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Messaging Gateway
On-Premises Appliance

Introduction Multilayer Spam and Malware Filtering

Smart, comprehensive email security—whether your email Block unwanted email and prevent
system is on-premises, cloud-based, or both—begins with a delivery of malicious links and
clear, realistic understanding of what you’re up against. Email attachments.
is still the most popular and pervasive tool cybercriminals
use to launch and distribute threats including spear phishing, Targeted Attack Protection
ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks.
Get strong protection against
According to the 2017 Symantec Internet Security Threat
spear phishing, ransomware, and
Report (ISTR), one out of every 131 emails in 2016 contained
BEC attacks.
a malware attack, and 61% of organizations were hit by a
ransomware attack in 2016.
Content Filtering and Data Loss Prevention

Messaging Gateway Filter content for extensive inbound

defense. Prevent leakage of sensitive
Symantec™ Messaging Gateway is an on premises email security company information.
solution that provides inbound and outbound messaging
security including, powerful protection against the latest
• Stops BEC attacks using advanced heuristics, a BEC scam
messaging threats, including ransomware, spear phishing, and
analysis engine, sender authentication protocols (DMARC*,
business email compromise. It catches more than 99 percent
DKIM, and SPF), and domain intelligence to stop URL
of spam with a less than 1 in 1 million false positives, and
hijacking and identity spoofing.
effectively responds to new messaging threats with real-time
antispam and antimalware intelligence; built-in data protection • Defends against malicious links used in spear phishing
capabilities keep your email secure and confidential. campaigns with URL reputation filtering based on
Symantec’s global database which includes advanced
Messaging Gateway can be implemented as a virtual or
phishing variant detection, which sniffs out spear phishing
physical appliance, and you can easily add capacity to keep
links that are similar to known phishing attacks.
messages flowing as the volume of spam increases.
• Protects users from targeted attacks such as ransomware by
Stop Advanced Threats in Their Tracks removing zero-day document threats from Microsoft Office
Messaging Gateway combines multilayer detection technologies, and PDF attachments. Potentially malicious active content
powered by insights from the world’s largest civilian threat intel- from an attachment is removed and a clean document is re-
ligence, to effectively block and quarantine suspicious email. constructed, reattached to the email, and sent to the end user.

*DMARC available May 2018

• Blocks spam and directory harvesting attacks using a
combination of Symantec global and local sender reputation
databases, heuristics and customer-specific spam rules
that restrict up to 99 percent of unwanted email before it
reaches your network. Outbound sender throttling prevents
outbound spam attacks from compromised internal users,
and negatively impacting sender reputation.

Protect Sensitive Data; Prevent Unwanted Email

Messaging Gateway provides built-in content filtering and data
loss prevention controls that block or quarantine sensitive and
unwanted email.

• Advanced content filtering controls prevent unwanted

email such as newsletters and other marketing content
from reaching users. Integrate with Symantec
• Built-in data loss prevention policies make it easier to
Content Analysis, Threat
safeguard company data within messages or attachments. Isolation, and DLP
Administrators can build effective and flexible policies using
• For additional advanced threat protection capabilities,
100 pre-built dictionaries, patterns, and policy templates
Messaging Gateway can offload messaging file-based content
that help you implement automated data protection and
to Symantec Content Analysis for further inspection. This
enforcement policies.
includes actionable intelligence that combines static analysis,
• Automatic SMTP over TLS encryption ensures all email machine learning and behavior analysis techniques. An
communications in transit are secure. adaptive and customizable sandbox delivers comprehensive
malware detonation to quickly analyze suspicious files,
Manage Messaging Security with Deep Visibility interact with running malware to reveal its complete behavior,

A single web-based console provides granular policy configura- and expose zero-day threats and unknown malware.

tion and control, detailed reporting, and a consolidated view of

• For advanced protection from potentially malicious web
threat trends, attack statistics, and non-compliance incidents.
links contained in email, URLs can be rewritten to Symantec
Multiple Messaging Gateway appliances can be managed in a
Email Threat Isolation, a technology that executes web
mixed IPv4/IPv6 environment. sessions away from endpoints. Sending only safe rendering
information to users’ prevents any website delivered zero-
• Dashboard, summary, and detailed reports, including
day malware from reaching end user devices. Rendering
50 preset reports that are customizable by content and
potential spear phishing sites in read-only mode also stops
schedule frequency, highlight threat trends and potential
credential theft, since users are prevented from submitting
compliance issues.
corporate credentials or other sensitive information.
• Generated Syslog data can be exported into third-party security
• For organizations using or considering Symantec’s market-
and information tools (SIEM) for further correlation analysis.
leading DLP solution, Messaging Gateway tightly integrates
• Simple message tracking using a graphical message-audit with Symantec DLP to extend policy encforcement to the
interface provides the ability to quickly determine message email channel. Policy-based encryption is available as a
disposition and delivery status. Symantec Content Encryption add-on.

• Automatically receive threat alerts and notifications on virus Messaging Gateway Certifications
outbreaks, policy violations, and quarantine information. • Common Criteria EAL2
• FIPS 140-2
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Symantec Messaging Gateway 8300 Series
Hardware Appliances
Symantec Messaging Gateway 8340 Symantec Messaging Gateway 8380
Organization size Small/medium business Enterprise/large enterprise
Combined control center/scanner, dedicated Combined control center/scanner, dedicated
Typical implementation
scanner, or dedicated control center scanner, or dedicated control center
Form factor 1RU rack mount 1RU rack mount
Redundant, hot-plug, auto-switching,
Power supply Single
universal power supply
CPU Single quad-core processor Dual six-core processors
6x300 GB
Hard drive/RAID 2x1 TB SAS RAID 1 Serial-attach SCSI (hot-swappable)
RAID 10
NIC Gigabit Ethernet ports Gigabit Ethernet ports

System Requirements
Virtual appliance option (same features and functionality) Browsers (for administrative console)

• VMware ESXI™/VMware ESX®, VMware vSphere® 5.x, 6.x • Microsoft Internet Explorer® 11.0 or later

• Microsoft Hyper-V® 2008 or 2012 • Mozilla® Firefox® 45 or later

• Google Chrome™ 55 or later

About Symantec
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security company, helps organizations, governments and people secure their most important data
wherever it lives. Organizations across the world look to Symantec for strategic, integrated solutions to defend against sophisticated attacks across endpoints, cloud and
infrastructure. Likewise, a global community of more than 50 million people and families rely on Symantec’s Norton and LifeLock product suites to protect their digital
lives at home and across their devices. Symantec operates one of the world’s largest civilian cyber intelligence networks, allowing it to see and protect against the most
advanced threats. For additional information, please visit www.symantec.com or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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