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IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS)

© 2007 IBM Corporation

SECURE COLLABORATION

Sukhdev SinghTech Manager

IBM Internet Security Systems E-Mail Security

© 2007 IBM Corporation2 Proventia Network Mail for Lotus Notes/Domino

Focus

How Your Business Can Reap Real Benefits from “Real”Security–Compliance–Uptime & Productivity / Availability–Data Protection / Confidentiality & Integrity

Antispam technology is simply not enough against email threats



Business Problems and Challenges Solved Through Proventia Network Mail Security System

Spam Control: Removes spam emails that slow or harm your email infrastructure or the end user, to protect network uptime and improve employee productivityMulti-layered Protection: Prevents application level attacks like viruses, worms and malicious code before they impact employee productivity or business assets; preemptively blocks attacks against the messaging infrastructure, allowing legitimate messaging traffic to pass through untouchedCompliance: Establishes email security controls through easily customized policies to support outbound content compliance and internal security mandates



Benefits

Enables protection of the email flow and messaging infrastructure in one solution

Increased productivity and network uptime

Helps prevent confidential information from leaving the organization via email

Addresses compliance ahead of time by preempting the rising standard of due care



World’s leading independent IT security providerWorld leader in security intelligence

World leader in preemptive security

World leader in managed protection services

Founded in 1994Headquartered in Atlanta, USA

1998 IPO – NASDAQ: ISSX

Over 1,200 employees in 27 countries

Over 12,000 customers worldwide

Acquired by Oct 2006

ISS Company Background



IBM 2007 Midyear Report



Spam and Phishing



Key Pillars of Strength of IBM ISS



Gartner Key Customer Considerations* for E-mail Security

Getting rid of spam e-mail

Blocking undesirable or illegal content

Protecting intellectual property

Protecting brand image

Lowering consumption of IT resources–Saving network costs

–Saving help-desk costs

–Saving valuable bandwidth

Reducing cost of lost user productivity

*Gartner, 2006



~ 80% of email is spam~ 6% contains a virus or phishing attackMalicious Code–66% of all companies have been infected by viruses delivered through e-mail attachment

–Propagation times for malicious email viruses have dropped from hours to minutes

Industry Compliance–30% of all employees have sent confidential information to external recipients, intentionally or by mistake

Today’s Email Security Problem



Email Threat: Phishing

Stealing of Personal Information –Internet Banking Account

–Usernames and Passwords, etc

Picture compliments of Singcert



Email Threat: Spear Phishing



Email Threat: Virus Email Attachment

Chart inspired by Virus Bulletin Sep 2005 article entitled“New Malware Distribution Methods Threaten Signature-Based AV”



Email Threat: Malware Attachment



Email Threat: Accidental

Have you ever sent out

An email

Accidentally?



Preemptive protection and spam control for the enterprise messaging infrastructure

–Multi-level message analysis recognizes even new spam trends at ~98%

Includes customizable analysis modules to enable outbound content compliance and acceptable use policies

–LDAP integration with Lotus® Notes®/Domino®

Receives automatic updates to keep spam, viruses and other malicious traffic at bay

Supports up to 10,000 users;–36,000 e-mails/hour (with full analysis and quarantine)

IBM’s multi-vector messaging protection solution

MS3004

IBM Proventia Network Mail



Benefits of IBM Proventia Network Mail Security SystemPreemptive Protection–Virus Prevention System (VPS) –Integrated Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) technology

Extensive Spam/Content Backbone–Proventia Filter Database

• Utilizes more than 500 web crawlers and 800 spam collectors, analyzing more than 5.9 billion web pages and images to date (second in size only to Google)

Defense-in-Depth–Seamless integration with IBM Proventia protection platform, including network and host security solutions

SC Magazine “Recommended Product” for March 2007 E-mail Content Filtering Group Test5-out-of-5 Stars!!

Backed by world-leading X-Force research and IBM ISS premier content filtering innovation (based in Kassel, Germany)



Multi-layered Email ProtectionHow Proventia Network Mail Works

Helps to secure your customers’ e-mail

infrastructures with multi-layered protection technologies.

Lotus Notes Domino



Recipient Verification



Logical, easy-to-use rule creation lessens the burden on your administrative staff

Define policy to enforce compliance mandates and acceptable use policies

Granular Policy Control



Web-based Local Management Interface

Also available –

SiteProtector Centralized Management

Clustering / High Availability –Multiple boxes managed through one appliance

Proventia Network Mail Management Options



IBM Proventia Network Mail Security System is a comprehensive messaging security

solution.

It complements Lotus Notes & Domino Infrastructure and helps segregate the Lotus collaboration application stack from internet

email threats and attacks.



Key Questions to on your E-mail SecurityWhat steps have you taken to protect your email infrastructure and end users against spam and phishing?

–Are you seeing an increase in the amount of spam analyzed by your current anti-spam solution?

–If so, are you seeing an increase in the amount of spam bypassing your current anti-spam solution?

How educated are your employees regarding spam or a phishing attempt? What role does securing your email infrastructure play in policy control or compliance initiatives? How are you currently protecting your email infrastructure against network-based attacks? When was the last time your email traffic was affected by a virus? Are you familiar with some of the new ways viruses and malcode are distributed to unsuspecting companies and end users? How would an email outage or loss of email continuity impact to your company’s business processes?

MS3004

IBM Proventia Network Mail



Q & A

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MS3004

IBM Proventia Network Mail Security System

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