ModusPresentation

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ModusGate 4.4 Smart Email Assurance
Gateway Not Just Warmed-over Open Source
Technology And Not Just Any Supplier
Paul Vanbosterhaut Managing Director, Vircom
Europe January 2007
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Corporate Overview

• Headquartered in Montreal, Canada
• Focused on email security since 1995
• Own well-architected technology
• Not open to hackers and spammers
• Promptly adapts to new threats or regulations
• Flexible to incorporate specific customer
  requirements
• Mature Technology
• Industry-acclaimed
• 10 years, 100 countries and 1.000 clients
• Millions of protected mailboxes
• Multiple awards for performance and value

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Agenda

• Corporate Overview
• Modus Smart Email Assurance Technology
• Modus Solutions
• Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
• Conclusion

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Modus Smart Email Assurance

• Protection
• Blocks
• Harvesting attempts
• DoS attempts
• Phishing Spoofing
• Intercepts viruses, worms
• Stops forbidden attachments
• Filters spam
• Policy management
• Management
• Automation
• Delegation
• Monitoring
• Deployment

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Modus Protection Network-level protection

• Protects against DoS attacks, Open Relay and
  harvesting (validation) attacks
• Blocks most obvious spam without receiving the
  email
• Validates the sender (SPF)
• Verifies sending method
• Checks the envelope profile
• Performs Email Encryption
• Very low CPU usage

• 8 specialized layers
• Protocol filter
• SMTP security
• - 128-bit TLS Encryption
• Mail Relay Control
• Sender Validation
• - Reverse DNS lookup
• - SPF mechanism
• - Realtime Whitelists
• Block scan attack
• RBLs
• Connection limits
• Block connections

Why it wont do it alone It would cause high
false-positive rates with no opportunity to
recover the valid email
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Modus ProtectionForbidden attachments

• Blocks e-mails with specific file formats
  attached
• Efficient even against hidden extensions
• Out-of-the-box file list (customizable)
• Network, domain and user configurable
• Supports/enforces your corporate policy
• Fall-back option in case of unblocked viruses
• Discard obvious unwanted files without calling
  the anti-virus engine

Why it wont do it alone It wont replace a
reliable anti-virus engine
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Modus ProtectionAnti-virus engine

• 24/7 updated virus protection from trusted
  vendors
• McAfee
• Norman Data Defence
• Incl. Nomans SandBOX zero-hour defence
• Locks viruses away from your users inboxes
• Acts as an extra precaution in virus-protected
  environments

Why it wont do it alone Anti-virus engines do
not block spam
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Modus ProtectionWhitelist / Blacklist

• Can block or allow email from specified senders
• Based on senders address
• Multi-level configuration
• Ultra-Secure Mailbox feature
• Guarantees that e-mail from trusted senders will
  not be scanned and blocked
• Allows users to block e-mail other than spam

Why it wont do it alone List management can
become time consuming
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Modus ProtectionEmail content extractor

• Purifies the message body and adds advanced email
  metrics for further analysis
• Neutralizes all forms of hidden malicious code
• Analyzes the email structure in search of known
  spam characteristics

Why it wont do it alone This method only
detects spam with malformed HTML or MIME encoding
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Modus ProtectionCustom Sieve scripts

• Allows corporate policy management
• Parental/Manager Review
• Internal policies
• Allows administrator to write custom scripts
• To alter the SCA engines behavior
• As Fallback option to block virus, worm or trojan
  outbreaks

• Can be applied
• Before all scanning
• Before AS scanning
• After all scanning

Why it wont do it alone Scripting can become
time consuming and cant keep up with todays
spam volume
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Modus ProtectionSCA engine

• Uses stacked layers of predictive and statistical
  technologies to block even the most advanced
  forms of Spam, Image Spam Phish
• Sequential content analysis
• E-mail metrics analysis
• Content sampling
• Unparalleled accuracy
• 98,2 catch rate
• Real-time updates

Why it wont do it alone While the SCA is the
smartest technology in the stack, the previous
specialized layers are essential
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ModusGate Management

• Automated Management
• Dynamic Population of Users DB
• AV, AS AP Auto-updates
• Automatic Quarantine Cleaning
• User Delegation
• Quarantine Report
• Web Quarantine
• Personal Quarantine Review
• User settings
• WebManagement
• WebAdmin
• WebMonitor

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Modus ManagementAutomated Management

• Automated Management
• Dynamic Population of Users DB
• 24/7 anti-Virus, anti-Spam anti-Phishing
  Updates
• Automatic Quarantine Cleaning

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Modus ManagementUser Authority Delegation

• Quarantine Reports
• Ability to View, Delete and Release
  false-positives
• Ability to Report false positives and Whitelist
  senders
• Scheduled, but Users can initiate report at any
  time
• High user customizability of Report
• Possibility to select only desired
  items for report
• Possibility to select language

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Modus ManagementUser Authority Delegation

• Web Quarantine Management
• Personal Quarantine Management (View, Delete,
  Release)
• Personal Settings
• ModusScan severity level
• ModusScan behavior
• Attachment blocking
• Whitelist blacklist
• Quarantine reporting

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Modus ManagementWeb Management

• Web Admin
• User Management
• Domain Management

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Modus ManagementWebMonitor

• Performance Monitoring
• Mail Traffic
• System Health

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Modus ManagementWebMonitor

• Message Audit Log
• Track status of every unique email
• Configurable tracking period (per user, domain or
  system)
• Web search exporting for auditing/discovery
• Store parsed email headers/body parts for search
  /processing

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ModusGate Advanced Features

• Fault-Tolerant Deployment
• ModusBlockade Clustering option
• Data centralization with external database
  support
• Policy Management
• Sieve-based Scripting Engine
• Quarantine, copy, redirect refuse emails based
  on policy rules
• Content based email intercept for
  moderator/parental approval
• Force encrypted delivery of email based on
  content
• Applies on different traffic types (incoming,
  outgoing, routed internal)
• Applies at different scanning levels (before all
  scanning, before AS scanning or after all
  scanning)
• Email Encryption
• 128-bit TLS Encryption
• Mail traffic and Authentication
• Customization
• Fully brand-able .Net Web Quarantine and
  Quarantine report

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Agenda

• Corporate Overview
• Modus Smart Email Assurance Technology
• Modus Solutions
• Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
• Conclusion

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ModusGateEmail Assurance Gateway

• Features Modus Smart Email Assurance Technology
• Installs in front of any mail server
• Caches emails during mail server failures
• Dynamic population of users DB (LDAP, Active
  Directory)
• Suitable for both low or high volume environments
• Supports from 10 up to 100.000 mailboxes
• Supports thousands of domains and mailservers
• Supports clustered configurations
  (ModusBlockade)
• Offers eMail VPN Capabilities
• Has a customizable end user web interface
• Available as software or complete appliance!

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ModusGateStandard Deployment

• ModusGate in front of Mail Server(s)

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ModusGateSMB Deployment

• ModusGate on Mail Server (

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ModusGateEmail Assurance Appliance

• Features Modus Smart Email Assurance Technology
• Fully secure appliance based on the powerful
  Celestix Scorpio II appliance platform
• Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor with a
  400/533/800 Front Side Bus
• 1 GB DDR Memory
• 80 GB Hard drive
• 2 Intel Gigbit Ethernet Controllers 2 Intel
  10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controllers
• 1U Rackmount Form Factor with LAN status,
  Ethernet Ports LCD display on front panel
• Web-based Appliance Console
• Full secured web-based administration interface
• Seven step installation process for rapid
  deployment

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ModusGateEmail Assurance Appliance

• Appliance Secure Web Management

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Agenda

• Corporate Overview
• Modus Smart Email Assurance Technology
• Modus Solutions
• Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
• The cost of Spam
• The cost of anti-Spam
• Conclusion

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The Cost of SpamVircoms Cost Calculator
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The Costs of Confined SpamProduct Setup Costs

• Solution costs
• Hardware
• Appliance or Platform costs (incl. OS)
• Software
• Service contracts (Support Maintenance)
• Annual subscription
• anti-Spam, anti-Phishing, anti-Virus
• Installation initial set-up
• Client plug-in installation (if required)

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The Costs of Anti-SpamAdministration Costs

• System Tuning
• Perimeter Defence,
• anti-Spam Tuning/Learning
• Quarantine management
• Specific User/Group Settings
• Account Management
• Users Aliases,
• Authentication
• User/Group Settings
• System Software Maintenance

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The Costs of Anti-SpamProductivity Losses

• Let-through Spam (False Negatives)
• Quarantine Management
• Quarantine Review
• False-Positives Release and Report
• Sender Whitelisting
• User Settings

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The Cost of Confined SpamFerris Research
Source Ferris Research Calculating Spam Cost
in Your Organization - February 2005 - Report
511
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The Cost of Confined SpamIDC
Source IDC - The True Cost of SPAM and Value
of Anti-SPAM Solutions Study, 2004
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The Cost of Confined SpamVircoms TCO Model
Source Vircom Assessing The Cost of Confined
Spam, 2007
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Agenda

• Corporate Overview
• Modus Smart Email Assurance Technology
• Modus Solutions
• Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
• Conclusion

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The Modus Benefits

• Trust your email. Today. Forever.
• Protects your mail infrastructure
• Offers perimeter defense, anti-Virus and
  Anti-Spam
• Insures email availability
• Protects your users/employees
• Protects them from fraud (anti-Phishing
  anti-Spoofing)
• Offers authenticated access to personal
  Quarantine
• Protects your company
• Protects against inbound outbound threats
• Encrypts critical data (128-bit TLS Encryption)
• Protects against information leakage or abusive
  language
• Offers Lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Automated Modus Management
• Authority Delegation
• Performance Monitoring

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Customer Services

• Silver Care (Standard)
• Business hour telephone support
• Updates upgrades
• Knowledge-base access
• List Server participation
• Gold Care
• Silver Care plus
• 24/7 telephone support
• Guaranteed 30 minute qualified response
• Installation support
• Optimization support
• Training

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Modus Clients
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Thank you !
Paul Vanbosterhaut paul.vanbosterhaut_at_vircom-europ
e.com 32 475-25.25.53