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Definition
Protect email, instant messages (IM) and SharePoint collaboration servers from external threats such as malware and viruses to preserve messaging system uptime, protect information assets and prevent data breaches.
Challenges
- Rising administrative IT costs of securing a messaging infrastructure
- Quickly spreading viruses and worms that have the potential to harm business networks
- Rising sophistication of threats by organized crime to steal corporate information.
- Ineffective spam detection and blocking for both email and IM
- Slow response time to outbreaks
- Increase of malware intrusion due to employee responding to spam and phishing
Symantec Solution: Messaging Security
Protection against external threats over inbound and outbound email, instant messages (IM) and SharePoint collaboration with integrated antispam, antivirus, and advanced content filtering.
- Improve productivity and avoid downtime by keeping malicious content out of your organization
- Lower operation costs and increase bandwidth by reducing message volume
- Improve end-user satisfaction by cutting down on false positives
- Reduce IT administration cost and complexity via easy configuration, centralized monitoring, and comprehensive reporting across email and IM
- Protect against botnets and low-volume senders via self-learning local reputation connection management
