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MessageLabs is one of the industry-leading services to guard against email threats such as viruses, spam, identity theft and targeted blackmail campaigns – all of which jeopardize business continuity, regulatory compliance, reputation and brand. You need no extra hardware or software to use the service. Messagelabs guarantees 100% protection against viruses, known and unknown. Messagelabs email service provides Email Protect (Multi-layered anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-phishing email services), Email Control (Content control, image filtering and advanced email management services), Email Secure (Fully managed guaranteed boundary-to-boundary email encryption services) and Email Recover (Fully managed archiving service guarantees secure storage of corporate email).

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The IronPort® email security appliances are the most sophisticated systems available today. In production at eight of the ten largest ISPs and more than 20 percent of the world’s largest enterprises, these systems have a demonstrated record of unparalleled security and reliability. The same code base that powers IronPort’s most sophisticated customers is available in all of IronPort’s email security appliances, to protect enterprises of all sizes.

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Astaro Security Gateway Appliances combine ease-of-use with complete network protection. It’s an UTM (Unified Threat Management) device, with tightly integrated Firewall, IPS, and VPN, which offers web filtering and email filtering from viruses, spam, and phishing attacks. Network security applications can be managed from one location using one intuitive browser-based user interface. Astaro Security Gateway appliances run Astaro Security Gateway Software (formerly Astaro Security Linux). You can request a demo unit of the appliance if you want an out-of-the box solution, or download the Astaro Security Gateway Software if you want to install it in your own hardware.

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Netscreen series integrated devices incorporating a firewall, IPSec VPN capabilities, and denial of service mitigation, with Unified Threat Management (UTM) security features including Stateful firewall, IPS, Antivirus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Phishing, Anti-Adware, Anti-Spam, and Web Filtering to protect the network from attack. I’ve installed and manage a lot of Netscreen firewalls. They’re excellent UTM device but if you’re looking for a cheaper option, then Sonicwall also can do the job.

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The Barracuda Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution for complete protection of your email server. It provides a powerful, easy to use, and affordable solution to eliminating spam and virus from your organization. It’s features include Anti-spam, Anti-virus, Anti-spoofing, Anti-phishing, Anti-spyware (Attachments) and Denial of Service protection. The Barracuda Spam Firewall is compatible with all email servers and can fit into nearly any corporate or small business environment

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Thunderbird is a full-featured, cross-platform, secure, free and open-source email application. It supports IMAP and POP mail protocols as well as HTML mail formatting. Thunderbird has a built-in anit-spam and anti-phishing filters. It’s built-in RSS capabilities makes it an excellent News reader too. Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features including S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices.

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A free, open-source mail filter, written in Perl, to identify spam using a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text. This is a very powerful server side anti-spam filter which can be used on a wide variety of email systems including procmail, sendmail, Postfix, qmail, and many others. I’ve been using SpamAssassin in many Qmail servers and the results are amazing. It’s easy to install and requires very little configuration. Policies can be applied on both mail servers and later using the user’s own mail user-agent application.

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DNSstuff is a Free fast, advanced and comprehensive web-based DNS and domain name tools for DNS hosting, going beyond just ping and traceroute. DNSstuff’s mission is to help you resolve and avoid DNS issues. It contains almost everything that you want to do with DNS, some useful security features are DNS Report, DNS Lookup, Reverse DNS Lookup, SPAM Database Lookup, IP information, E-mail Test, Abuse Lookup, URL DEOBFUSCATOR and Free E-mail Lookup. This is a site that every network security professional should have in his/her bookmark.

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This solution is designed for small businesses that need desktop and server anti-virus and anti-spyware, basic email protection within Outlook applications, and a desktop firewall. Scanning for virus and unwanted programs occur transparently, and security updates are automatic. Reporting and configuration control is delivered through the Web-based management console of McAfee SecurityCenter. The Advanced option allows server-side email anti-virus and anti-spam solution for your own domain. We’ve been using this solution for a long time and can highly recommend it. You can apply for free 30 days evaluation before deciding to buy.

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