Key Features

• Stops spam attacks in real time without compromising accuracy
• Multi-layered spam protection leverages over 17 different filtering technologies, including spam signatures, heuristics, reputation filters, language identification,and many proprietary methods
• Flexible spam management and mail policies let IT administrators customize and enforce spam and unwanted mail handling for different groups or users in an organization
• Intuitive Web-based Control Center enables powerful administration, centralizing and consolidating the management, customization, configuration, and monitoring of all parts of the system
• Consolidated reporting gives administrators visibility into aggregated filtering performance for deployed servers
• Administrators can quickly create custom organization-wide content filters to handle messages based on content, sender information, or other criteria
• Comprehensive threat protection helps consolidate email threat management and monitoring via optional virus scanning and cleaning
• Desktop plug-ins for popular email clients empower end users to take control of their inboxes by specifying approved languages, personal lists of allowed and blocked senders, and other settings
• Integrated email security solutions reduce the cost and complexity of ownership

Protects against spam, email-borne viruses, and other unwanted email

Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam™ combines effective spam catching with a high accuracy rate that prevents false positives. This award-winning spam protection not only defends against real-time spam attacks, but also proactively identifies first-time spam. With flexible and powerful spam management capabilities, it meets enterprise security needs without imposing a significant administrative burden. Leveraging multiple global operations centers, automated filter updates, and an unmatched view of global spam, Symantec allows administrators to solve their spam problem, not just manage it.

Multi-layered spam protection combines over 17 different filtering technologies that maximize spam detections (95% effectiveness*) and minimize false positives. Some of the filters are reputation-based, examining the source of the email. Others sift through the message content, applying signatures or heuristics technology. Attachment signatures and spam URL filters provide protection against the latest MIME and HTML-based filter evasion techniques used by spammers. Updated filters are automatically deployed to customer sites, requiring no administrator intervention.

Highly effective spam catching is accompanied by the industry’s best accuracy rate—one false positive in every million messages**. High accuracy rates allow customers to safely delete spam without review, eliminating the need to double-check quarantines for false positives.

The solution features a powerful Web-based administration console that includes both an administrator and end user quarantine. Administrators can enforce company or departmental handling of spam and unwanted mail by using policies that perform different actions for different groups or users in an organization. Supported actions include message modification or deletion, forwarding to an administrative email account, or quarantining for administrator or end user review.