GFI MailEssentials Online
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Effective, secure and reliable hosted email security
and continuity solution
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Comprehensive email security, your way
GFI Email Security product line includes:
» ONLINE
□ GFI MailEssentials® Online (Anti-spam and email security)
» ON PREMISE:
□ GFI MailEssentials® (Anti-spam and/or email security)
Each solution is designed from the ground up to be robust
and easy to manage
» Benefit from ultimate flexibility in deployment
» Compliments other GFI on-premise software
» Or any combination of these
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GFI MailEssentials Online – Overview
GFI MailEssentials Online is a hosted email security solution
that offers:
» Inbound email filtering
» Outbound email filtering
» Email continuity
» Edge-based network defense
The service is designed to be highly accurate, cost-effective
and easy to use
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About the service
Primary component of service is spam and virus protection
» Industry-leading technology detects a high percentage of junk mail
» Inbound filtering activated by a simple DNS change
□ Within minutes an organization can be protected from spam, viruses
and other incoming email threats
» Individual users can easily review detected spam messages
□ Hosted web-based quarantine
□ Daily spam/virus digest reports by email
» Outbound filtering is similarly easy to implement
□ Notification to administrators of any spammers or virus-infected
workstations on their network attempting to send outbound junk mail
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Inbound mail filtering
Highly accurate detection of spam, viruses and email threats
» Adaptive system blocks emerging junk mail
□ Historical examples include image spam and PDF spam
□ Zero-hour virus protection
» Multi-layered analysis to prevent false positives
» Language-neutral tests to detect junk email regardless of language
Efficient initial and ongoing management
» Inbound filtering activated by a simple DNS change
□ An organization can be protected within minutes
» Simple web-based control panel for management
» Automated email address updates via LDAP synchronization
» Message logging and search allows customers to easily track
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a message
Fine-grained control over spam filtering, or just set it and forget it
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More on inbound mail filtering
Little or no administrator assistance required
» Hosted web-based quarantine (shown below) and daily spam/virus
digest reports allow for simple self-service by individual users
Incoming junk mail can be kept
completely off your network and
stored in a hosted quarantine that
is accessible to users at any time.
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Outbound Mail Filtering
Optional component of GFI MailEssentials Online service is outbound
spam and virus filtering
Simple set-up
» Customer mail server is configured to send outbound messages
through the GFI MailEssentials Online service, which acts
as an outbound relay
Benefits of outbound filtering
» Filtering blocks outbound spam or viruses
□ Protects the company’s reputation
□ Prevents blacklisting and improves ability to deliver valid email
» Notification to administrators of any virus-infected workstations on
their network attempting to send outbound junk mail
» Message logging and search allows tracking of outbound messages
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Email continuity
Integrated message queuing
» All inbound messages are automatically queued if the company’s
mail server is unreachable
» Typical scenarios include problems with mail server,
network issues, planned server upgrades and other outages
» No bounce messages are generated when an outage occurs
On-demand mail service
» Users have access to all queued messages, and can respond
to those messages, via a fully functional webmail in the
control panel during any outage
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GFI MailEssentials Online technology
Advanced software architecture
» Third-generation software designed for high capacity to manage
rapidly growing message volume
» Modular scanning techniques for maximum flexibility
» High accuracy through multi-layered analysis
» Multi-language and language-neutral tests
» Customizable web-based control panel
Distributed network architecture
» Five data centers in North America
» One data center in Germany, one in the UK
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Benefits for customers
Key features of GFI MailEssentials Online
» Highly accurate, adaptive system blocks emerging junk mail
□ (historical examples include image spam and PDF spam)
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Zero-hour virus protection
Email continuity
Outbound filtering
Message logging and search
Configurable user preferences and individual quarantines allow users
the ability to manage their spam without administrator assistance
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More benefits for customers
Other advantages of service
» No software or hardware to download, install, configure or maintain
» Provides reliability and scalability alone or in addition to a hardware or
software solution
□ Eliminates single point of failure with on-premise solution
□ Multiple systems in multiple data centers provide for much greater
capacity to handle large spam runs and increasing message traffic
» Threats are blocked before they reach the customer’s network
» Rapid implementation in a matter of minutes
» Service is compatible with any operating system(s) or mail
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infrastructure and continues working even when there are changes to
that infrastructure
Inexpensive and predictable pricing, with no capital investment
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How it stacks up
Simple to use
Easier than Google
Better support
Toll Free vs. Google “Support”
Continuity
Additional charge from Google
Less expensive
Considerably less expensive with
archiving option included
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Advantages over hardware/software solutions
Advantages of GFI MailEssentials Online service
» Reliability
» Scalability
» Business continuity
» Simple, rapid, remote deployment – and reduced management
» No capital investment
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Advantages over other services
Feature advantages of GFI MailEssentials Online
» Ease of use
» Integrated queuing and email continuity
Structural advantages of GFI
» Value-oriented, tiered pricing model
» Quality of support
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To find out more visit:
www.gfi.com/meo
© 2012 GFI Software – GFI MailEssentials Online is a registered trademark, and GFI and the GFI logo
are trademarks of GFI Software in Germany, USA, the United Kingdom and other countries.
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Features are subject to change without notice.