F5 Message Security Module

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F5 Message Security Module
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The Message Management Problem

• Out of 75 billion emails sent worldwide each day,
  over 70 is spam!
• The volume of spam is doubling every 6-9 months!
• Clogging networks
• Cost to protect is increasing

TrustedSource Reputation Scores
Nov 2005
Oct 2006
Higher score worse reputation
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Typical Corporate Pain

• Employees still get spam
• Some are annoying, some are offensive
• Infrastructure needed to deal with spam is
  expensive!
• Firewalls
• Servers
• Software (O/S, anti-spam licenses, etc.)
• Bandwidth
• Rack space
• Power
• Budget doesnt match spam growth
• Legitimate email delivery slowed due to spam

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Why is this happening?

• Spam really works!
• Click rate of 1 in 1,000,000 is successful
• Spammers are smart professionals
• Buy the same anti-spam technology we do
• Develop spam to bypass filters
• Persistence through trial and error
• Blasted out by massive controlled botnets
• Professional spammers have
• Racks of equipment
• Every major filtering software and appliance
  available
• Engineering staff

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Its not just annoyingit can be dangerous.

• 2 of all email globally contains some sort of
  malware.
• Phishing
• Viruses
• Trojans (zombies, spyware)

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High Cost of Spam Growth

• Spam volume increases
• Bandwidth usage increases
• Load on Firewalls increases
• Load on existing messaging security systems
  increases
• Emails slow down
• Needlessly uses up rackspace, power, admin time

DMZ
Firewall
Messaging Security
Email Servers
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MSM Blocking At the Edge
Messaging Security Server Second Tier
BIG-IP MSM First Tier
Mail Servers
Emails
e hello
Works with any Anti-Spam Solution
Terminating 70 of the Spam from the e hello
Filters out 10 to 20 of Spam
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Why TrustedSource?

• Industry Leader
• Solid Gartner reviews MQ
• IDC market share leader
• Superior technology
• Stability

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TrustedSource Leading IP Reputation DB
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TrustedSource
AUTOMATED ANALYSIS

• Messages Analyzed per Month
• 10 Billion Enterprise
• 100 Billion Consumer

Dynamic Computation Of Reputation Score
Global data monitoring is fueled by the network
effect of real-time information sharing from
thousands of gateway security devices around the
world
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Shared Global Intelligence
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TrustedSource Identifies Outbreaks Before They
Happen
11/03/05 A/V Signatures
11/02/05 Other Reputation Systems Triggered
9/12/05 TrustedSource Flagged Zombie

• 11/01/05 This machine began sending Bagle worm
  across the Internet
• 11/03/05 Anti-virus signatures were available to
  protect against Bagle
• Two months earlier, TrustedSource identified this
  machine as not being trustworthy

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Content Filters Struggle to ID certain spam
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Image-based spam
Hashbusting Scratches
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Summary of Benefits

• Eliminate up to 70 of spam upon receipt of first
  packet
• Reduce Cost for Message Management
• TMOS Module High performance Cost effective
  spam blocking at network edge
• Integrated into BIG-IP to avoid box proliferation
• Improved Scaleability and Message Control
• Reputation Based Message Distribution and Traffic
  Shaping
• Slightly increase kill-rate on unwanted email

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Packaging

• BIG-IP LTM Only
• Version Support 9.2 and higher
• Module May be added to any
• LTM or Enterprise
• No Module incompatibilities with other Modules
• Licensed per BIG-IP by number of mailboxes
• BIG-IP Platform sizing depends on
• Email volume
• Number of BIG-IPs
• Other functions expected of BIG-IP (additional
  taxes on CPU time)

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Additional Info
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How BIG-IP MSM Works
Internet
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Spam Volumes Out of Control
of Worldwide email that is Spam
85
Percent Spam
70
Nov 2005
Oct 2006
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Hard-to-detect Image Spam is Growing
Percent of Total Email
2006
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Reputation-based Security Model