Symantec Delivers Email Security

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC - News), the global leader in information security, today announced the Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series. Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series appliances are designed to dramatically reduce the volume of unwanted messages before they enter the corporate network, reducing administrative overhead, network bottlenecks, email infrastructure costs and storage requirements. Scheduled to be available in February, Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series appliances are designed for large businesses, enterprises and ISPs.

"Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series is the industry's first solution that is designed to reduce the overall mail volume entering a network by shaping traffic at the TCP protocol level," said Enrique Salem, senior vice president, gateway and network security, Symantec Corp. "This unique feature enables customers to reduce the volume of unwanted messages and defend against spam attacks, allowing them to reclaim control of their email infrastructure."

Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series is designed to provide large enterprises and ISPs an effective solution to reduce and slow the inbound flow of spam traffic, thereby reducing email volume by over 50 percent before it ever enters the corporate network while ensuring timely delivery of legitimate business messages. Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series appliances can automatically control the flow of email based on the sender's actual behavior as well as reputation data from Symantec's Sender Reputation Service. Based on objective analysis of sending patterns at the network level, Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series can identify abusive senders and prevent them from sending spam into a protected network.

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CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC - News), the global leader in information security, today announced Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series. Designed to provide a secure email gateway, Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series appliances help ensure an available email infrastructure. Customers are offered the highest level of spam and virus protection through the integration of Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and Symantec AntiVirus technologies. Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series also integrates volume management, attack prevention, content filtering, encryption, anti-forgery and archiving functionality into a single solution. Scheduled to be available in February, Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series appliances are designed for medium and large businesses.

"Email is the single most critical channel for both internal and external business communication," said Enrique Salem, senior vice president, gateway and network security, Symantec Corp. "Symantec is the only industry-leading company that can deliver best-of-breed integrated email security solutions at the network, gateway and server layers with multiple deployment options for all organizations."

Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series appliances provide a series of email security features including an innovative Email Firewall to significantly reduce the total volume of email. This is enabled by a unique combination of SMTP connection management and attack detection to reduce email infrastructure costs by restricting connections from dangerous servers. Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series offers customers a set of automated and configurable connection management features that go into effect as soon as an incoming connection is detected. The solution can be automatically configured to block spam attacks, virus attacks, directory harvest attacks and connections from senders that have been identified as suspicious.

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