Lotus Protector for Mail Security

Content protection for social business

The IBM® Lotus® Protector for Mail Security software appliance extends data protection and compliance across your social business platform. It is a complete collaboration security solution, providing powerful content filtering for your email systems, and virus protection for your IBM Connections and IBM Lotus Quickr® for WebSphere Portal environments. And it provides users with personalized control of email right within the inbox.

• By eliminating spam from our inboxes, IBM Lotus Protector gives our staff more time to focus on genuine business communications." - Roddy Fraser, Operations Director, Summit Healthcare
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• Extend data protection and compliance by easily weaving content protection across your social business platform. It is a complete collaboration security solution.

• Reduce training costs and minimize the expense of evaluating and discarding unwanted content by giving users personal control over the content they receive right within the Lotus Notes inbox.

• Readily respond to evolving Internet-based threats and new regulatory policies as they are formulated.

• Optimize messaging throughput with content filtering placed on the edge of the network instead directly on mail servers.

• Ensure optimal IT performance through a reduction in spam and viruses that are transported through the network.

• Meet tight IT budgets with advanced technology that helps minimize the physical resources required to analyze and process content.

• Maintain control over sensitive business and personal data that can be inadvertently sent to customers and partners via email.

• Simplify software contract management by consolidating your IBM Social Business platform and content protection under a single vendor.

• Complete collaboration security solution, providing content filtering for Lotus Notes and Domino, Microsoft Exchange, and mixed email environments, as well as virus protection for Lotus Quickr for WebSphere Portal and IBM Connections deployments.

• Independently shown to block 99%+ of spam by Virus Bulletin. ²

• Supports data protection initiatives (PCI, HIPAA, SOX, EU Data Protection Act, Japanese, Australian, and international data privacy regulations).

• Approximately 500% increase in throughput performance over V2.1. Approximately 2000% hardware price performance increase over V2.1¹.

• Internet Protocol (IP) layer filtering that discards emails sent from IP addresses that are virtually certain to be spam, based on a number of factors that comprise the "reputation" of the senders' IP address.

• Zero level analysis (ZLA) technology, innovated by IBM, helps optimize throughput and content filter efficiency. The ZLA module inspects streaming email in real time, minimizing the expensive task of writing content to disk, and discarding it at any point if it is determined to be spam.

• Content filtering powered by IBM X-Force® research and development team vulnerability-based research. Updates from the IBM ISS Global Data Center are delivered many times per day to help you respond to changing spam tactics and threats.

• Highly customizable, includes more than 20 analysis modules for custom scanning of email at many different levels to help meet legal, regulatory, and business policy compliance requirements - helping to control content that leaves your network.

• Helps keep offensive and personal content out of email through predefined keyword searches and individual configurable keyword searches.

• Helps protect against phishing attempts with an analysis module that helps guard employees against email that targets their personal information.

• Helps detect malicious URLs through a URL filter module supported by a large URL filter database.

• Inspects email attachments with a behavioral virus protection system that takes preemptive action against suspicious code even before it is publically known.

• Supports global business scope with Unicode analysis, allowing for analysis of content in a wide variety of character sets, including double-byte characters.

• Integration with Lotus Notes 8.5.1 allows users to easily block unwanted content from selected senders, and managed blocked spam right within the inbox.

• Stand-alone, Web-based local management interface for easy access to security and anti-spam policies.

• Easily create rules-based policies to enable custom spam filtering, defining who (sender/recipient), and (time frame), and which analysis modules to use, and one of more than 10 actions to take.

• Clustering option for a robust scalability that requires no separate management console, easily allowing for the management of multiple servers through one appliance.

• Standard, centralized reports available either on demand or according to a defined schedule help give valuable insights into the latest spam trends causing the biggest challenge to the email infrastructure.

• Optional automatic encryption of email via standards-based TLS protocol, performed at the edge of the network.

• Helps save valuable bandwidth with recipient verification technology that confirms the existence of an email address at the simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) connection.

• Helps protect against 'zero-day' attacks, including denial-of-service and directory harvest attacks.

• English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese - Traditional, Chinese - Simplified

• English, French, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Italian, Japanese,Korean, Chinese - Traditional, Chinese - Simplified, Thai, Catalan, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Nynorsk, Dutch, Finnish, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish, Slovenian, Slovakian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Hungarian

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