Comprehensive, powerful, and easy-to-manage email security

Tumbleweed MailGate delivers the most robust, effective and easy to manage email security available. Through its unrivaled content filtering, anti-virus, anti-spam, and intelligent edge defense, MailGate protects any organization, large or small, against fast-moving virus outbreaks, botnets, spam, and denial-of-service attacks - eliminating up to 90 percent of email traffic before it enters your organization.

MailGate also prevents accidental email data leakage that can jeopardize corporate reputation and regulatory compliance. MailGate provides end-to-end protection with intuitive policy controls that make it easy to enforce rules around content, users, recipients, and attachments, while providing the widest range of policy actions, from blocking to encryption. MailGate reduces the cost and complexity associated with protecting sensitive data, with innovative user interface that filters content such as credit card, social security and CUSIP with a simple check box.

Built on a hardened Linux appliance, MailGate installs in minutes, and is capable of processing close to two million messages an hour. Its intuitive administrative controls and centralized management capabilities make it the right choice for mid-sized, as well as large, geographically dispersed organizations.

Flexible, modular email protection

MailGate's flexible architecture enables you to select only the specific levels of protection you need now, while making it easy and straightforward to add new modules as your security demands grow.

MailGate's comprehensive modular capabilities include:

Intelligent Edge Defense: MailGate combines a unique combination of on-box anomaly detection, and rate throttling, with real-time zombie detection, and IP reputation services. This provides effective defense against distributed botnet attacks - correlating spam outbreaks across multiple IP addresses, even if they have been recently hijacked, with no existing reputation. The Edge module can also eliminate directory harvest attacks, email denial-of-service attacks, malformed SMTP packets, invalid recipient addresses, and other forms of malicious and invalid messages - reducing raw email loads by more than 90 percent. And by verifying valid recipients at the perimeter, you can create IP-based block and allow lists, identify suspicious senders, and apply intelligent traffic shaping and message throttling for invalid messages.

The results: you significantly enhance your email network performance. You no longer need to waste your budget on an over-scaled email infrastructure you don't need, while spammers and other attackers move on to easier targets. Your legitimate email flows unfettered.

Anti-spam: MailGate's layered anti-spam filtering technologies effectively block more than 99 percent of all inbound spam, with virtually no false positives (based on independent tests performed by VeriTest and West Coast Labs). Anti-spam techniques include meticulous content analysis, image analysis, and rules-based heuristics, with automatic updates to all appliances every hour. Tumbleweed's Message Protection Lab assure the highest levels of accuracy with detailed human review and AI-enhanced analysis by Tumbleweed's Message Protection Lab of more than 400 million messages every day.

Anti-virus: Industry-leading McAfee or Kaspersky anti-virus engines provide complete gateway protection from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, and other forms of malware. And MailGate enables you to develop custom virus scanning policies and block selected, unauthorized file attachments and executables. Because the very first minutes and hours of new virus epidemics are critical, MailGate' Zero-hour virus outbreak protection quarantines suspicious messages and attachments in these decisive early hours. Administrators can specify the length of time for quarantines until anti-virus vendors provide virus signature updates.

Content Filtering: MailGate prevents accidental data leaks of sensitive and proprietary information, including information about customers, employees, and intellectual property, as well as information protected by industry and government regulations. In fact, MailGate's content-filtering capabilities that protect credit card, social security, and banking/trading (CUSIP) numbers can be enforced by clicking a simple checkbox. In addition, extensive lexicons of financial and healthcare terms, and offensive words and phrases are combined with flexible word-weighting to give you complete and granular control over a wide range of regulated information on all inbound and outbound messages, including more than 300 types of attachments-even binary and nested files.

Policy Manager: Provides you the most powerful and streamlined way to build and manage your email security policies, and protect against accidental data leakage. Through MailGate's intuitive interface, you can easily build role-based rules on senders, recipients, content, attachments, message headers, and file size. MailGate enables you to take automated actions that quarantine, return, drop, annotate, add disclaimers, modify headers, or tag messages for future analysis..

Encryption: MailGate not only blocks malicious traffic, but also provides secure communication. MailGate delivers automatic gateway-to-gateway strong encryption for any remote domain through policy-based TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption support. In addition, through MailGate Secure Messenger, messages can be routed based on message content or the identity of senders and receivers. MailGate provides the industry's widest range of encryption methods and secure email delivery options, including remote certificate error checking and validation, S/MIME and PGP protocols, and patented, secure Web-based delivery.

Powerful dashboard controls and communication insight

MailGate gives you total control of your email security with an easy-to-use management console. This state-of-the-art dashboard lowers your administrative costs by providing real-time feedback across multiple appliances on email traffic, network attacks, spam statistics, message queues, content filtering, and much more. MailGate provides comprehensive and insightful reporting, including automated report generation and delivery, and advanced message tracking, thereby saving time and providing management greater visibility.

The MailGate management dashboard provides real-time feedback on email security.

High-performance appliances with easy installation and centralized management

MailGate is a high-performance, hardened Linux appliance with a range of sizes to meet the needs of any size organization. Each appliance is designed for reliability, with redundant disk drives, RAID controllers, and optional redundant power supplies. Embedded remote access controllers provide serviceability without un-racking your appliance. And in the case of a hardware failure, Tumbleweed provides worldwide onsite hardware support.

Additionally, multiple remote and geographically distributed MailGate appliances can be centrally managed and monitored from a single console. MailGate's clear user interface makes it easy to set up multiple administrators who can be delegated access based on their specific job functions and duties, making it possible to enforce strong administrative security policies. In this way, MailGate greatly reduces administrative costs, providing redundancy, high availability, scalability, and secure management for large and distributed organizations.