Security
The numerous email threats that are now emerging are as broad as the range of required measures to ensure email protection. It is not just the technical side that requires attention – organizational and legal aspects have become much more significant. Various factors affect the level of protection required by email correspondence:
- How can undesirable content, such as spam and viruses, be blocked?
- How can companies comply with formal requirements placed on a company-wide basis?
- How can data protection be guaranteed when sending confidential information?
These and many other questions need to be considered when looking at the overall email security picture. It is also important to maintain firm control of both incoming as well as outgoing email traffic. Stand-alone solutions, covering only some of these aspects ultimately fail to provide the necessary level of security. The only way to make sure that your emails will remain confidential and comply with the legal requirements is to have a central process from a single server-side interface. This process should cover all aspects of email communication and at the same time make life easier for the user.
The Problem:
You need to send critical information over the Internet by email, while maintaining confidentiality. Data security, data integrity, statutory data protection standards and protection from commercial espionage require the encryption of all electronic communications through the Internet. But even encrypted or signed emails are potential risks since they may contain viruses and other undesirable content. You need automatic, user-transparent support for the leading encryption standards.
The Solution:
iQ.Suite offers user-transparent centralized encryption to set up safe email communication from server to server, from endpoint to server, and from server to endpoint with minimal administrative effort. iQ.Suite can be incorporated into any key management and public key infrastructure (PKI).With its flexible configuration options, PGP and S/MIME are supported in parallel operation without any effort required on the part of the user. The encryption method is automatically selected based upon your company policies.
iQ.Suite also checks email file contents and attachments, even in encrypted and signed emails, working in combination with one or multiple antivirus applications to guarantee comprehensive content security at all times.
The Problem:
You need to protect your email users and infrastructure against the effects of spam and to verify that your email communications are focused on business requirements. This includes the prevention of pornographic and offensive content from being disseminated within your company and the unauthorized transmission of confidential information to protect your intellectual property.
The Solution:
iQ.Suite offers several analysis methods for a 100%detection rate, ensuring that undesirable communications are proactively deleted before they ever reach a users desktop:
- Automated white and black lists ensure that business-relevant emails are detected and delivered
- Content analysis combined with sender/recipient lists, as well as automated white and black lists, result in time savings and protection against abuse
- Prevention of unmonitored forwarding of emails to private mailboxes at external service providers
- Optimal protection against mail flooding attacks
- Integrated image analysis with Xblock detects prohibited image attachments in real time, and prevents them from being disseminated via email
Flexible notification of blocked messages to administration or mail recipients or senders
iQ.Suite provides protection from misuse of email and databases, checking for forbidden, undesirable or confidential content according to corporate policies, then preventing the sending of confidential information. Automatic organization, context-based storage, establishment of flexible delivery and distribution mechanisms, and automated email indexing for archiving are examples of the content-sensitive operations that can be implemented with iQ.Suite.
The Problem:
You want to make sure that you have the best protection from viruses available and are able to filter out file attachments, even in encrypted emails. New types of viruses and other attacks threaten your infrastructure every day, while dangerous and undesirable file attachment formats decimate resources and increase costs.
The Solution:
iQ.Suite allows an email to be scanned in serial by multiple antivirus applications like Symantec, McAfee, avast!, and Sophos, while still on the server for ultimate virus security. Additionally, iQ.Suite has a graduated security concept for dealing with more than 200 data formats (e.g. .exe, .vbs, .mp3, .jpg, .avi) for further pre-emptive protection. Fingerprint technology is used to safely detect all file types, even in archives.
Your policies determine which emails and file types are classified as potentially dangerous and need to be filtered. Even encrypted viruses and file attachments have no chance in your email environment. Scanning all messages and attachments while still on the server, iQ.Suite reliably removes all viruses and other potentially harmful attachments and places them in quarantine.
The Problem:
You need to make sure the transmission of sensitive or confidential information via email is reviewed and can be safely prevented, so confidential information never leaves your company by email without having first been approved by a compliance officer.
The Solution:
iQ.Suite can scan suspect emails for company policy compliance proactively before the email is actually sent to any third party. Emails being checked are stopped and placed in “park” mode. Final transmission occurs only after the email is released by an authorized person. For critical emails, senders can be notified about any delay in the approval process.
