mailfence presentationslide no. 1 next generation virusprotection

mailFence presentation Slide no. 1

Next generation virusprotection


Virus – What is it?

• The first viruses to appear were small programs made to do nothing with Your computer, but to have fun with it, no harm intended.

• Today a virus is a sofisticated piece of software with a built-in SMTP server designed to spread itself, it can shut down Your anti-virus software and send Your personal passwords to a fixed location on the Internet.

• Today computerviruses are a serious securityproblem, it’s not for fun anymore, only harmful and destructive behavior is considered a succes with a virusdesigner.


Do we have virusproblem?

• Have You ever recieved a virus?

• Do You know anyone who has recieved a virus?

• Is the number of viruses climbing or dropping?

• Do You think virusdesigners are getting smarter or dumber?


How big is the problem?

• 70-100 new viruses every week *1• 43% of all danish companies have had a virus outbreak *2• Aprox. 1 out of 100 e-mails are infected with virus *3• The virus risk has doubled 10 times since 1996 *4• It takes 23 days to cure an average virusinfected computer

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*1: According to Symantec Antivirus Research Center (SARC) research director Steve Trilling*2: According to report from Danmarks Statistik, feb. 2003.*3: According to comendo real-time statistics*4: According to ICSA Labs rapport*5: According to ICSA Labs rapport


When a virus breaks out?

• You loose critical data, employee hours and the good reputation of Your company.

• The company’s efficiency is also affected, ie. The production could be slowed down or in some cases shut down.

• Loss of incoming orders can also be a disaster for the company. What would happen if Your company didn’t have e-mail for 5 days?

• Furthermore You will also have expenses and use resources cleaning and restoring the infected computers.


Whats being done today?

According to a security report from the government operated bureau ”Statistics of Denmark” made Feb. 2003, danish companies do this: • 81% use anti-virus software.

• 11% have security education for their employees.

• 55% bought a monthly security service.


Misunderstandings

• ”Our Firewall stops virus!”

• ”Our anti-virus software updates and takes care of itself!”

• ”We update our anti-virus software once a week, that’s more than enough!”

• ”Our Exchange server updates and takes care of itself!”


E-mail flow without mailFence

E-mail withvirus is recieved

E-mail with virus is sent

I N T E R N E TI N T E R N E T

Protection the way it used to be:

You are responsibleIt is up to You to have the best possible protection for Your computer.

You have to maintain itYou are responsible for maintaining it, 24 hours a day!

Don’t let the enemy insideIf Your anti-virus software isn’t up to date, the virus could already be inside Your network

Loss of imageIf You’ve had a virus outbreak, the probability of the virus spreading itself through Your contactlist is very high. .

RECIPIENTSENDER


Imagine You could:

And at the same time do NOTHING!

No updates (releases, patches,etc)!

Never recieve another virus infected e-mail?

For less than 14 cents a day!

No maintenance!


The trouble with e-mail security

98% of all virus is spread through e-mail.

Traditionel anti-virus software has only 1 scanner.

Traditional anti-virus software is first active after the virus has entered Your company network.

Your company is responsible for updating, maintaining and licensing the anti-virus software.


Why not settle for 1 scanner?

• Anti-virus software must constantly be updated and improved to keep up with the virusdesigners.

• The software has to prepare for virus in compressed files, virus being launched from code (ex. HTML) and other new ways to launch a virus.

• Independent tests done every month have shown, that a single anti-virus software product doesn’t get a top rating several months in a row. *1

• No antivirus software promises 100% virussecurity!

*1: According to independent tests fra ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs, Virus Bulletin, AV-Test.org, Virus TestCenter


Your companys internal network

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Scanning outside my network?

mailFence puts a ring of safety around Your company so no virus can enter through e-mail.

Your companys internal network will never get in contact with virus sent through e-mail.

You protect Your company the same way, set up a fence or a wall to prevent unwanted visitors.


4 SOLUTIONS4 PROBLEMS

98% of all virus is spread through e-mail.

Your company is responsible for updating, maintaining and licensing the anti-virus software.

Traditional anti-virus software only has 1 scanner.

Traditional anti-virus software only protects when the virushas entered Your company network.

mailFence scans all e-mail for virus.

mailFence has 5 virus-scanners and Pre Virus Recognition.

mailFence scans all e-mail before it is sent to Your company. No virus can enter the network that way.

mailFence is updated every 10. minutes, 24 hours a day. Comendo takes care of all maintenance and licensing.


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I N T E R N E T T E TI N T E R N E T T E T

E-mail without virus recieved

NB! If we can’t clean the e-mail, we send an e-mail to the recipient stating that a virus has been found and deleted.

RECIPIENTSENDER


Flowdiagram for mailFence

Average scanningtime from receiving till sending: 400 ms.

When a virus is found mailFence removes it and the scanning starts all over, all MIME sections are scanned once more for virus.

An e-mail can never be passed onto step 4, before ALL virusscanners have labled it virusfree!

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1.Incoming e-mail allowcheck.We block at IP Level.

2.Every e-mail is splitup in MIME sections.

Compressed e-mails are unpacked down 20 levels.

3.Every MIME section is scanned for virus by our 5 scanners.

4.Every MIME section is checked for patternrecognitionby our heuristic PVR scanner.

5.E-mail is sentto customers mail-server. If this isdown, we’ll retryin up to 14 days.


Can I use it?

• Yes! You can use mailFence regardless of what mailsoftware or mailserver You’re using: Outlook, Lotus Notes or Exchange.

• Yes! You can use mailFence regardless of what operating system You’re using : Unix, Linux, Apple or Windows.

• mailFence requires no setup and no changes within the customer for scanning incoming mail.


Double mirrors!

• Our mailFence setup features mirrored systems, in that way a secondary system will take over, should the primary fail.

• We’ve even mirrored a second data center on a alternative geografic location to make sure that we always have a system up and running.

• Both data centers include power backup (UPS), Airconditioning, firealarms and have been secured behind multiple securitydoors with alarmsystems.


It is written! (in the DB)

Our online customer reportcenter includes detailed statistics for the customers complete e-mail traffic:

• View in- and outgoing e-mails stats including number of viruses blocked

• Virus graphs

• Virus top 10

• Send report to e-mail

• View custom periods: days – weeks – months

• Virusactivity

• 7 days overview

• Inspect all in- and outgoing e-mails with the possibility to search and filter messages


Total Cost of Ownership

TCO can be reduced significantly because You save resources and expenses on:

• Installing and maintaining software

• Updating and maintaining serversoftware

• An IT Administrator to overlook and maintain the e-mail securitysoftware

• An employee to maintain all licensing for the software

• Employees to clean up after a virus attack.

• Employees not being able to work because their computers are down due to a virusattack.

All employees save time as they no longer recieve infected emails.


mailFence offers:

6 x virusprotection

No setup and no maintenance!

Virus free e-mail!

The best virusprotection!

Detailed management reports!


Questions?


mailFence stops virusin all incoming and

outgoing e-mail.

mailFence scans e-mail before it is sent to

Your company.

mailFence has 5 virus-scanners + 1 scannerwith patternrecognition.

mailFence is updated every 10 minutes

24/7/365.

Comendo takes care of maintaining, licensing

and updating.

mailFence advantages:

Online customer report-center, with detailed stats

of Your e-mail traffic.

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