The only mail-server alternative that combines power, scalability and complete email assurance in a single award-winning product suited for both service providers and corporate email solutions.
ModusMail is a powerful and robust mail server that fully manages inbound and outbound email traffic while offering comprehensive protection from spam, fraud, phishing, viruses, spyware, out-of-policy communications and other threats to email integrity. The ModusMail secure email server combines full POP3, SMTP, IMAP4 and HTTP support together with the proven Modus™ email assurance technology. Together, they provide a total email processing capability that will meet today’s needs and combat today’s email threats while offering the flexibility and scalability to address tomorrow’s.
Performance & Monitoring At Your Fingertips
Wherever ModusMail is placed in your network, its operations can be monitored using a real-time dashboard display, SNMP, and Windows™ performance monitors. At a glance, system managers can determine the system’s complete operational status and view real-time usage statistics. Server operations can be managed either locally or through ModusMail’s convenient web interface.
Web Access
ModusMail includes a convenient web interface facility that enables both users and managers to access the server remotely. The facility includes complete web mail functions, quarantine capabilities, trusted sender support, aliases and configurable end-user settings.
Not Just Warmed-over Open Source Technology. And Not Just Any Supplier.
You have many anti-spam and so-called email security software packages and vendors to choose from. Many use conventional anti-spam code based on the Open Source Initiative, warmed over to make a proprietary package. While most have essentially the same capabilities – they also have the same limitations! The key issue, however, is that Open Source-based security packages are an open-book to spammers.
Not Just Warmed-over Open Source Technology. And Not Just Any Supplier.
You have many anti-spam and so-called email security software packages and vendors to choose from. Many use conventional anti-spam code based on the Open Source Initiative, warmed over to make a proprietary package. While most have essentially the same capabilities – they also have the same limitations! The key issue, however, is that Open Source-based security packages are an open-book to spammers.
Bottom Line: 98%+ filter and up to 99.9% false-positive accuracy!
Modus-based products or services offer an unbeatable email assurance value to both service providers and administrators of corporate email servers. In test after test, the Modus-based technology proved 98+% accurate and offered 99.99% protection against false-positives.
Modus™
A truly innovative technology from the company with the longest track record of award-winning email assurance products and services.
Not Just Warmed-over Open Source Technology.
You have many anti-spam and so-called email security software packages and vendors to choose from. Many use conventional anti-spam code based on the Open Source Initiative, warmed over to make a proprietary package. While most have essentially the same capabilities – they also have the same limitations! The key issue, however, is that Open Source-based security packages are an open-book to spammers.
Modus is Smart. Very Smart.
The heart of all Vircom Email Assurance products is its Modus technology. It was created from the realization that there is no single tool that can adequately solve the complex problems that threaten email productivity today. As a result its Modus™ technology combines several different tools to optimize spam and virus protection and also offer administrators the powerful management and monitoring features they need.
Modus technology is typically deployed as part of a mail server, gateway or appliance which can be integrated with any existing network server. Its flexible design provides the comprehensive email protection necessary to meet today’s threats as well as the essential flexibility and scalability to meet tomorrow’s. In front of your existing servers, it provides a full suite of filtering and intrusion prevention features, including perimeter defense, sender authentication & accreditation layers, Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection, hacking prevention, and attachment blocking -- all managed within two powerful filtering engines that to ensure optimal and unequalled accuracy in catching threatening email and ensuring versatile email policy management.
ModusGate Intercepts Early.
Modus technology begins before accepting an email message for delivery. It is the first defense against DoS, OpenRelay and harvesting attacks. It validates the sending server against appropriate accreditation services and authenticates the sender, and if the message cannot be validated, Modus will not accept the message, thereby avoiding the expenditure of valuable system resources on the handling of messages known to be bad. This step alone can reduce unwanted email traffic and its needless processing by as much as 75%!
Attachment Screening
Modus examines email attachments using a configurable schema to scrutinize specific file formats, enforce your own organization’s email policies and trap any unblocked viruses. Applying optional added virus protection (based on McAfee™ or Norman Data Defense™) locks viruses away from user inboxes and provides extra security even in virus-protected environments.
Sender Scrutiny
Modus determines whether email should be blocked (blacklisted) or passed (whitelisted) based on sender information. User configurability ensures a versatile, multi-level, and secure scrutiny of emails.
Content Purification & Analysis
Modus proprietary “purification” processes then examine message contents through two distinct analysis engines to neutralize any form of hidden code or identify spam characteristics within the email.
Modus can utilize administrator-customized scripts prepared through Vircom’s Sieve™ facility to manage email against the user’s policy or as a fall-back to block worm or Trojan outbreaks. Then, Modus passes the email through its Sequential Content Analysis (SCA™) engine. This proprietary process performs a statistical analysis of the content of the email message using a binary, dictionary-less, language agnostic method in which to assess spam patterns. The SCA analysis is performed against the latest spam identification rules which are automatically updated by Vircom. Altogether, this provides unparalleled accuracy and a virtually false-positive-free process.
Email Threat Prevention
As a preemptive email security service that sits between the Internet and our customer's email gateway, ModusMail prevents email threats from ever reaching your network. ModusMail is a recognized leader in effectively stopping spam, phishing, viruses, directory harvest attacks and other email threats through its patented, multi-layer technology. No other vendor provides such wide scope and in-depth protection from email intrusions.
Anti-Spam
Vircom is proven to be one of the most effective solutions for eliminating spam. In a comparison test of leading anti-spam products as reported in Network World magazine, Vircom has a long history of winning awards or recognition for its leading email assurance products and technology with the best overall balance of accuracy (97%) and false positives (.08%).
Anti-Virus
As the incidence and severity of email viruses has nearly tripled in past year, Vircom consistently demonstrates superior anti-virus capabilities, blocking more than 1 billion viruses in 2004 alone. Vircom's multi-layer antivirus protection coupled with its patent-pending technology protects your email system from the initial outbreak of a virus---its zero hour---until an antiviral signature is available. Thus, Vircom prevents viruses from ever getting inside your network, and keeps viruses such as netsky and bagle from infecting PCs and turning them into zombies that can be taken over to send even more spam.
Anti-Phishing
Vircom Modus blocks phishing attacks by applying several hundred spam filtering rules targeted specifically at phishing techniques. Postini routinely blocks more than 400,000 phishing attempts each day.
DHA Prevention
Directory harvest attacks not only "lead and fuel" spam attacks, they sap mail server performance and affect quality of service. Vircom Modus performs real time inspection of every IP address that connects to its service. Patented IP analysis based on more than two-dozen variables that determine if the "behavior" of the message exhibits the characteristics of a DHA, spam, or virus, enables Modus to block connections without seeing the actual message. Processing more than 450 million inbound SMTP connections every day from 10 to15 million distinct IP addresses, Vircom Modus currently blocks more than half of SMTP connections and then applies rigorous content filtering for the balance of messages.
Policy Compliance.
Vircom helps assure inbound and outbound content policy compliance concerning offensive language, preventing employees from sending proprietary content outside the organization, and prohibiting employees from using email for illegal and inappropriate purposes. Vircom supports encrypted email transmission, helps monitor employee communications, and preserves network bandwidth by limiting the size and type of attachments that are accepted.
Encryption Support
Vircom supports secure email transmissions based on the TLS encryption standard, and is the world's largest encrypted email network. Encrypted emails processed by Vircom still pass through its managed service data centers and are automatically scanned to block spam, viruses, and enforce content policy and compliance. Thus, Vircom is able to support encrypted email transmission over the Internet while preserving the ability to filter out unwanted or malicious messages and prevent email content policy violations.
Legal & Regulatory
Vircom's outbound email functionality enables the administrator to automatically block, reroute or copy email matching certain criteria. For example, the enterprise can retain copies of all mail sent by professionals covered by industry regulations, or containing key phrases. To meet regulatory requirements that require retention of all email communications, Vircom also offers a "compliance switch" to assure that any quarantined emails cannot be read by the user unless they are first accepted by the user into the customer's archiving system. Because Vircom does not use a "store and forward" approach typical of other service providers, its patented pass-through process eliminates any performance penalty or security and privacy concerns.
Content Filtering
Vircom 's Modus email security managed service provides both inbound and outbound email policy enforcement capabilities. Outbound email filtering enables organizations to scan outbound messages for viruses and apply content policies, protecting both customers and partners and ensuring that corporate policies regarding appropriate use are observed. Inbound anti-virus scanning prevents viruses from entering a corporate network through the gateway. Outbound anti-virus scanning prevents the spread of viruses to customers and partners. Outbound content filtering also prevents confidential or sensitive data from leaving the enterprise network and entering the hands of competitors.
Attachment Filtering
While inbound attachment management reduces the resources required to process unwanted attachments (such as large MP3 music files), outbound attachment filtering can be used to prevent sensitive or confidential file types from leaving the enterprise.
Email Management
Vircom helps improve email management through a convenient web console that provides real time monitoring and alerting, as well as comprehensive reporting for administrators. Users get the flexibility to access and examine quarantined emails within limits set by administrators. Email system availability and uptime are enhanced with load balancing and business continuity assured through disaster recovery capabilities.
Disaster Recovery
Vircom provides disaster recovery and business continuity measures to ensure maximum availability of the enterprise's email system. In the event of a customer server outage, it will spool emails until the customer's email servers come back online and messages can be delivered. Spooling ensures that no messages are lost or bounced back to senders.
Monitoring & Alerting
Vircom delivers control and visibility over the entire enterprise email system, not just a single server or single geographic location. Real-time dashboard monitoring and alerting from a Web-based console provides continuous control and insight into all email traffic into and out of the enterprise.
Load Balancing
Vircom ensures the smooth delivery of email to your systems by load balancing traffic across specified email servers. This helps administrators handle traffic spikes and improve the availability and reliability of all email servers.
Comprehensive Reporting
Through a single web management interface, an email administrator can monitor all email flow and traffic conditions, and view reports from anywhere. Dozens of summary and detailed reports of email activity are instantly available, enabling you to fine-tune rules and filters for domains, user groups and individual users.
Managed Service
Vircom’s managed Service provides a robust, extensible email security platform with a common, web-based management interface. Vircom has redundant data centers in North America with additional data centers opening in Europe in the first quarter of 2005. Processing more than 3 billion emails every week, Vircom 's manage service assures consistent, reliable 99.999 percent service availability, with no latency in delivering legitimate email messages.
Common Management Interface
Vircom provides a wide range of email applications - anti-spam, anti-virus, compliance and content policy filtering - all in one service, with a single integrated management console. Vircom delivers control and visibility throughout your entire enterprise email system, not just a single server or single geographic location. Real-time dashboard and reporting from a single online web console management interface provides control over email security configurations-from domains and user groups, to individual users. Through a common management interface, administrators can monitor all email flow and traffic conditions, request and view reports from anywhere, implement global policies or customize individual email server configurations.
Extensible Applications Platform
Vircom 's managed service provides a platform that enables enhancement of its services to allow easy addition of functionality, such as regulatory compliance and message encryption, without the need to turn to other vendor products or to deploy new management frameworks. Contrast this with point products, for example, that can only handle spam and therefore force you to look elsewhere for protection from other email threats.
Flexible Policy Framework
Vircom 's flexible policy framework goes beyond the "one size fits all" restrictions of other services to allow inbound and outbound email filtering and policy enforcement that suits the needs of different domains, user groups and even individual users. Vircom enables the enterprise to delegate access privileges for multiple administrators across many domains, as well as allowing the email administrator to configure email policy enforcement for inbound and outbound messages according to global, group, or individual user. User-specific quarantine areas allow for individual adjustments of spam sensitivity by category, approved and blocked sender lists, and a daily quarantine summary email.
Inbound & Outbound
Vircom’s managed service provides threat prevention, policy enforcement and compliance, and superior email management for both inbound and outbound email traffic. This enables you to not only stop email threats, but also to enforce email security policies and regulatory compliance as well as prevent the loss of proprietary intellectual property.
