1-Year spamBlocker Subscription for Firebox® X700 Firewall Appliance
Blocks up to 97% of unwanted email regardless of language, content, or format of messages
Spam accounts for around 70% of all email traffic. It slows network traffic, spreads viruses, distributes spyware and phishing attacks, and leads unsuspecting users to malicious Web sites where further dangers await. Now you can stop spam and all the dangers it carries cold without compromising performance with this powerful security service.
Available for:
Firebox® X Peak™ appliances
Firebox X Core™ appliances running Fireware® or Fireware Pro appliance software
Firebox X Edge appliances running v8.5 appliance software
The Next Generation of Spam Prevention
WatchGuard® spamBlocker uses the ground-breaking Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD™) technology developed by Commtouch® to analyze large volumes of Internet traffic in real time and identify outbreaks as they emerge.
RPD goes beyond evaluating keywords and content to give you up-to-the-minute protection from spam attacks regardless of the language, content, or format of the message. You're even protected against image-based spam.
Key Features and Benefits
- Strong protection - Best service in the industry at distinguishing legitimate communication from spam outbreaks in real time, blocking up to 97% of unwanted email before it reaches the internal mail server.
- Intuitive management - Easy-to-use interface makes deployment and ongoing management simple and straightforward, even for novice network administrators.
- Flexible administrator control - IT administrator has the flexibility to:
Decide how messages will be processed, and which users and groups can receive bulk mail.
Use whitelists and blacklist to allow mail from trusted domains.
Block, allow, and tag mail for easy identification and forwarding to dedicated Exchange folders.
- Optimized for better network performance - Requires minimal bandwidth and CPU power because most of the processing is done outside the Internet gateway.
- Decision making in real time - Provides real-time spam-monitoring reports so you have an up-to-the-minute view of all spam-blocking activity.
- Cost effective solution - Priced per appliance, one spamBlocker subscription provides network-wide protection for all users configured behind your Firebox X.
Unified Threat Management (UTM)
The zero day attack prevention built into the Firebox X architecture provides proactive protection for your network. spamBlocker augments this security capability by stopping unwanted, potentially dangerous email from entering your network. With multiple layers of security working together, you get the best possible protection at a price you can afford for comprehensive unified threat management.
