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ScanMail Suite for Microsoft Exchange

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ScanMail Suite for Microsoft Exchange

ScanMail™ Suite for Microsoft® Exchange™ not only stops traditional threats with correlated intelligence from Trend Micro Smart Protection Network and leading content security engines, but also identifies highly targeted email attacks by using exploit detection and sandboxing as part of the Trend Micro Custom Defence Solution. According to Osterman Research in a comparative research paper (PDF), time reducing features like Search and Destroy, central management, template based DLP, and role-based access enable ScanMail to have the lowest administration overhead and TCO, while high performance scan engines make ScanMail 57% faster than Microsoft Forefront, reports Principled Technologies in an independent test (PDF).

Superior protection. Lower administration.

  • Customizes protection against highly targeted attacks
  • Blocks phishing emails with malware or bad web links
  • Prevents data loss and simplifies compliance
  • Cuts IT management in half

Leading malware and spam protection

ScanMail blocks targeted attacks, as well as spam, phishing, and malware with global threat intelligence from Trend Micro Smart Protection Network. It simplifies compliance initiatives with Data Loss Prevention and can discover sensitive data in the mail store.

Protection from targeted attacks

New targeted attack protections built into to ScanMail and enhanced with Deep Discovery Advisor use enhanced web reputation, document exploit detection, sandbox execution analysis, and custom local threat intelligence to provide comprehensive security from spear phishing attacks associated with APTs and other targeted threats.

  • Detects known and unknown exploits in PDF, MS Office and other documents
  • Performs malware execution analysis and provides custom threat intelligence and adaptive security updates via optional Deep Discovery Advisor integration
  • Stop threats from entering your environment with immediate protection based on global threat intelligence from Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network cloud-based security

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Unique Reputation Technology to block spam, phishing and malware

Powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network with correlated global threat intelligence, ScanMail Suite stops spam, phishing and targeted attacks as follows:

  • Uses big data analytics and predictive technology to correlate file, web, and email reputation data in the cloud for immediate protection from emerging threats
  • Checks for malicious links within both the email body and attachments to block phishing attacks via enhanced web reputation
  • Drops up to 85 percent of all incoming email using email sender reputation to free  network resources
  • Integrates with Microsoft Outlook junk email folder
  • Stops more spam than other security solutions according to independent tests

Read spam report (PDF)

Data Loss Prevention

When you use ScanMail Suite with Data Loss Prevention (DLP), you have greater visibility and enforcement to support data privacy and compliance policies. With optional Data Loss Prevention, ScanMail Suite:

  • Identifies sensitive data throughout your mail store and provides control for outgoing or internal email
  • Accelerates setup and improves accuracy with 100+ compliance templates
  • Enables granular Active Directory-based policy enforcement
  • Enables compliance personnel to centrally manage DLP policies and violations across other Trend Micro products from endpoint to gateway with Trend Micro Control Manager

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The most comprehensive protection from spam to APTs

ScanMail Suite offers the most comprehensive protection, including protection from advanced persistent threats that target your data and environment. 

  • Blocks spear phishing and other targeted attacks before they reach their intended target using enhanced web reputation, document exploit detection, and optional sandbox analysis
  • Delivers Trend Micro’s unique web threat protection to block phishing emails with malicious URLs
  • Protects the privacy of outbound communications and discovers violations in the mail store with easy-to-use compliance templates and central management via optional Data Loss Prevention
  • Identifies new threats with global threat intelligence correlated with big data analytics

Faster performance

  • Speeds up throughput up to 57% faster than Microsoft
  • Uses 10x less memory with our SmartScan technology
  • Optimized for Exchange with native 64-bit support

See independent test (PDF)

Lower administration

  • Performs targeted searches through the Exchange mail store to enable administrators to quickly respond to requests find, trace, and destroy specific sensitive messages via the Search and Destroy feature
  • Cuts admin time in half compared to Microsoft Forefront
  • Speeds up compliance audits with detailed logging and reporting
  • Features management reducing capabilities, such as central server management, role-based access, Active Directory integration, and SCOM support

Read analyst report (PDF)


You need a custom defence to thwart a targeted attack

Trend Micro messaging security products provide protection against targeted attacks with enhanced web reputation, a new detection engine, and new threat analysis appliance to block highly targeted email attacks by using exploit detection and sandboxing. As a component of the Trend Micro Custom Defence Solution, the integration of these components provides a custom defence that enables you to detect, analyze, adapt and respond to targeted attacks. The following defenses are found in:

Enhanced Web Reputation

  • Web reputation is powered by the big data analytics and predictive technology of Smart Protection Network global threat intelligence
  • SmartScan technology scans URLs embedded in emails and attachments and blocks URLs leading to malicious sites

Advanced Threat Scan Engine

  • Detects advanced malware in PDF, MS Office, and other documents using static and heuristic logic to detect and examine abnormalities in addition to known and zero-day exploits
  • Scans the Exchange mail store for targeted threats that may have passed through before protection was available
  • Quarantines suspicious attachments for automatic sandbox execution analysis to occur in-line without impacting the delivery of majority of messages (requires integration with optional Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery Advisor)

Deep Discovery Advisor, part of the Trend Micro Custom Defence Solution
ScanMail with Deep Discovery Advisor Integration:

  • Provides automatic in-depth simulation and analysis of potentially malicious attachments including executables and common office documents in a secure sandbox environment
  • Allows customers to create and analyze multiple fully custom target images that precisely match their host environments
  • Analyzes logs of Trend Micro products and third-party solutions combined with Trend Micro threat intelligence. In-depth insights support risk-based incident assessment, containment and remediation
  • Issues custom security updates for adaptive protection and remediation by ScanMail, Trend Micro products, and third-party security layers


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Memory Disk space Browser Web server

1GB RAM, 2GB RAM recommended (Exclusively for ScanMail)

2GB free disk space

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 (Compatibility view is suggested)
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or later
  • MSXML
  • MSXML 4.0 SP2 or above

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 or 7.0

 

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE

 

Processor

Operating system

Mail server

Web browser

Microsoft Exchange 2010

  • x64 architecture-based processor that supports Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T)
  • x64 architecture-based computer with AMD 64-bit processor that supports AMD64 platform
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) 2011

 

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with Service Pack 1 or 2
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

 

  • Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5
  • Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0

 

Microsoft Exchange 2007

  • x64 architecture-based processor that supports Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T)
  • x64 architecture-based computer with AMD 64-bit processor that supports AMD64 platform
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (64 bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 (64 bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 with Service Pack 2 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (64-bit)

 

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, 2 or 3

 

Microsoft Exchange 2003

  • Intel Pentium II 266 MHz or higher processor (Intel Pentium or compatible 733MHz processor recommended)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (32-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 with Service Pack 2 (32-bit)
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack 2

 


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