Symantec has introduced new Messaging Gateway 9.5, powered by Brightmail, which provides messaging security capabilities with personalised protection against unwanted email.
The new offering allows organisations to customise their definition of unwanted email to personalise the protection they receive, meeting the varied demands of their individual environments.
In addition, the offering allows organisations to block more unwanted email with new controls to better define acceptable inbound communications, said the company.
The Messaging Gateway includes new handling for marketing email and newsletters and emails containing suspicious URLs, such as shortened URLs where the target has been obfuscated.
Further, the Messaging Gateway extends its integration capabilities with Symantec Data Loss Prevention, and allows customers a simple add-on option for its Data Loss Prevention, to provide a robust messaging security and data loss prevention offering from one vendor.
The Messaging Gateway also integrates with Symantec Messaging Encryption Gateway Edition, to give customers the choice of deploying on-premise email encryption or Symantec Content Encryption, a hosted encryption service powered by Symantec.cloud.
The company said that the new offering shares the same entitlement as the physical appliance, can be deployed in hybrid physical and virtual configurations to provide organisations with flexible deployment options and the ability to dynamically scale messaging security resources against rapidly fluctuating email volumes cost effectively.
The new Messaging Gateway 9.5 is available now while the existing Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 customers with a valid maintenance contract are entitled to perform a simple upgrade to Messaging Gateway 9.5 at no additional cost.
Symantec product management senior director Blake McConnell said they help companies of all sizes maintain the integrity of their sensitive information.
"Symantec Messaging Gateway keeps unwanted email out while protecting an organisation’s outgoing communications. With the evolution in targeted attacks, such as advanced persistent threats, protecting proprietary business information is more important than ever," McConnell said.
