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Takedowns of large botnet rings in recent years have caused spam numbers to plummet. However, the drop in spam doesn’t make spammers any le…
Did you see my session at Symantec Vision 2012? If not, you missed me talk about how you need your very own Robocop to protect services, applications and storage that accept and distribute files.
His prime directives align very well with how you should approach your service and infrastructure security:
1. Serve the public trust – Your users will TRUST your service. They’ll ignore warnings and common sense because YOU are giving them access to something.
2. Protect the innocent – Your users are unlikely to be as security-aware as you are, they may not understand risks and they certainly shouldn’t be trusted to protect themselves 🙂
3. Uphold the law – You need to be able to set and enforce policies and you need to do this at your application or storage level.
{If you’re a fan of Robocop, as I am, just ignore the “Classified” 4th directive… It doesn’t quite fit the metaphor 🙂 }
It gives you out-of-the box integrations with almost all storage vendors, many applications and services. Oh and we’ll also give you access to our SDK so you can embed our industry leading threat detection technology DIRECTLY INTO YOUR OWN APPLICATIONS.
I’m delighted to announce that we’re now accepting registrations for the Symantec Protection Engine 7.0 beta program.
This major release is the next generation of the technologies currently sold as Symantec Scan Engine and Symantec AV for NAS/Messaging/Caching.
For more information about this new release and the benefits of participating in our beta program, use this link: https://symbeta.symantec.com/callout/default.html?callid=7E4530E666124B0A80EFBF428FE32301
One of the great things about working in the Messaging & Web Security BU is the amount of cool new technology and functionality we work on. Some times, this is behind the scenes on our backend systems and other times this is new functionality for existing products.
This time, however, I’m really excited to announce the beta program of a brand new application:
This application allows you to automate the submission of missed spam (aka false negatives) to Symantec, directly from your end user mailboxes.
Symantec Email Submission Client takes advantage of the Exchange Web Services framework built into Microsoft Exchange Server to provide a submissions solution that:
Deploying the Symantec Email Submission Client allows you to:
In order to participate in this beta program, you must be running Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 or 2007 SP1 (or above).
To receive more information and to register for this beta program, use the following link:
http://symbeta.symantec.com/callout/?callid=6DFF3025F2654CE0AB37629981C7988E
When the final release ships, the Symantec Email Submission Client will be provided to all customers using a Symantec mail security product as part of your existing product entitlement. This includes customers using:
This beta program supports our commitment to product quality and customer satisfaction, enabling customers to download pre-release versions of our products and to provide feedback directly to members of the Symantec product team.
I’m excited to announce that the beta program has started for our next release of Symantec Protection for Sharepoint Servers.
You can sign up to this beta at this link : https://symbeta.symantec.com/callout/default.html?callid=8A18C6447CE54D99AD4ADEBCC28E7F9C
With this release, you’ll see new features such as:
We’re looking forward to your feedback!
//ian
I am pleased to announce that Symantec Web Gateway 5.0 is now available! Nearly half of our production deployments have already upgraded to the new version and the software is now available to all customers.
This release brings not only a s…
We’ve been holding off on the news, but as many of you have realized, Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 (formerly Symantec Brightmail Gateway) is now available – in fact, over 1,800 customers have already upgraded to the new release. We mentio…
I can’t believe we’re already one month in to the new year! It has been a busy January for the Mail & Web Security business at Symantec, as we plan for a full slate of product releases in the coming months. We have releases planned for all three of our Brightmail products, our web gateway solution, and our groupware products planned in 2011. We also have follow-on releases planned for our exciting new Next Generation Network Protection platform for service providers.
The threat landscape continues to evolve in dynamic and unexpected ways. We saw a remarkable drop in spam levels right after Christmas when some major botnets stopped sending out spam for a few weeks. The botnets did not go away, however, and we’ve seen spam bounce back in recent weeks. Check out www.symantec.com/brightmail/iqservices to see a clear illustration of this drop and recover, as well as a number of recent blog postings on threats. Don’t forget our monthly State of Spam & Phishing Report, which is posted to www.symantec.com/spam. And don’t forget our more general blog on the threat landscape from the Symantec Security Response team, posted here on Connect at https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/symantec-blogs/sr.
Stay tuned for some exciting announcements about our portfolio in the coming months. If there any questions you would like us to tackle on this blog, please drop us a note in the comments below – we look forward to continuing the dialogue!
On behalf of the entire mail and web security product team at Symantec, I wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year – we may be a bit late for the traditional New Year holiday, but we are just in time for the Chinese New Year – gong hay fat choy!
The Symantec Enterprise Security team is now accepting applications to participate in the Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.5 Beta program. Symantec Brightmail Gateway is also part of the Symantec Protection Suites.
The beta process is a great way for participants to get an early look at exciting new features in our upcoming release, and also get direct access back to the product development team on product feedback.
The 9.5 release includes:
Quality is one of the key Symantec deliverables and we strive to deliver a first class product with every release. So we want to get as much customer feedback as possible before we ship. By participating in this beta program, you can help to ensure this release is as successful as possible.
All participants must be members of the Customer Advisory Program, which is free to join for all customers entitled to support and maintenance.
http://www.symantec.com/connect/groups/symantec-customer-advisory-program-enterprise-security
Applying for the beta is simple, once you’ve registered for the CAP just complete the registration form at the following link.
https://symbeta.symantec.com/callout/default.html?callid=57918D6D4DCA486B86B16D586405477B
This is a great opportunity to receive an early release in order to plan your implementation and provide us with feedback to ensure issues are prioritized. We hope you can join us as we prepare for this exciting product release!
Welcome to the new Mail & Web Security Blog! Brightmail isn’t going away, but we wanted to expand our coverage to include news about our complete email and web security portfolio, including the Brightmail products (Brightmail Gateway, Brightmail Message Filter, and Brightmail Traffic Shaper), the Mail Security products (Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange and Mail Security for Domino), and Symantec Web Gateway.
In addition, Symantec’s messaging and web security products are core components of the Symantec Protection Suites.
Stay tuned for more updates, including an expanded cast of authors as we grow our coverage across a broader slice of the Symantec portfolio.