Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.5 Pre-release Evaluation

On June 25th, 2013 Symantec will be launching the pre-release evaluation of Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.5. This new version of Symantec Messaging Gateway plans to introduce new features including.

• Remove Zero Day Malware and Targeted Attacks from Office and PDF attachments with new “Disarm” technology.
• Block more Spam and Malware with Expanded Threat URL Reputation
• Simplify management with LDAP Authenticated Administration
• Enhanced management of Unscannable Messages
• Communicate securely with trusted partners using enforced inbound TLS encryption
• Increase security with TLS encrypted delivery to Symantec DLP
• Control Spam attacks and message volume from inside the your environment with Outbound Sender Throttling Capability
• Deploy using new Hyper-V support

The Symantec ...

Did you see my session at Symantec Vision 2012?  If not, you missed me talk about how you need your very own Robocop to protect services, applications and storage that accept and distribute files.

His prime directives align very well with how you should approach your service and infrastructure security:

1. Serve the public trust - Your users will TRUST your service.  They'll ignore warnings and common sense because YOU are giving them access to something.

2. Protect the innocent - Your users are unlikely to be as security-aware as you are, they may not understand risks and they certainly shouldn't be trusted to protect themselves :)

3. Uphold the law - You need to be able to set and enforce policies and you need to do this at your...

One of the great things about working in the Messaging & Web Security BU is the amount of cool new technology and functionality we work on.  Some times, this is behind the scenes on our backend systems and other times this is new functionality for existing products.

This time, however, I'm really excited to announce the beta program of a brand new application:

Symantec Email Submissions Client

This application allows you to automate the submission of missed spam (aka false negatives) to Symantec, directly from your end user mailboxes.

Symantec Email Submission Client takes advantage of the Exchange Web Services framework built into Microsoft Exchange Server to provide a submissions solution that:

• Does NOT require any installation to you endpoint devices.
• Does NOT require any updates to be managed/pushed to your endpoint devices. 
• ...

We’ve been holding off on the news, but as many of you have realized, Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 (formerly Symantec Brightmail Gateway) is now available – in fact, over 1,800 customers have already upgraded to the new release. We mentioned many of the new features as part of our earlier beta announcement – thank you to everyone who participated! We had 150 beta participants registered. 

Many of our beta participants and early adopters of the new release have already shared great reviews about the new dispositions feature, a new method of personalizing your defenses against unwanted email by setting up policies against three new categories of email. This new feature allows Symantec to aggressively target email messages that some email users would like us to block, but that others consider legitimate. At Symantec, we have always valued accuracy (low false positives!) at least as much as effectiveness. By generating filters on these types of...