F-Secure launches Messaging Security Appliance for Service Partners and Large Enterprises

F-Secure today announces the arrival of the F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway™ P-Series to help large enterprises and service partners combat spam, viruses, phishing, denial of service attacks and directory harvesting attacks. Developed in co-operation with Proofpoint, the leader in large-enterprise messaging security solutions, the Messaging Security appliance also helps enterprises and service partners to enforce outbound email policies, defend against leakages of confidential information and comply with email-related regulations.

The solution has been designed to provide large organizations with the most cost-effective, future-proof solution for messaging security, ensuring that only legitimate messages enter and exit the enterprise. High availability is ensured by redundant power supplies, network interfaces and storage components. The two gateway models now available can be easily deployed in any combination to support tens of millions of messages per day.

The new P-Series is highly scalable and can be easily deployed in industry-standard cluster configurations to support complex or geographically distributed data centers. The product architecture allows multiple agent gateways to be managed from a single master console. The product provides a centralized, 100 percent web-based administration interface for defining messaging policies, monitoring messaging infrastructure, reporting and configuring end-user controls. At the same time an extensive set of predefined reports provide full visibility into the state of an enterprise messaging system.

The F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway appliances utilize the next generation in technology for email security taking automatic, corrective action using SMTP traffic control. Malicious connections are automatically blocked or throttled based on fully customizable mail traffic policies. The email firewall provides an impenetrable defense against a wide variety of network-level attacks thus keeping networks and email users safe while preserving network bandwidth.

Proofpoint's MLX Dynamic Reputation technology is the basis for the unrivalled anti-spam accuracy delivered by the Messaging Security Gateway appliance. Using MLX's machine learning capabilities, the spam detection module analyzes more than 200,000 structural and content attributes to accurately differentiate between spam and valid messages. Traditional anti-spam solutions evaluate only a limited number of attributes and are unable to decisively classify spam, leading to low effectiveness and a high rate of false positives. At the same time, F-Secure’s award winning anti-virus technology provides the industry’s most accurate protection against viruses. In antivirus, where speed is of utmost importance, F-Secure maintains record response times and sets the pace of development.

F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway P-Series appliances are immediately available in two different models the P600 and the P800.

For more information about the product, please visit: http://www.f-secure.com/products/fsmsgp.html

About F-Secure Corporation F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks. We want to be the most reliable provider of security services in the market. One way to demonstrate this is the speed of our response. According to independent studies in 2004 and 2005 our response time to new threats is significantly faster than our major competitors. Our award-winning solutions are available for workstations, gateways, servers and mobile phones. They include antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and antispyware solutions, as well as network control solutions for Internet Service Providers. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999, and has been consistently growing faster than all its publicly listed competitors. F-Secure headquarters are in Helsinki, Finland, and we have regional offices around the world. F-Secure protection is also available as a service through major ISPs, such as Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, PCCW and Charter Communications. F-Secure is the global market leader in mobile phone protection provided through mobile operators, such as T-Mobile and Swisscom and mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia. The latest real-time virus threat scenario news are available at the F-Secure Data Security Lab weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

For more information, please contact:

Jyrki Tulokas
Business Manager, Corporate Programs
Tel: +358 40 7697683
Email: 
firstname.lastname@f-secure.com