1.1 What Is Trustwave MailMarshal?

Trustwave MailMarshal – previously known as Trustwave Secure Email Gateway (SEG) – is a fast, easy-to-use email content security solution that ensures a safe and productive working environment by enforcing your Acceptable Use Policy and protecting against spam, viruses, and other undesirable content.

Trustwave MailMarshal features a layered security approach to dramatically reduce spam and protect your network. This approach delivers a greater than 97% spam detection rate with less than 0.001% false positives. The product performs up to four times faster than other available products.

Key elements of the MailMarshal anti-spam solution include:

•SpamProfiler, an antispam pre-filter that can reject spam email without unpacking and full processing.

•SpamCensor, an advanced antispam engine that can filter most spam before it enters your network.

•SpamBotCensor, an optimized application of SpamCensor that can block spam generated by botnets with even greater efficiency.

•Yara Analysis Engine (YAE), a scripted anti-malware engine to perform deep analysis of messages and attachments.

•Automatic updates for SpamProfiler, SpamCensor, and YAE, responding to the latest trends in Spam.

•Zero Day updates protecting you from significant spam and malware events.

•URLCensor, to reject email based on URLs embedded in messages that are listed on a DNS based blocklist.

•URL checking for suspect URLs using a real-time lookup against a database maintained by Trustwave.

•TextCensor, to analyze and filter inbound and outbound messages based on language content.

MailMarshal is a gateway product that can be used with any internal company email system or cloud hosted mailbox offering, including Microsoft Exchange, Office 365/Exchange Online, Lotus Domino, Sendmail, and Linux email servers. MailMarshal provides your company with the layered security solution you need to manage email content, fight spam, and transparently enforce your email Acceptable Use Policy.

Many organizations today have created policies and guidelines for the appropriate use of email, and employee education programs to deal with the torrent of spam and viruses. MailMarshal can help your company automatically apply email policy and security at the gateway, so you can once again use email safely, securely and productively.