Virus Bulletin just published their September 2010 test results (http://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/index), and Symantec Brightmail Gateway once against received a VBSpam designation – our 5th consecutive recognition.
In this month’s test, Symantec Brightmail Gateway registered an effectiveness score of 99.64%, with 0 false positives! It is great to see external validation for the premium that Symantec places on balancing very high effectiveness (over 99%) with accuracy (low false positives) in fighting spam.
You may be familiar with the Virus Bulletin name – Virus Bulletin is an independent third party that has been running comparative tests on antivirus technologies for over a decade. Symantec’s antivirus engines have achieved over 40 VB100 awards during this time.
Our team is thrilled with the latest results on the VBSpam testing. Symantec Brightmail Gateway is a core component of Symantec Protection Suite (Enterprise Edition and Advanced Business Edition), and is also available as a stand-alone enterprise product and the Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition, for customers with fewer than 250 employees.
Greetings, fellow Symantec Connect community members. This is Angelos Kottas, Principal Product Manager for Symantec Brightmail Gateway. This is my first blog posting on the Brightmail blog on Symantec Connect, and I look forward to hearing from many of you in the weeks and months ahead.
Since last we posted to this blog, the Symantec messaging security team has been very busy! We successfully released Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 in mid March, and have been pleased to see very rapid adoption of the new release.
We also saw several new product releases in our broader messaging security product lines, including Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange 6.5, Symantec Mail Security for Domino 8.0.5, and Symantec Brightmail Message Filter 6.2.
To learn about these new releases, click on the Release Notes from the product support pages.
I also hosted a recent webcast on “What’s New in Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0” – a recording of the webcast is available here: http://www.symantec.com/offer?a_id=95708
In addition to the core product releases, we are also very excited about two new Protection Suite offerings that include our messaging security products: Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition and Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition for Gateways. You can read more about the Advanced Business Edition here: http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article… ; and our new enterprise suite offerings here: http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article…
I’ll be back with more updates soon, but in the meantime, please respond to this posting with suggestions for topics that you would like to see covered in future blog postings.