Symantec has announced the release of Brightmail Gateway 9.0, which offers enhanced email security features, including real-time updates, integrated email encryption, and increased scalability for both enterprises and small businesses. The new version aims to block more spam and targeted attacks while providing greater control over email communications and compliance with data privacy regulations. Additionally, it includes improved performance through a new directory data service architecture and a spam quarantine system to better handle rising email volumes.

1. Symantec Brightmail™ Gateway 9.0
Symantec Brightmail™ Gateway 9.0 Small Business
Edition
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2. Email Security Trends
Message Volume:
Spam as a Percentage of Email Volume
100% growth from 2008-2012
419 Spam
Spam Volume: PDF Spam
Image Spam
90% + of email 90%
Phishing
HTML
IT Budgets: ASCII
Simple Text
2% or less growth
Regulations:
Data Privacy Laws and
Cost of Data Breach 8%
2001 2009
Source: Symantec State of Spam Report Severity/Complexity
What Customers Need
• Effectiveness – Block more threats as attackers innovate
• Control – Apply rigorous policies without blocking legitimate business
• Scale – Same infrastructure should support increasing message volume
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3. Attack Velocity
3 minutes
5 minutes
10 minutes
23 minutes
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4. Low Volume, High Impact Attacks
419 (Scams)
• Often delivered via Web Mail abuse
• Potential financial damage is high
Phishing (Fraud)
• Risk of Brand Damage is high
• Attacks are low volume, but
increasingly targeted
Scams and Phishing Attacks represented 21% of spam
in January 2010, compared to 10% in January 2009
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5. Growing Demand for Data Privacy and Encryption
Policies Breach Notification Laws
• HIPAA
• PCI DSS
• GLBA
• SARBOX
• PIPEDA
• UK Data Protection Act
• etc.
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6. What are we announcing
• Symantec is announcing the release of Symantec Brightmail
Gateway 9.0 and Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 Small
Business Edition, which:
– Deliver enhanced protection through real-time updates,
– Provide greater control through integrated email encryption, and
– Offer increased scalability to meet the needs of both enterprises and
small businesses.
• Symantec Brightmail™ Gateway delivers inbound and outbound
messaging security, with effective and accurate real-time
antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering,
data loss prevention, and email encryption.
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7. Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0
Better • Block more spam as volumes and complexity
Protection rise
Greater • Better protect and encrypt sensitive,
confidential, and regulated information against
Control risk of loss
Increased • Scale infrastructure cost-effectively in the face
Scalability of rising volumes
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8. Better Protection
Automated Feedback Loop
• Streamlined participation in Probe Network
• Improves antispam effectiveness
– Globally
– Tailored to customer traffic
Real Time Updates
• New streaming model for frequent antispam rule
updates
• Improves responsiveness to new attacks, increases
overall antispam effectiveness
Defense Against Targeted Attacks
• Advanced machine learning module trained on
targeted 419 scams and phishing attacks
• Reduces the risk of low volume but high cost
attacks from getting through defenses
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9. Greater Control
Adding Choice in Policy-Based Content Encryption
• Symantec Content Encryption, a premium hosted encryption service
• Benefits:
– Does not require additional servers or key management
– Scalable from SMB to Enterprise
– Policies are handled by Brightmail Gateway
– Hybrid architecture leverages Symantec Hosted Services infrastructure
– Message is encrypted and secure at all times on the wire
Brightmail Gateway
Customer Network
Unencrypted Communications
Unencrypted
Users Email TLS
Recipient
Server
Encrypted Email
Policy Encryption Based on Policies
Configuration
Admin Encrypted/Unencrypted Encrypted
Response Based on Config
Recipient
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10. Increased Scalability
New Directory Data Service (DDS) Architecture
• LDAP functionality: Brightmail Gateway Brightmail Gateway
Scanner Control Center
– Recipient Validation
– Authentication
DDS DDS
– Address Resolution (group policies)
– Routing
• Benefits:
– Scalability and performance
– Simplified directory structure and expanded directory support
– Support for advanced features (Secure LDAP, multiple sources)
Directory
New Spam Quarantine Architecture Service
• Move spam quarantine from relational database to file Active Directory, Domino, SunOne, etc.
system
• Benefits:
– Improved performance with high-speed disk access
– Increase scalability by up to 2 orders of magnitude
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11. Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition
• Targets small and medium-sized businesses with 250 users and
below
• Same enterprise class protection
• Installation in less than 15 minutes
• Simple per-appliance licensing
• Budget-conscience small business pricing
• Available as both a physical appliance and a VMware-based
virtual appliance
• Limited US launch (physical appliance only) with 8.0 release,
global launch (physical and virtual) with 9.0 release
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12. The accuracy of Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business
Edition is unbelievable. We're blocking around 25,000 spam
messages a day, and we haven't had one false positive. And, with
the outbound message filtering, I finally have control over the
content that leaves our organization -- from now on, email around
here is going to be like Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Sean Adams, IT Manager
Bertelkamp Automation
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13. Thank you!
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14. Questions & Answers
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