Email Security.cloud

Hi Everyone,

I would really appreciate if someone can help me understand or share any documents which help me understand the following:

1. What all components are bundled with Brightmail?

2. How is brightmail licensed in an organization which has around 5000+ employees?

3. Is brightmail licensed on the number of mailboxes configured or any other criteria?

Regards

PRust

Hi PRust,

Symantec Messaging Gateway (formerly Symantec Brightmail Message Filter) includes the following key components / features:

• Targeted attack, malware, and zero-day threat protection.

• Provides effective, real-time protection against new and emerging threats before they cause disruptions.

• Anti-spam filter blocks more than 99% of spam with less than one in 1 million false positives and real-time automatic updates.

• Strong data loss prevention capabilities ensure customers stay in regulatory compliance.

• Customer- Specific Rules allow customers to easily create rules based on email they consider to be spam or on potentially targeted attacks.

• Optional encryption integration with Symantec Content Encryption or Symantec Gateway Email Encryption.

• Includes a dashboard, summary reports, and detailed reports demonstrating the efficacy and impact of Messaging Gateway while proactively highlighting threat trends and potential compliance issues.

• Flexible, configurable, easy-to-use Messaging Gateway virtual edition runs on VMware or Microsoft hypervisors in the hardware environment of the customer’s choosing.

Please visit the solution page for further info: http://www.symantec.com/messaging-gateway/

SMG is licensed on a per-user/per-year subscription model. The same license is valid for both the virtual edition and the standard appliance software. Customers purchase a subscription based on the relevant buying program, the number of employees they want to protect and the number of years they would like to be protected.

So if you have 5000 users, you would need a license for 5000 users on a 12/24/36 month subscription model.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Anthony

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for your revert. Could you please help me understand if for say there are 5000 mailboxes which are configured on an Exchange server and of those 1000 mailboxes are now inactive and have not been updated and removed from the server, would i need to have 5000 per user license or 4000 per user licenses only for the active mailboxes?

Regards!