Category Archives: Mail Security

Introducing DMARC Validation in Email Security.cloud

One of the oldest tricks in the book for spammers is to spoof or forge the “From” address so that the email appears to come from a legitimate source.

This month, Symantec is introducing DMARC Validation as a free upgrade for Email Security.cloud customers, further enhancing our protection against these types of spam, targeted attacks and phishing messages.

Big, popular brands are often used in phishing and scam email attacks and I’m sure you’ve seen some of them first hand.
This is why over 80,000 domains have published DMARC policies and since 2011 it has been quickly adopted by some of the largest global brands and email senders such as Paypal, Twitter, Outlook.com, Yahoo! Mail, Facebook, LinkedIn and Bank of America.

DMARC.org reports that more than 25 million email messages spoofing PayPal were detected and rejected by DMARC during the 2013 holiday buying season and Twitter reports that roughly 110 million messages per day were spoofing its domains prior to deploying DMARC, showing this implementation is effective.

“The attention so far has been on how DMARC helps protect consumers and big brand-owners, but as adoption rises it also offers improved protection to employees at organizations big and small.” said Steven Jones, Secretary of DMARC.org. “A lot of companies have been asking me about vendor-supported DMARC filtering to help protect their employees, so this is definitely a growing need in the market.”

Symantec Email Security.cloud customers will see the new configuration options in the admin interface, on or around March 29, 2014 and we encourage all customers to enable it as soon as they can.
You can enable DMARC Validation in the Spoofed Sender Detection settings located within the Antispam configuration in ClientNet. 

Further technical information on DMARC can be found at DMARC.org.

As attackers and miscreants try new ways to circumvent security, it’s vitally important that a security product or service continually evolves to protect against the latest threats.
Symantec’s cloud based Email Security offering is always up to date and doesn’t burden customers with software or hardware upgrades to get the latest benefits.
We track our own performance and publish metrics regularly against our SLAs online. 

 

Symantec’s comprehensive security expertise, vast global intelligence and portfolio offer organizations proactive, targeted attack protection across the endpoint, gateway and data center.

 

 

  

Disarm Advanced Persistent Threats with Symantec Messaging Gateway

Most people today rely on email as their method for business communication – sending and receiving hundreds of emails every day. This dependence on email can create a weak link in securing corporate information and expose a company to attacks. Wh…

Symantec Receives Eight Honors from Information Security Magazine and SearchSecurity.com 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards

Information Security™ magazine and SearchSecurity.com recently announced the winners of its 2013 Reader’s Choice Awards, which were selected based on feedback by customers who were asked to assess products deployed within their organizations. We’re excited to announce that Symantec was honored with eight awards – four Gold, two Silver and two Bronze –demonstrating significant representation across our diverse portfolio of market-leading security solutions.

Included below is a complete list of Symantec’s wins, which will be featured in the October edition of Information Security magazine and are highlighted online at SearchSecurity.com.

The Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com 2013 Readers’ Choice Award winners were selected based on extensive, in-depth discussions and interviews between the editors of Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com, and over 1,000 information security executives and managers. These executives and managers were asked to rate products deployed within their organizations from a listing of more than 350 products. The editors used these scores to determine Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners for the industry’s best security products.

For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners, please visit http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/essentialguide/Security-Readers-Choice-Awards-2013#guideCategory19.

 

Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards

 

Best of Endpoint Security

Gold: Symantec Endpoint Protection

 

Best of Data Loss Prevention

Gold: Symantec Data Loss Prevention

 

Best of Email Security

Gold: Symantec Messaging Gateway powered by Brightmail

 

Best of Authentication

Gold: Symantec User Authentication Solutions

Silver: Symantec Managed PKI for SSL

 

Best of Cloud Security

Silver: Symantec Email Security.cloud

Bronze: Symantec O3

 

Best of Web Security

Bronze: Symantec Web Security.cloud

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Announcing the upcoming Symantec Messaing Gateway 10.5 for Service Providers Beta Evaluation

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Formally known as Symantec Brightmail Message Filter
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