Secure Email Gateway | What is a Secure Email Gateway?

Secure Email Gateway

Clearswift Secure Email Gateway

Clearswift's SEG not only protects against spam, viruses, and advanced threats including phishing, ransomware, and spyware, but layers on the next-gen Cloud Sandbox from Sophos. This offers machine learning to provide an additional layer of security for content or communications deemed suspicious. 

IT teams need to ensure that information being shared across email both inside and out of the organization is not only secure, but appropriate and compliant. Clearswift’s unparalleled level of inspection and granular policy controls apply the optimal security treatment to your emails in real time reducing the risk of data loss. This keeps your communications safe and flowing, without business disruptions.  

Deployment Options

  • Managed or hosted in ISO-certified data centers
  • Public cloud deployment on Microsoft, Azure, or Amazon Web Services
  • Private cloud virtual environment running VMware/Hyper V
  • Own or packaged hardware

Requirements for Deployment

A standard RHEL operating stack is required, which includes Microsoft Azure, Amazon’s AWS, or localized cloud providers. Clearswift will take care of the installation and upgrades across all platforms.

 

A Closer Look at Secure Email Gateway

What Is a Secure Email Gateway? 

A secure email gateway (SEG) is an email security solution that monitors emails coming into and out of an organization before they reach an email inbox. As the name suggests, SEG is used as a gateway for emails to protect an organization’s internal email servers from malicious content such as spam, viruses, phishing, and malware.
 

How Does a Secure Email Gateway Work?

Working alone or alongside cloud-based email application, the SEG inspects emails for malicious content including spam, viruses, and phishing – a leading email threat. If the SEG determines the email to be safe, based on policies and the latest threat protection, the email is delivered to the intended recipient. If the SEG determines the email contains malicious content, the email can be blocked, quarantined, or sanitized and delivered based on the organization’s policy.

A SEG can provide organizations with anti-virus protection, zero-hour malware detection, sensitive data redaction, and email encryption, all critical features in keeping data safe and companies compliant and protected.

Key Features of the Secure Email Gateway

Clearswift's Secure Email Gateway is mail-system agnostic, scaling from SME to Enterprises, complementing cloud-based solutions such as Office 365 and Google Workspace, or for on-premise systems such Exchange.

Inbound threat protection

Using multiple Antivirus Engines, the Secure Email Gateway provides inbound threat protection using traditional signature, heuristic, and cloud assisted lookups to deliver protection against malware, ransomware, and spyware.

Augment the AV engines with Active Code detection and an Active Code removal option or a cloud-based Sandbox to detonate the file to ensure no Zero-day threats get through.

Malicious URLs in messages and attachments can be checked using several threat feeds, which can cause the message to be blocked, the URL to be sanitized, or the URL be rewritten so that if the link is clicked the URL will be processed by a Browser Isolation solution.

Spam and phishing emails are dealt with by a multi-engine, multi-layered spam filtration system, incorporating Signature Engines with machine learning, DMARC, DKIM, SPF, IP Reputation, Greylisting and URL analysis. This provides a highly accurate and flexible approach where messages can be blocked, held, or delivered with warnings — all based on policy.
 

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Product Specifications

Deep Content Inspection Engine

Far greater than any other structural level of verification on the market, Clearswift’s Deep Content Inspection Engine scans content in a multi-stage process:

  • Identifies the file type by file signature
  • Verifies the file structure conformity
  • Extracts content that violates rules in zipped or compressed files, document body, headers, footers, or embedded objects
  • Strips metadata from documents and image files
  • Records what it removed

Secure Email Gateway for Office 365

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Secure Email Gateway for Office 365

As organizations move their email to the Cloud, deploying Clearswift alongside applications like Office 365 delivers a more comprehensive layer of protection against cyberthreats and data loss. Clearswift's Secure Email Gateway features deep content inspection that examines email headers, subject lines, body content, attachments, images, and even metadata within documents. As a result, the risk of targeted phishing attacks, embedded malware and leaks of confidential information that evade detection from Microsoft’s basic security controls are mitigated. Giving you more protection and control of internal emails lessening the risk of employees sending information not intended for all employees. Clearswift with Office 365 closes security threat gaps, protecting your organization.

Compliance

To help ensure you maintain compliance, included with Clearswift’s Secure Email Gateway are ready-to-use policies for regulations like:

Why choose Clearswift Secure Email Gateway?

Complete and Granular Control
100% Critical Data Visibility
Minimize Business Disruptions

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