SonicWALL Email Security 8300

Overview:

High-Performance, Highly Scalable E-mail Security

Status quo vendors cannot keep up with today’s increasing volumes of sophisticated e-mail attacks, stricter new compliance regulations and dynamic business environments. Enterprises demand powerful solutions that reduce costs and complexity.

Offering outstanding performance value, SonicWALL® E-Class Email Security delivers highly effective, responsive protection that streamlines administrative overhead. Available as appliances or software, the SonicWALL E-Class Email Security solutions, including the Email Security Appliance (ESA) ES6000 and ES8300 or E-Class Email Security Software, provide self-running, self-updating, future-proofed security. Scanning both inbound and outbound traffic, E-Class Email Security boosts productivity by stopping spam, viruses and phishing; and supports regulatory compliance by blocking leaks of confidential data.

SonicWALL E-Class is a line of premium, enterprise-class solutions offering outstanding protection and high-performance protection while delivering elegant simplicity and unparalleled value. The E-Class portfolio of products and services offers a comprehensive line of e-mail protection, network security and secure remote access solutions.

• Inbound and outbound e-mail threat management
• Highly available and scalable Split Mode architecture
• Regulatory compliance framework
• E-mail policy management
• Advanced Reputation Management
• Seamless multi-LDAP integration
• Robust reporting
• SonicWALL GRID Anti-Virus™
• DHA, Dos, and zombie attack protection
• Advanced end-user controls
• Rapid installation and ease-of-management

Features & Benefits:

• Inbound and outbound e-mail threat management monitors content passing bi-directionally through the SMTP gateway. Utilizing award-winning anti-spam, anti-phishing and advanced anti-virus technologies, SonicWALL stops inbound e-mail threats before they invade the network. Outbound e-mail and attachments are inspected and properly blocked or routed to prevent confidential information leaks.
• Highly available and scalable Split Mode architecture let businesses flexibly mix and centrally manage SonicWALL E-Class software and appliances to effectively meet their needs, freeing e-mail administrators from the mandated limitations of competing vendors. SonicWALL offers a truly scalable, high availability, e-mail protection solution for archiving, outsourcing, managed services, mergers, acquisitions and expansion into globally distributed environments.
• Regulatory compliance framework helps organizations become compliant by automating requirements set forth by laws such as HIPAA, SOX and GLBA. SonicWALL E-Class Email Security intelligently identifies e-mail that violates compliance policies; monitors and reports the problem; and uses policy-based routing to send mail to archiving and encryption technologies.*
• E-mail policy management enables IT to enforce organizational policies such as preventing the dissemination of inappropriate content, protecting confidential information, adding e-mail disclaimers or blocking distribution of executables.
• Advanced Reputation Management combines IP Reputation plus SonicWALL’s GRIDprints to reject up to 80% of known junk e-mail at the connection stage with any remaining junk e-mail being removed in the Advanced Content Management stage. Advanced Reputation Management not only improves overall system scalability and performance but unlike other vendor’s systems all connections are logged, offering greater peace of mind.
• Seamless multi-LDAP integration ensures that SonicWALL E-Class Email Security solutions automatically synchronize with multiple LDAP servers to automatically manage e-mail addresses, accounts and user groups.
• Robust reporting provides easily customizable, system-wide and granular reporting, including information on attack types, solution effectiveness and built-in performance monitoring. For system deployed in Split Mode, reporting and monitoring is completely centralized for all systems, saving valuable time and simplifying overall system management.
• SonicWALL GRID Anti-Virus™ leverages SonicWALL’s anti-virus and anti-spyware technology to deliver anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. SonicWALL also offers additional layers of protection with signature update subscriptions from McAfee™ and Kaspersky Lab™.*
• DHA, Dos, and zombie attack* protection starts with powerful connection management capabilities to defer, throttle or block invalid connections before they reach your system. When combined with SonicWALL’s anti-spam, anti- phishing and anti-virus capabilities these capabilities establish a complete solution for stopping all types of e-mail threats.
• Advanced end-user controls enable administrators to give end-users greater control over their own spam management, allowed and blocked lists, spam aggressiveness, and account delegation. Using the downloadable Junk Button for Outlook® plug-in, end-users may actively respond to junk e-mail that inadvertently arrives in their inbox. The administrator defines all end-user controls, and may assign them by user, group or function.
• Rapid Installation and ease-of-management drastically reduces the burden on IT departments to implement and manage a comprehensive e-mail security solution. Judgment Details provides insight into message judgment to ease troubleshooting and prevent legitimate e-mail from being junked.

*Additional subscription service required.

SonicWALL Email Security Deployments:

The highly flexible architecture of SonicWALL Email Security (SES) enables deployments in organizations that require a highly scalable, redundant and distributed e-mail protection solution that can be centrally managed.SES can be deployed in either all-in-one or split mode. In split mode a system can be a remote analyzer or a control center. A typical split-mode setup is one or more remote analyzers connected to a control center: The remote analyzer receives e-mail from one or more domains and applies connection management, e-mail filtering (anti-spam, anti-phishing and anti-virus) and advanced policy techniques to deliver good e-mail to the downstream e-mail server. The control center centrally manages all remote analyzers and collects and stores junk e-mail from the remote analyzers. Centralized management includes reporting, and monitoring of all related systems. This paradigm allows SonicWALL Email Security to adapt its solution to protect both inbound and outbound e-mail for any organization in a cost-effective, comprehensive manner.

Multi-Domain, Central Control

SonicWALL Email Security centralizes management of multiple e-mail domains. Typically used in medical consortiums, insurance companies, franchises, multi-brand/multi-division companies

Benefits:

• Easy-to-use centralized management of multiple domains
• Apply corporate (centralized) e-mail policies to everyone and/or apply policies per domain/group/user
• Centralized per-domain reporting
• Centralized control over outbound e-mail to apply policy/routing rules per domain or on a corporate-wide basis

Scalable and Redundant

A centrally managed e-mail security system that is highly scalable, can utilize multiple types of platforms (appliances and software) and has failover built into the architecture as well as the hardware. Typically used in medium and large enterprises, organizations with high uptime requirements for e-mail security, mixed platform environments or organizations with a requirement to store e-mail on SAN (Storage Area Network)

Benefits:

• Any remote analyzer can failover to any other remote analyzer–ensuring mail-flow continues
• Having primary and secondary control centers provides complete redundancy
• Storing e-mail, etc., on corporate SAN centralizes data storage and simplifies backup procedures
• Allowing mixed platforms to be centrally controlled reduces management overhead
• Adding a remote analyzer easily scales the system or extends deployment to other locations as desired

Managed Service Provider

A Managed Service Provider (MSP) can provide e-mail filtering services for their clients and possibly e-mail server services as well. The SonicWALL Email Security solution is flexible enough to allow for multiple domains that can be centrally managed by the MSP, but still allows a given client to have their own users, policy rules, Junk Boxes and more, all under the control of the MSP.

Benefits:

• Centralized management of multiple domains to remove junk e-mail for everyone
• Centralized e-mail policies for everyone and/or client policies per domain/group/user
• Centralized reporting, with per-domain reporting
• Centralized control over outbound e-mail can be used for some or all of the clients, and policy/ routing can be applied on per-domain basis
• Allows e-mail servers and LDAP servers to reside with the customer or with the MSP or any in combination
• Flexible expansion allows the MSP to start with a single system and scale as needed to the highly scalable, failover-enabled, split-mode architecture

Multi-Location, Central Control

For distributed organizations, the optimal location for processing e-mail—centralized versus local—is critical: too centralized, and valuable IT time is wasted; too local, and corporate security can be compromised. The flexible SonicWALL Email Security architecture enables a solution that fits the unique needs of any distributed organization. Typically used in companies with multiple locations, companies with recently added locations, such as through an acquisition or franchises that centralize the e-mail management of their corporate-owned or franchised operations

Benefits:

• Localized processing of e-mail to remove junk and deliver good e-mail, reducing network traffic
• Centralized management of multiple locations, including policy enforcement, reporting and monitoring
• Centralized control over outbound e-mail to apply policy/ routing rules per domain, per location or on a corporate wide basis
• Clustering of remote analyzers allows for failover from location to location

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Specifications:

Documentation:

 SonicWALL E-Class Email Security Datasheet (.PDF)