FortiMail secure messaging appliance.Fortinet have enhanced its family of FortiMail secure messaging appliances with the announcement of FortiMail-2000, a new secure messaging appliance targeted at very large enterprises, universities and managed security service providers (MSSPs), and unveiling of FortiMail 2.2, a major new firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. release for its FortiMail systems. FortiMail systems include an antivirus detection engine for virus and spyware protection and complete email scanning. They integrate with Fortinets FortiGateT security appliances Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances. and FortiGuardT Antispam Service, which provides automatic updates to both FortiGate and FortiMail systems to reduce 'obvious spam' at the network perimeter. ForitiMail 2.2 firmwareware adds the following to FortiMail systems: *Enhanced Spam Detection: Includes the following email content inspection features that bring antispam detection accuracy up to 97 percent - Checksum A value used to ensure data are stored or transmitted without error. It is created by calculating the binary values in a block of data using some algorithm and storing the results with the data. Blocklist: Integrates with Fortinets FortiGuard Antispam Service, which inspects all content within an email, including attachments and graphics, and applies a checksum against the content to determine whether it is spam. - Creylist: Checks "reply to,' "from" and 'IP' headers for new email senders that FortiMail does not recognise and delays response to suspicious email servers to determine the legitimacy of the sender. - Heuristics heu·ris·tic adj. 1. Of or relating to a usually speculative formulation serving as a guide in the investigation or solution of a problem: : Includes more than 600 rules that are indexed by a heuristics filter to inspect and score all parts of an email for spam characteristics. - Spam URI Uri, in the Bible Uri (y  `rī), in the Bible.1 Father of Bezaleel (1.) 2 Father of Geber (2.) 3 Porter. Real-time Blocklist: Monitors Universal Resource identifim (URLs) that are embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. in emails as another content-based technique to detect spam. www.fortinet.com |
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