Messaging System/Anti-Spam Service offer network security

FortiMail Secure Messaging Platform includes antivirus detection engine for virus and spyware protection and complete email scanning. It uses FortiGuard-Antispam, access policy filtering, content filtering, global and user black/white list filtering, and spam Real-time Blackhole List. FortiGuard-Antispam Service eliminates spam at network perimeter. It checks against known spammer IP addresses and email content with Universal Resource Identifier scanning.

FortiMail(TM) Family and FortiGuard-Antispam Service Offer Enterprises Multi-Layered Protection to Eliminate Spam and Inline Network Viruses

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 7-- Fortinet -- the confirmed market leader in Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection -- today unveiled two powerful new additions to its network security solutions and services portfolio: FortiMail, a secure messaging system, and FortiGuard-Antispam, a managed antispam service. The FortiMail Secure Messaging Platform and FortiGuard-Antispam Service effectively layer antispam technology to offer antispam defense in-depth at the network perimeter and the mail server -- maximizing mail traffic performance by eliminating global spam at the network gateway, before it enters the corporate network.

Unwanted email or spam continues to present serious security challenges for enterprises and consumers alike. Increasingly, these messages contain spyware, grayware or other malicious attempts to adversely impact a customer's computing and networking resources. While many world governments have been writing legislation and enforcing penalties around spam creation and delivery, spam continues to be difficult to regulate and catch. Industry researchers suggest that 60 to 70 percent of all enterprise email is spam, and recent statistics suggest that a good portion of spam contains viruses or other types of attacks.