Tumbleweed releases MailGate Appliance 3.0
October 11, 2005
MailGate Appliance 3.0 delivers protection from spam, viruses and other inbound content threats, while adding new network layer edge defenses and bi-directional content filtering and policy management.
Designed to provide comprehensive email security, MailGate Appliance uses Tumbleweed's new 64-bit appliance hardware based on AMD's Opteron CPU. This new appliance platform offers unsurpassed email performance, with the 1U version processing 375,000 messages per hour and the 2U version processing 500,000 messages per hour.
"Tumbleweed's intention has always been to lead the industry both in breadth and depth of solution offerings," said John Thielens, CTO of Tumbleweed. "The latest release of our MailGate Appliance gives our customers even more flexibility to build the best solution for their environment. The addition of content filtering and Edge Defense to our robust appliance version gives customers who want complete security in hardware form factor more options than ever before."
About MailGate 3.0
MailGate 3.0 offers comprehensive inbound and outbound email security, including:
-- Antispam - protection from spam and phishing attacks
-- Antivirus - protection from viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware
-- Outbreak protection - zero hour protection from spam and virus outbreaks
-- Network layer Edge defenses - protection from Dark Traffic, including Directory Harvest Attacks and email Denial-of-Service attacks
-- Bi-directional content filtering - monitoring email traffic to identify data leakage and regulatory compliance violations
-- Policy enforcement - a powerful, yet easy to use engine for delivering, re-routing, blocking, quarantining, archiving, or encrypting email messages based on corporate email policy
Scalable, flexible configuration:
-- Support for multiple appliances for high volume processing and redundancy
-- Transparent clustering with automated load balancing
-- Local directory-based authentication for end users
-- Centralized end-user queues
-- High performance hardware
Centralized management and reporting:
-- Single management console
-- Consistent policy across appliances
-- No need for additional, dedicated console
-- Integrated solution - no extra products to buy for quarantine management or reporting
Tumbleweed MailGate Appliance version 3.0 is available now. The MailGate Appliance can be used stand-alone, or in combination with other Tumbleweed email security products to provide complete, multi-tier email security, email message encryption, and gateway to gateway secure communications.