Finjin Enables Safer Surfin' and Email

By Susan Hospod
iApplianceWeb
(11/28/01, 09:06:41 AM EDT)

Finjan Software's SurfinGate for E-Mail is the first comprehensive email security appliance. SurfinGate for E-Mail features Finjan's patented behavior inspection technology and anti-virus scanning in one integrated solution, providing organizations the much needed proactive ability to block new, unknown malicious code attacks without virus signature updates. The solution is available in a pre-configured, high-performance appliance and as a software plug-in to Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Finjan proactive solutions can provide effective multi-level defense from devastating worm attacks, like Nimda, SirCam and IloveYou, even before anti-virus companies have been alerted.

SurfinGate for E-Mail is the only gateway solution that is not dependent upon signature database updates alone and provides complete email security for organizations. With its patented, real-time content-inspection process to block malicious behaviors of inbound and outbound mail traffic, SurfinGate for E-Mail defends against new variants. SurfinGate for E-Mail also includes anti-virus scanning from McAfee to block all known viruses.

Delivered in an easy-to-deploy and manage plug-and play appliance, SurfinGate for E-Mail simplifies the administration of several security products by offering multiple lines of defense in one solution. In addition it features built-in load-balancing capabilities for high availability deployment.Finjan's proactive content inspection means patented, real-time behavior inspection of ActiveX, Java, VB Script, and JavaScript inside all parts of incoming and outgoing e-mails. Any new code that violates the security policy is blocked. New/unknown worms can be stopped without signature database updates, including script attachments and scripts hidden inside .zip files or HTML e-mails.

Anti-virus scanning is accomplished through McAfee's Olympus engine, which detects and removes known viruses from all inbound and outbound e-mails and attachments. Updates are downloaded automatically and full-featured anti-virus protection includes the ability to divert, store, and review suspect files by sender, recipient, file type, and file size. In addition SurfinGate for E-Mail offers robust filtering and exception handling with ongoing content management and immediate protection from new threats with granular block/allow capabilities. Administrators can white list approved code or block specific emails by sender, file type, file size, or by digital certificates.

SurfinGate for E-Mail starts at $49 per user. Volume licensing agreements are available. Appliance hardware is $5,000. The Beta version is available now for evaluation, and the final release is expected to ship in December.

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