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Clearswift Email Appliance

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Clearswift ApplianceWe make your organizations email system highly effective, productive and fully resilient with our content-aware email gateway.

Anti-spam and anti-malware deals with the obvious network based threats, while our content-aware MIMEsweeper policy and content inspection engine checks and uncovers the true nature of the messages and attachments flowing in and out.

Clearswift Email Appliance defines powerful, flexible and intelligent email policies that allow you exchange information preventing:


  • Sensitive data losses.
  • Breaches of human resources policies.
  • Regulatory and legal compliance breaches.
  • Brand reputation damage.
See the NEW and improved user interface HERE.

FeatureBenefit
Policy
Default policyOut of the box policies against hygiene and data loss threats.
Flexible policiesDefine advanced policies to control how email is shared, stored and distributed. Policies linked with directory servers to reduce management overhead
Centralized controlAuto-updating of policies to multiple Clearswift appliances for consistency and time saving.
Policy-based routingAutomated policy-based disposal to encryption or archiving.
Hygiene
Bi-directional malware scanningStops known and unknown malware infection with a built Kaspersky Anti-virus
TRUSTmanager™Sender reputation and connectivity filter rejects up to 80% of spam.
SpamLogic™Multi-engine anti-spam to provide at least 99.5% spam detection.
ThreatLab™ LIVEProactive threat mitigation patching against new digital attacks.
Content inspection
True binary file-type controlsAccurate identification of attachments to detect unrecognized file types.
Content-aware content inspectionPolicy control over all message content.
 Lexical and Regular expressionsBuilt-in and custom detection of common business terms including payment card industry (PCI), personally identifiable information (PII) and compliance terms.
Dictionaries suppliedAuto-updating managed lists for mutli-language profanity and editable compliance dictionaries (Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Securities and Equities Commission (SEC), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)).
Management and reporting
Web based interfaceNo requirement to learn Linux
Consistent user interface with other Clearswift productsReduce training expenses if you have a Clearswift Web Appliance as the UI shares a common look and feel
Pre-defined reportsEasy to modify, run and share reports with interactive drilldowns.
Customizable scheduled reportingAllows you to create once, run and distribute as scheduled.
Active directory (AD) and LDAP integration User based policy controls for flexible policy enforcement.
Auto-security updatingMaintains email security levels while reducing administration time.
Back-up and restoreScheduled and immediate back-ups of policy, data and logs for auditing purposes, with full or partial restoration.
Multi-appliance reportingConsolidated view of user activity for easier analysis and sharing of security and management data.
Multi-appliance quarantineConsolidated management of quarantine areas across a distributed deployment
Multi-appliance message trackingRun message tracking queries from any node in your configuration
Personal message manager - user quarantineDelegation of spam to users reducing administration and speeding up email delivery.
SNMP, SMTP and SMS (with service) alertingAllows lights-out datacenter deployment.
Deployment
Dell ApplianceBacked by worldwide field service agents to repair at your site, in the unlikely event of hardware faults
Hardened Linux operating system (OS)Independantly Penetration tested and hardened by default.
‘Soft’ appliance optionAllows you to choose the most appropriate alternative hardware platform from HP, IBM and Dell.
VMware ESX/ESXi  and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization supportEnables security and server consolidation in a choice of virtualization environments; ideal for both production and disaster recovery deployments

technical-specification

Dell hardware
Chassis Size Processor Disks Memory Raid Power supply User count
R200 1U 1x Celeron 430 80Gb SATA 1Gb No 1 <500
PE1950 1U 1 x Quad core E5405 2x 146Gb 15k RPM SAS 2Gb Yes, RAID 1 2 500+

 

Clearswift Email Appliance
Models
CSE 50 to 500 users, Dell hardware with next business day support
ENE 500+ users up to 2.6m messages per day throughput, Dell hardware with four hour business day support
VE 50+ users, for customers’ own hardware - IBM, HP and others, or VMware ESX / ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V
Scalability
All models Up to nine email appliances in one common ‘peer’ group
N+1 resilience and scalability By peering an additional support appliance 
Deployment
Getting Started Guide 7-Step deployment guide, typical deployment in less than 45 minutes
Evaluation Guide Step by step guide for evaluation of key Clearswift Email Appliance features
Key components
Operating system (OS) Penetration tested, hardened Clearswift Linux
User interface (UI) Web-based UI offering intuitive roles-based management
MIMEsweeper™ Our content aware filtering and policy management, reporting, logging and auditing engine with full lexical scanning and lexical expression building
TRUSTmanager™ Connectivity and sender reputation anti-spam filter
SpamLogic™ Multi-engine anti-spam filtering
ThreatLab™ Live Pro-active anti-spam signature updates and new malware protection
ThreatLab™ managed lists Built-in lists for screening common business terms, profanity and compliance terms 
Kaspersky anti-virus Award-winning anti-virus and malware engine consistently independently verified as one of the leading solutions

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what-people-are-saying

  • Rodney Callen
    IT Manager, Flavor Systems International

    The Email appliance is reliable, easy to maintain, and works as advertised. However, there are always issues with technology and support is needed. This is where Clearswift shines. The support team has always been prompt, professional, and had the right answers. This is the Triple Crown for support teams.

    10/10

  • Kevan Vanhoff
    Network Architect, GDAIS

    The Email Appliance has rock solid reliability and with online system and content rule updates, the overhead of running this SMTP gateway is incredibly low. The logging is excellent and provides a positive answer on what happened to every email that has been processed by the device.

    10/10

  • Ahsan Bhatti
    Team Leader Messaging, Fujitsu Australia and Newzeland

    I would strongly recommend the appliance as it is very easy to setup and configure. The interface is very user friendly and provides all the necessary features required in the mail content filtering software. The pre and post sale support is fantastic. Also the license cost is great compared with the competitors.

    10/10

  • Robert Harwood
    Systems Engineer, RBWM

    Very likely, very good product. Easy to use and requires little maintenance.

    10/10

  • Mark Loughran
    Technical Consultant, Hewlett Packard

    We have recently upgraded to MIMESweeper 5.3 and are very happy with the reliability and stability of the product.

    9/10

  • Lee Millest
    Technical Architect, Warwick District Council

    MIMEsweeper means that the appropriate technology is in place to recognise, report and act on any issues that arise in this area.

    8/10

  • Tomaž Gorjup
    , Studio Moderna d.o.o.

    We had been looking for an anti-spam solution that would effectively protect us from flooding spam, globally and selectively using various criteria. MIMEsweeper fulfilled all our expectations with additional security layer and effective email traffic analysis.

    9/10

  • Tobias Blaslbauer
    , RAMPF Holding

    MIMEsweeper is easy to manage and maintain; the spam filter is scalable and we appreciate the LDAP integration. All in all Clearswift offers a good cost/performance ratio.

    9/10

  • Rob Grandcourt
    , Sunshine Coast Regional Council

    We needed a robust, reliable, flexible and scalable solution to handle increased email volume with varied policies. Clearswift Mimesweeper Email Appliance provides the solution. We also chose to use the Mimesweeper Web Appliance, rather than other products previously in use at our sites. A simple interface and easy configuration, increased speed and better malware protection, plus the 'easy for management to ratify' concept of categories in the URL Filter allow effective policy enforcement. IT staff acceptance of the product has been very good. Both products are helping us build and maintain the high quality and agile IT infrastructure demanded by our business as it becomes one of Australia's largest and best Local Governments.

    9/10

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Clearswift Email Appliance Support

Support is included with every Clearswift appliance purchase to maintain your solutions at peak efficiency and provide immediate access to new upgrades or patches.

  • Talk to trained engineers
  • Get instant access to technical data through Knowledge Base
  • Download upgrades and patches automatically
  • Receive malware updates automatically
  • Be alerted on critical issues
  • Keep up to date with RSS feeds

Clearswift Email Appliance Training

Learn how to get the most out of your Clearswift Email Appliance in 1 day. You will be able to manage messages, configure policy, backup and recover your system and troubleshoot.

This course will prepare you for the Clearswift Email Appliance Certified Clearswift Engineer exam.

Find the most suitable course here.

product-comparison

ClearswiftIronportBarracudaMcafeeSymantec
Anti-VirusKasperskySophos, McafeeClamownown
Outbreak filtersYesYesYesYesYes
Spam Reputation filteringYesYesYesYesYes
Multi-Level Spam ChecksYesYesYesYesYes
End user spam releaseYesYesYesYesYes
Define Polices using AD/LDAPYesYesYesYesYes
Built in dictionariesYesNoYesYesNo
Detection of text/patterns in Office, PDF etcYesYesNoYesYes
Detection of files by true file typeYesYesNoYesYes
Management interface in multiple languagesYesNoYesNoNo
Support for soft appliancesYesNoNoNoYes
Clustering for resilienceYesYesYesYesYes

The information set out above is based on brief comparisons of the products listed.  In some cases the listed functionality may be available at a different specification level, price point or by the additional use of third party products or workarounds.  If you believe any content is inaccurate please let us know by e-mail.