Symantec Brightmail Gateway

Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series appliances feature integrated, best-of-breed antispam, antivirus, and advanced content filtering technologies to stop spam, viruses, and other email-borne threats at the SMTP gateway. Customers running earlier versions of the software can take advantage of the following new features:

New VMware support: Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series - Virtual Edition

• Includes a virtual appliance deployment option on VMWare Server 1.0.4 and ESX 3.0.2, under the same SKU and license as the standard software
• Allows customer flexibility on choice of hardware
• Enables dynamic resource allocation and low-cost high availability option
• Provides investment protection

New Comprehensive Reporting and Monitoring

• Improves clarity, consistency and completeness of reporting, including a new Dashboard, Executive Summary, and updated reports
• Demonstrates the efficacy and impact of the solution
• Proactively highlights threat trends and potential compliance issues
• Enhanced message audit log provides more detailed information on the final disposition of filtered messages.

Improved Administrative Controls

• Provides more intelligent notifications using different variables, subject or body modification, and other options
• Enables fully configurable granular backup, including multiple scheduled backup sessions with different configurations
• Improves message handling with invalid recipient rejection using dynamic LDAP, allowing customers to avoid ever accepting a message
• Reduces legal exposure while improving scalability
• Enhanced IP reputation module with DNS-based look-up significantly enhances scalability while eliminates many false positives by no longer walking headers for reputation

Other Enhancements

• Introduces group IM policies and network access control, extending IM functionality
• Adds localization in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean