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Business Store > Symantec Brightmail Gateway 8.0 Subscription + Essential 12 Months Support

Brightmail Gateway appliances (formerly Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series) deliver inbound and outbound messaging security, with effective and accurate antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, and data loss prevention.

Key Features

  • Industry leading antispam with 99% effectiveness and accuracy of less than 1 in a million false positives, with continuous automatic updates
  • Reliable and effective antivirus protection, including zero-day protection, with the only industry record of over 40 consecutive VB100 awards since November 1999
  • Advanced content filtering and data loss prevention protects sensitive client data and valuable confidential information
  • Comprehensive reporting featuring a dashboard, executive summary and detailed reports demonstrating efficacy and impact while proactively highlighting threat trends and potential compliance issues

Key Benefits

  • Protects messaging infrastructure and helps ensure business uptime and user productivity by reducing spam volume and keeping email secure
  • Protects messaging infrastructure and helps ensure business uptime and user productivity by eliminating malware threats.
  • Protects company reputation and manages risks associated with data loss, internal governance, and regulatory compliance
  • Reduces administrative costs by removing the complexity of multiple consoles, disparate policies, and incompatible logging and reporting, while demonstrating efficacy and impact of messaging security
 
 
 

Data Sheet

New Features
Symantec Brightmail Gateway appliances feature integrated, award-winning antispam, antivirus, advanced content filtering, and data loss prevention technologies to protect against email-borne threats and control the flow of sensitive data at the SMTP gateway. Customers running earlier versions of the software can take advantage of the following new features:

Adaptive Reputation Management

  • Enhanced reputation architecture leveraging expanded real-time global reputation and self-learning local reputation scoring.
  • Brightmail Adaptive Reputation Management delivers better antispam protection, higher scalability, and more resiliency to new spam attacks.

Bounce Attack Prevention

  • New antispam protection approach to address an entire class of spam, known as bounce attack or NDR spam, by tagging outbound email and validating bounced messages as legitimate.

Integration with Symantec Data Loss Prevention (formerly Vontu)

  • Streamlined integration with Symantec Data Loss Prevention suite to protect confidential data across endpoint, network, and storage systems.

Clients (Internet browsers)
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0
  • Firefox 2.0, 3.0

Virtualization Platforms (Virtual Edition)
  • VMware ESX 3.5
  • VMware ESXi 3.5

Hardware Platforms (traditional appliance – contact a sales representative at 1-800-631-8124 for more information):
  • Symantec Brightmail 8300 Series
  • Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series
  • Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series

No International orders are accepted on this site. To place an order outside the US and Canada, please visit our regional stores.