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22/03/2009

Private Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud Solutions

SPAMINA Email Firewall is a e-mail security solution based on a new private-cloud concept that provides centralised, comprehensive e-mail protection against any type of threat (spam, viruses, phishing, etc.) from your own infrastructure, enabling efficient and agile administration in any type of environment.

Ensuring system security is made more difficult by ever-increasing threats and their changing nature, meaning that e-mail protection is a strategic issue for companies and professionals.

Offering maximum availability in corporate e-mail and securing it against threats found in the environment is the goal of this e-mail firewall solution.

There are a number of possibilities when implementing SPAMINA Email Firewall, which must be studied before installing the product. The options are based on dedicated software appliances that have been certified by the major manufacturers (HP, IBM and SUN), although installations can also be done on virtual machines. These options can be configured as stand-alone, cluster or multi-layer modes, to cover the requirements of all kinds of organisations, providing a wide range of options for each organisation and each level of security, escalation and high-availability.

OPERATION AND FORMATS SPAMINA Email Firewall

SPAMINA is a technological partner of the main Appliance manufacturers: HP, IBM and SUN. Being an Official Partner attests to the validity of our product, installed in the hardware from one of these manufacturers, and its 100% guaranteed operation. SPAMINA provides a wide range of options in implementing the SPAMINA Email Firewall solution in the platform that best suits their technological requirements.

All Appliance models from our partners ensure optimum e-mail protection operation and enable multi-layer installations that offer various levels of filtering, providing different balancing and high-availability modes.

The solution is also available as a virtual mode, through the solutions offered by VMware and Citrix. These virtualization software systems simulate a physical system with the characteristics of a determined hardware. When SPAMINA Email Firewall is run in this virtualised environment, it provides a running environment that is similar to a physical server for all effective purposes.

By using virtualization technologies, all the features and performance of a server-based SPAMINA Email Firewall can be achieved, with all the benefits in terms of costs and resource control.

The High Availability option can be achieved by clustering the system and is ideal for critical environments, providing two Active-Active nodes.
The diagram shows e-mail filtering using SPAMINA Email Firewall:

FEATURES

Security

	Protection for incoming and outgoing mail.
	Perimeter virus scanner.
	Anti-phishing and anti-malware protection.
	Protection against directory attacks using delay and greylisting techniques.
	Anti-spam protection. Filtering modes: Automatic: technology based on open source systems, optimised by Spamina. It adapts to the user, maximising the efficiency of the anti-spam system and preventing false positives, without needing user intervention. Guaranteed: 100% spam-free mode, as it checks whether the sender is on a list. Otherwise, it asks the sender to interact with Spamina to validate their address.
	Complete back-up of incoming mail, depending on hardware capacity.
	Connection filters:

	IP reputation list.
	RBL: different black lists where IP addresses that generate spam globally are registered.
	SPF: protection against address forgery in e-mail sending.
	B/W: Global (by domain) and local (by user) black/white lists.

Sender filters:

	SenderDomVal (domain).
	Recipient CallOut (sender).

Heuristic, Bayesian and content filters (SpamAssassin and BogoFilter).
Pro-active system with continuously changing, remote dynamic updates, updating spam filters in real time.

E-mail firewall functions with usage rules and configuration definition.

Administration

	Multi-language web administration interface based on profiles (Optimised for Internet Explorer 7.0 or superior, Firefox 2.x/3.x and Google Chrome 1.0).
	Real-time user management.
	Secure access (SSL).
	Encoded traffic (TLS).
	E-mail traffic activity statistics and reports.
	Greater capacity for configuration; configure quarantine and mail back-up limits.
	Multi-domain protection
	Powerful rule engine for content and attachment filtering
	Customised logotypes, automatic messages and simple, manageable services
	Configurations applicable by company, domain and user.
	Fully updated manuals and online help.
	Report configuration for users and administrators.
	Total integration with LDAP (OpenLDAP, active directory and domain).
	Optional controlling of false NDR.
	Disclaimers by domain and company.

Platform

	Easy-to-use “plug & play” appliance
	High availability with full active-active clustering.
	Redundancy options (disk, power supply, etc.).
	Available for virtual environments (VMware and XenServer).

Compatibility

	Integration with any MTA.
	Integration with any existing firewall/virus scanner/anti-spam

Support and Monitoring

Soporte básico 10×5 telefónico y por email incluido en todos los productos.

Soporte Premium 24×7 telefónico opcional.

Soporte tecnológico de nuestros Partners del servicio en caso de incidencia.

Posibilidad de acceder a la monitorización del sistema (SNMP, NRPE).

BENEFITS

The different SPAMINA Email Firewall modes efficiently protect e-mail accounts and enable agile administration, even in critical environments:

“Private Cloud” Solution

	Dedicated platform.
	High availability with full active-active clustering.

	Redundancy options (disk, power supply, etc.).
	Greater capacity for configuration. Configure quarantine and mail back-up limits.

	E-mail firewall functions. Usage rules and configuration definition .
	Outgoing mail filtering.

	Multi-domain protection.
	Remote monitoring by the customer.

	SPAMINA Email Firewall solution with hosting in SPAMINA data centre.
	Technological support from our partners.
	Certified by SUN, HP and IBM.

“Virtual Private Cloud” Solution

	Benefits of the Private Cloud Mode solution.
	Flexibility and speed in including new resources for virtualised servers.

	Reduces space and consumption costs.
	Increases resource usage efficiency and flexibility, and therefore, reduces IT costs.

	Centralised, simple global administration.
	Manage resources as a group instead of in parts.

	Improved system cloning and copy processes.
	Better TCO and ROI.

	Reduces downtimes.
	Migrate virtual machines from one physical server to another in hot (without loss of service).
	Dynamic virtual machine balancing between physical servers in the resource pool, ensuring that each virtual machine is run on the most suitable physical server.
	Certified by VMware.
	Citrix Technology Member.

SPAMINA Email Firewall is an Aegis Security product
Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, VMware and Citrix are registered trademarks.