not deny connections from servers that your organization normally communicates with; preventing unwanted blocking of email from your customers and partners should they become blacklisted.
The IP Reputation Service is maintained by the M86 Security Labs Team. It leverages real-time spam IP address intelligence from MailMarshal servers deployed around the globe. The IP Reputation list is a dynamic query service so it is always real-time and up-to-date.
Anti-Spam Botnet
ANTI-SPAM | SpambotCensor
Botnets are networks of compromised computers which can be remotely controlled by criminals. There have been many high profile Botnets, such as Storm, Srizbi, Conficker and Rustock, which command armies consisting of hundreds of thousands of infected computers. Botnets are a fundamental part of spam today. The M86 Security Labs was the first internet security research team to prove that just a handful of Botnets were responsible for over 80% of all the world’s spam. We call these Botnets, SpamBots.
SpamBotCensor is a new layer in the MailMarshal Defense-in-Depth Anti-Spam Engine which addresses the Spambot problem. It is a proprietary innovation derived from the years of research and analysis put into SpamBots by the M86 Security Labs. Spambots leave tell-tale imprints on the spam messages they send – the email equivalent of leaving fingerprints on an envelope. SpamBotCensor quickly and very accurately recognizes these characteristics, enabling high performance detection of spam from known Spambots.
SpamBotCensor is dynamically updated by the M86 Security Labs with the latest SpamBot signatures and new SpamBot profiles as those Botnets are identified by Security Labs engineers. This ensures that MailMarshal always has up-to-date intelligence on the latest SpamBot characteristics to block their spam.
Security - Blended Threats
SECURITY | Blended Threats Module
The Blended Threats Module for MailMarshal SMTP 6.7 provides unique protection against blended email threats. It is an optional service which uses the M86 Security cloud-based malware behavior analysis datacenter to observe and determine the malicious nature of embedded URLs in email messages. The Blended Threats Module provides a constantly updated library of known malicious URLs to block blended email threats.
Upgrading
UPGRADING
Exisiting MailMarshal SMTP customers with current maintenance agreements may upgrade to MailMarshal SMTP at no additional charge. If you are using an earlier version, we recommend upgrading to take advantage of the new features and security benefits offered by MailMarshal SMTP. Please contact us.
