Sunbelt Software announces third-generation "all-in-one" messaging security.

Sunbelt Software have announced the release of its new third-generation enterprise messaging security solution, Sunbelt Messaging NinjaD. Built for Microsoft Exchange, the product delivers best-of-breed anti-virus, anti-spam and anti-phishing along with the most powerful attachment filtering available, wrapped in a plug-in framework that allows additional security features to be added easily. Significantly, Sunbelt is offering the attachment filtering component of Ninja at no charge to all organisations for a limited time.

As Ninja's plug-in architecture was designed with flexibility and extendibility in mind, Ninja's security functionality will broaden in the future to include automatic disclaimers, content filtering, content auditing, archiving and more.

"Sunbelt Messaging Ninja is a true third-generation mail security platform that provides a multi-layered, policy-based approach to protecting enterprises against email security threats. It is an extraordinarily powerful, robust security solution, providing comprehensive protection against all email-borne threats," said Alex Eckelberry, president at Sunbelt Software. "We started work on Ninja over two years ago, looking at security from a ground-up perspective of 'what is relevant and necessary today'. The result is a product that we believe will change the messaging landscape and reports from beta testers confirm the excitement behind this release."

Ninja has been extensively field-tested and the results from customer sites have been overwhelmingly positive. "Since upgrading to and installing Sunbelt's Messaging Ninja, RadioFrame Networks has experienced a severe drop in spam and malicious emails while still maintaining low false-positives," said Christopher Smith, Information Systems Manager for RadioFrame Networks. "Once again, Sunbelt Software has outdone themselves with a stellar product. With the ease of management, automatic RBL and SPF policies, along with integrated anti-virus, no company should be without a product such as Ninja."

Analysts agree that Ninja's all-in-one approach is compelling for enterprise customers: "Ninja's advantage is that it provides integrated anti-spam, anti-virus and attachment protection with an extendable plug-in architecture. This provides organisations with a single solution to combat today's messaging threats while extending email security functionality to protect against new messaging threats in the future," says Michael Osterman, principal at Osterman Research. "Sunbelt's Messaging Ninja provides customers with the ability to protect against spam, viruses and dangerous attachments through one integrated interface that combines best-of-breed plug-ins for a very complete way to manage email security. "against spam, viruses and dangerous attachments through one integrated interface that combines best-of-breed plug-ins for a very complete way to manage email security." "We're seeing a shift from standalone anti-spam and anti-virus products to solutions that incorporate more powerful, comprehensive protection against a wider array of messaging security threats," said Laura DiDio, Research Fellow at Yankee Group, a Boston-based consultancy. "Corporate IT departments are extremely cost conscious. A single solution lowers TCO and reduces the time it takes to apply and administer multiple solutions. Sunbelt's Messaging Ninja delivers this 'all-in-one' solution with excellent technical support at an affordable price point," DiDio added.

Policy-based plug-in framework

Using Ninja's plug-in architecture, administrators can create custom policies for Active Directory users or groups and separate policy templates can be created for different groups or individuals, fine-tuning each policy to suit different constituent needs.

SMARTD Attachment Filtering

Unlike legacy security products that filter at the gateway, Ninja's Suspicious Mail Attachment Removal TechnologyD(SMART) is the first policy-based attachment filter that filters all attachments based on email direction inbound, outbound or within the organisation. Additionally, it actually looks inside many types of files to determine their true identity, as opposed to simply relying on file extensions. For a limited time, Sunbelt is offering Ninja's SMART attachment filtering for free to all organisations, for free to all organisations.

Server-based dual-engine anti-virus

Ninja uses multiple industrial strength anti-virus engines, Authentium and BitDefender, to scan inbound and outbound email. This layered approach is significantly more effective than the common practice of relying on one vendor's anti-virus engine.

Server-based dual-engine anti-spam

For its anti-spam capabilities, Ninja uses two scanning engines: Cloud mark's D and Sunbelt's, providing users with both a heuristic and signature-based approach. Spam can be managed in a variety of ways: deleted, centrally quarantined, tagged with a Subject line identification, or sent to a custom folder in the end-user's Exchange mailbox. In addition, users can allow or block specific senders without any special desktop software required.

Support for Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and RBLs

With the increasing number of phishing attacks, identifying legitimate email addresses from spoofed addresses is important. SPF helps determine if emails are spoofed, testing whether a specific email originated from its claimed domain. Ninja also supports the administrators choice of Real Time Blackholes (RBLs) as an added layer of spam protection. Powerful reporting options for all plug-ins Ninja delivers a broad range of pre-defined reports with the ability to customise reports based on individual needs. The database-driven reporting engine can generate information at the system, group, and/or user level.

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