Welcome to the Symantec Messaging Security product family portal

You've always known that the antispam engine behind Symantec's award-winning mail security products is powered by Brightmail, the pioneer, market leader, and trusted brand associated with premier antispam technology. In April, 2011, Symantec is changing the name of the Brightmail family of products. This is a tremendous opportunity to elevate the Symantec brand with your customers, while offering the industry's leading products for effective and accurate antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, email encryption and data loss prevention.

Formal customer communication about the product name changes will begin in April, 2011, in conjunction with the launch of Messaging Gateway 9.5 (Previously Brightmail Gateway)

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Symantec Messaging Gateway/Virtual Edition (Formerly Symantec Brightmail Gateway)

Symantec Messaging Gateway powered by Brightmail, delivers inbound and outbound messaging security, with effective and accurate real-time antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, data loss prevention, and email encryption. It catches more than 99% of spam with less than one in a million false positives, leveraging real-time automatic updates, global and local IP reputation analysis, and comprehensive reporting to deliver cost-effective protection against new messaging threats.

Symantec Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition (Formerly Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition)

Symantec Messaging Gateway Small Business Edition is an easy-to-use appliance that protects email and IM from viruses, spam, phishing, botnets, and spyware. It is available as both a physical appliance and a VMware-based virtual appliance. With Meessaging Gateway Small Business Edition, companies can effectively respond to new email threats at a minimal ongoing cost.

Symantec Message Filter (Formerly Symantec Brightmail Message Filter)

Symantec Message Filter combines effective spam filtering, high accuracy rate and a flexible, high throughput engine. Message Filter provides user selectable industry specific filtering capabilities meeting the needs service providers without imposing a significant administrative burden. Supported by the extensive Symantec Global Intelligence Network, Message Filter protects over 800 million mailboxes and over 200 service providers globally.

Symantec Traffic Shaper (Formerly Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper)

Symantec Traffic Shaper stops spam before it enters the network—reducing total email volume by up to 70 percent and spam volume up to 80 percent while ensuring the continuous flow of legitimate email. By shaping email traffic at the TCP protocol level, this unique security appliance prohibits spammers from forcing unwanted email into your network. It increases the cost to spammer while helping you increase your bandwidth availability and reduce infrastructure cost.