Clearswift can make your organizations email system highly effective, productive and fully resilient with our content-aware email gateway. Anti-spam and anti-malware deals with the obvious network based threats, while our content-aware MIMEsweeper policy and content inspection engine checks and uncovers the true nature of the messages and attachments flowing in and out.

Clearswift Email Appliance defines powerful, flexible and intelligent email policies that allow you exchange information preventing:

• Sensitive data losses.
• Breaches of human resources policies.
• Regulatory and legal compliance breaches.
• Brand reputation damage.
  

Features and  Benefits

Policy

• Default policy:                     Out of the box policies against hygiene and data loss threats.
  
  
• Flexible policies:                   Define advanced policies to control how email is shared, stored and distributed. Policies linked 
                                               with directory servers to reduce management overhead
  
  
• Centralized control:              Auto-updating of policies to multiple Clearswift appliances for consistency and time saving.
  
  
• Policy-based routing:            Automated policy-based disposal to encryption or archiving.

Hygiene

• Bi-directional malware scanning:         Stops known and unknown malware infection with a built Kaspersky Anti-virus
  
  
• TRUSTmanager™ :                             Sender reputation and connectivity filter rejects up to 80% of spam.
  
  
• SpamLogic™ :                                     Multi-engine anti-spam to provide at least 99.5% spam detection.
  
  
• ThreatLab™ :                                     LIVE Proactive threat mitigation patching against new digital attacks.

Content inspection

• True binary file-type controls:               Accurate identification of attachments to detect unrecognized file types.
  
  
• Content-aware content inspection:     Policy control over all message content.
  
  
•  Lexical and Regular expressions:        Built-in and custom detection of common business terms including payment card industry (PCI), 
                                                               personally identifiable information (PII) and compliance terms.
   
  
• Dictionaries supplied:                            Auto-updating managed lists for mutli-language profanity and editable compliance dictionaries 
                                                               (Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),
                                                               Securities and Equities Commission (SEC), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)).

Management and reporting

• Web based interface:                                                                 No requirement to learn Linux
  
  
• Consistent user interface with other Clearswift products:        Reduce training expenses if you have a Clearswift Web Appliance as the
                                                                                                     UI shares a common look and feel
  
  
• Pre-defined reports:                                                                   Easy to modify, run and share reports with interactive drilldowns.
  
  
• Customizable scheduled reporting:                                            Allows you to create once, run and distribute as scheduled.
  
  
• Active directory (AD) and LDAP integration:                              User based policy controls for flexible policy enforcement.
  
  
• Auto-security updating:                                                              Maintains email security levels while reducing administration time.
  
  
• Back-up and restore:                                                                 Scheduled and immediate back-ups of policy, data and logs for auditing purposes, 
                                                                                                     with full or partial restoration.
  
  
• Multi-appliance reporting:                                                          Consolidated view of user activity for easier analysis and sharing of security and 
                                                                                                     management data.
  
  
• Multi-appliance quarantine:                                                       Consolidated management of quarantine areas across a distributed deployment
  
  
• Multi-appliance message tracking:                                            Run message tracking queries from any node in your configuration
  
  
• Personal message manager - user quarantine:                         Delegation of spam to users reducing administration and speeding up email delivery.
  
  
• SNMP, SMTP and SMS (with service) alerting:                          Allows lights-out datacenter deployment.
  

Deployment

• Dell Appliance:                                                                                    Backed by worldwide field service agents to repair at your site, in the unlikely event of
                                                                                                             hardware faults
  
  
• Hardened Linux operating system (OS):                                            Independantly Penetration tested and hardened by default.
  
  
• ‘Soft’ appliance option:                                                                       Allows you to choose the most appropriate alternative hardware platform from HP,
                                                                                                             IBM and Dell.
  
   
• VMware ESX/ESXi  and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization support:      Enables security and server consolidation in a choice of virtualization environments; ideal 
                                                                                                             for both production and disaster recovery deployments