Enterprise Edition 4.0

SPS EE 4.0 Getting Started Guide Nov. 2012
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SPS Component
Description
Benefit
security software solution that enables end-to-end
monitoring of your IT environment.
Messaging
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.
Messaging Gateway is simple to administer and
catches more than 99% of spam with less than
one in a million false positives. Defend your email
perimeter, and quickly respond to new
messaging threats with this market leading
messaging security solution.
Deploy Messaging Gateway as a virtual appliance
or purchase a dedicated physical hardware
appliance.
■ Detects spam, denial-of-service attacks, and other
inbound email threats
■ Leverages a global sender reputation and local sender
reputation analysis to reduce email infrastructure costs by
restricting unwanted connections
■ Filters email to remove unwanted content, demonstrate
regulatory compliance, and protect against intellectual
property and data loss over email
■ Protects sensitive client data and valuable confidential
information, with the ability to fingerprint and identify
actual company data within messages or attachments.
■ Obtains visibility into messaging trends and events with
minimal administrative burden
Web Gateway
Symantec Web Gateway is an innovative Web
security gateway appliance that protects
organizations against Web threats, which include
malicious URLs, spyware, botnets, viruses, and,
other types of malware.
Symantec Web Gateway provides controls for
Web content and Internet applications. Backed
by the Symantec™ Global Intelligence Network,
Symantec Web Gateway is built on a scalable
platform that quickly and simultaneously scans
for malware and inappropriate Web content.
Symantec Web Gateway helps organizations to
maintain critical uptime and employee
productivity by blocking attacks.
Deploy Web Gateway as a virtual appliance or
purchase a dedicated physical hardware
appliance.
■ Fast protection at the Web gateway across multiple
protocols for inbound and outbound web traffic
■ Protection against malware threats on all Web file
transfer channels
■ Ability to inspect for, detect, and block active botnets
■ URL filtering with flexible policy controls and in-depth
reporting (the URL filtering license is required)
■ Advanced application control capabilities with ability to
monitor and control usage by end-users spanning multiple
applications
■ Detection of compromised endpoints by network
fingerprinting and behavioral modeling
■ Comprehensive Web reporting and alerting
■ Flexible policy controls, which allow policy creation on
Web-based criteria and control over of how policies are
applied across an organization
■ SSL-encrypted network traffic monitoring for URL
content filtering, blacklisted-domain matching, and