SurfControl RiskFilter

E-mail Security Appliance

Every incoming or outgoing e-mail can expose your organization to viruses, spyware and other malware, confidential data loss, regulatory violations and more. To keep your business secure in the face of rapidly evolving threats, you need visibility, control and comprehensive protection customized to your own environment and policies – without straining your IT resources.

The SurfControl RiskFilter secure messaging appliance, powered by SurfControl’s team of Global Threat Experts, offers continuous protection against inbound and outbound threats. With a hardened Linux kernel, a robust Mail Transfer Agent at its core, flexible policy setting and secure e-mail connection management, RiskFilter delivers enterprise-ready scalability and complete e-mail security with exceptional visibility and control.

Protect against e-mail threats

SurfControl RiskFilter protects organizations from inbound and outbound e-mail related threats and from malicious attacks on your e-mail infrastructure.

SurfControl threat expertise. SurfControl monitors new and emerging Internet threats around-the-clock and around-the-globe to deliver up-to-date protection against today’s blended threats; no matter how they arrive.

Secure content management. Defends against the threats posed by malicious, inappropriate or confidential information entering or leaving your organization.

E-mail connection management. Comprehensive e-mail connection management and a pre-hardened Linux operating system protects the e-mail infrastructure from assaults. Connection level reporting allows specific external threats to be readily identified, enabling the administrator to take timely and effective countermeasures.

Take control of your e-mail security

RiskFilter gives you exceptional visibility and control of e-mail usage and related threats, delivering improved network security and business compliance while reducing costs
through improved productivity and network performance.

Visibility through reporting. RiskFilter gives you the complete visibility needed to take control of e-mail usage on your network and ensure that your organization’s acceptable use policy (AUP) is being followed.

Flexible policy setting. Pre-defined rules, together with SurfControl’s intuitive, Web-based policy manager interface, deliver granular and flexible inbound and outbound policy enforcement.

Comprehensive message management. An easy to use, Web-based interface enables administrators to easily identify and take action on isolated messages. Personal E-mail Manager empowers end-users to take control of their own isolated messages.

SurfControl as your trusted security partner

SurfControl RiskFilter delivers value to customers by rapid return on investment and reduced cost of ownership.

Value through a solutions suite. SurfControl RiskFilter belongs to a suite of best-of-breed solutions delivering protection against Web, e-mail and malicious application threats at the gateway, on the client and in-the-cloud on your platform of choice – software, appliance or on-demand service.

Simplicity of an appliance solution. The RiskFilter appliance solution makes it simple to protect an organization from e-mail related threats. Pre-defined rules and point-and-click set-up wizards provide rapid, out-of-thebox protection for any e-mail platform.

Return on Investment. SurfControl RiskFilter’s high performance throughput and comprehensive Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) capabilities allow customers to consolidate their e-mail infrastructure, reducing management costs and bandwidth requirements while improving user productivity and network security.

Out-of-the box threat protection

SurfControl threat expertise. SurfControl's Global Threat Experts analyze all Internet-borne threats stemming from Web, e-mail, spyware and other malicious applications. With SurfControl RiskFilter you benefit from this unique ‘crosspollination’ protection against today’s blended threats

• Anti-Spam Agent – SurfControl’s proprietary database containing hundreds of thousands of electronic fingerprints of spam e-mails and thousands of heuristics and Boolean language rules, continually updated and customizable to your company’s own definition of spam.
• Internet Threat Database – allows e-mails to be screened for harmful links to websites containing spyware, malicious code and inappropriate content and phishing websites.
• Anti-Virus Agent – powered by McAfee, protects against virus-infected e-mails with flexible message handling options to fit your company’s own policy.

Secure content management. Secure your organization from risks associated with inappropriate, illegal, and confidential content – including threats contained in zipped
file attachments.

• Inbound and outbound protection – RiskFilter guards against threats both entering and leaving your organization.
• Custom risk protection – whitelists and blacklists let you determine who you do and do not want to receive e-mail from.
• E-mail encryption – integrated Transport Layer Security (TLS) support protects your sensitive business and customer information.

E-mail connection management. Add an extra layer of protection against unwanted e-mails by dropping connections from untrustworthy and malicious sources before e-mail is even filtered.

• Denial of service protection – guard against attempts to stop your e-mail network from functioning.
• Directory harvest protection – prevent spammers from ‘harvesting’ your organization’s e-mail addresses.
• Closed relay – protect against hackers and spammers using your mail servers to send messages.
• Reverse DNS lookup and Sender Policy Framework(SPF) – provide further protection against spoofing.
• Real-time Blackhole List (RBL) – supports multiple RBLs from third party RBL services and blocks messages sent from ‘open relay’ servers.
• Connection level reporting – allows administrators to rapidly identify specific external threats and take effective countermeasures.

Connection management protection

• Denial of service protection
• Directory harvest attack protection
• Protected domain closed relay
• Reverse DNS lookup and SPF authentication for
• spoofed e-mail protection
• Support for Real-time Black Lists
• Defined trusted IPs for protection against spammers
• Blacklists & whitelists
• SMTP greeting delay
• Gateway-to-gateway encryption (TLS)

Policy level protection:

• Inbound and outbound filtering
• Pre-defined and custom filtering rules
• Anti-spam protection
• Anti-virus protection
• Confidential information management
• Offensive content management
• Message attachment management

Comprehensive reporting:

• Dashboard level reporting
• Drill-down reporting capability
• Pre-defined, customizable reports
• Remote access via web-based interface

SurfControl - Raising the level of protection

SurfControl’s global reach, financial strength and dedicated focus on providing Internet and e-mail security solutions positions us as the trusted security partner with our customers. We have been providing secure content management solutions since 1997 and we have many thousands of satisfied clients across the world. This allows us to build future solutions based on the known demands of our customer base.