GFI Software, an infrastructure provider for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), has launched two hosted email security and continuity offerings.
According to GFI Software, the Max MailProtection, a cloud-based email security offering provides technology to protect organisations from spam and viruses and enables email continuity. The Max MailEdge is a hosted frontline email filtering and continuity offering for organisations that require an additional layer of security before email reaches their mail server.
The Max MailProtection uses a multi-layered approach to spam filtering to stop spam, viruses, and other email threats before they reach the network or mail server. Incoming email is redirected to the service’s network and application architecture, which processes messages in real-time through both spam filtering techniques and approaches to message analysis including authenticity checks, message fingerprinting, heuristic rule sets, URI databases, message source analysis, and whitelists and blacklists, GFI said.
The Max MailEdge is designed to be used only in combination with an existing on-premise software or hardware anti-spam/anti-virus offering. It allows customers to maintain their existing set-up and blocks up to 90% of all spam emails and email threats through its IP reputation filters, connection throttling, directory harvesting protection, and optional greylisting, the company claims.
Walter Scott, CEO of GFI, said: “With GFI Max MailProtection and GFI Max MailEdge, we are now in a position to give customers a choice between an on-premise or hosted solution or a mix of both depending on their infrastructure needs at the time. GFI’s hybrid approach removes the dilemma that many SMBs face when deciding which delivery model is best because it gives them the ability to choose the solution they need to protect their network, email server or manage their archives irrespective of whether it is in the cloud or on premise.”
