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Specialized Email Security Solutions – FortiMail

(pdf) FortiMail Datasheet

In today’s networks, email is one of the most predominant business communication methods. Unfortunately, email has also become one of the most common vehicles for proliferating blended threats comprised of viruses, worms, spyware and spam. These blended attacks can negatively impact business productivity, cause business downtime and lead to identity theft. In response, companies have leveraged point product security technologies, such as antispam, to patch against single threaded attacks. In addition, legislation has been introduced to ensure that companies comply with security best practices for email archiving that enable forensic and legal audits. Email is a mission critical application for all businesses that must be secured.

FortiMail™ is a specialized email security system that provides multi-layered protection against blended threats comprised of spam, viruses, worms and spyware. The FortiMail system relies on a customized operating system that cleans emails through corresponding FortiMail antispam, antivirus and antispyware engines. To ensure up to date email protection, FortiMail relies on Fortinet FortiGuard™ antivirus, antispyware and antispam security subscription services that are powered by a worldwide 24×7 Global Threat Research organization. FortiMail provides unparallel deployment flexibility and powerful bi-directional email routing, QoS, virtualization and archiving capabilities with a lower total cost of ownership.

Primary benefits of the FortiMail family include:

  • Increasing employee productivity by reducing unwanted spam messages
  • Reducing mail system and network resource consumption caused by spam messages
  • Eliminating threats using the email attack vector
  • Aiding in regulatory compliance through advanced email content archiving
  • Providing flexible deployment options with three modes of operation: Transparent, Gateway and Server
  • Reducing impact to IT resources through purpose-built hardware platforms, a security hardened operating system and automatic security content updates