Spam Firewall Features

Email has undoubtedly become a key tool for communications among companies worldwide. With frequent virus attacks and the alarming rate that spam fills inboxes, email is quickly becoming a less efficient means of communication. In fact, the Radicati Group, a market research firm in Palo Alto, California, predicts that by 2009, there will be 228 billion spam messages each day, representing the vast majority of email traffic on the Internet. This is simply astounding and unacceptable. It's time to take control of spam. The WebWize Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution that has the power of an enterprise-class solution, and the ease-of-use and affordability that businesses of all sizes demand. The WebWize Spam Firewall includes all the features needed to eliminate your spam and completely protect your email server from all forms of attack. Email may be blocked, quarantined, tagged, or delivered based on the policies of the organization or the preferences of the individual user. Some of the key features and benefits of the WebWize Spam Firewall are listed below.

Protection Against Email-borne Threats

The WebWize Spam Firewall provides comprehensive protection against the most current email-borne threats that can cripple your network if left unprotected. With our proprietary twelve-layer defense system, the WebWize Spam Firewall optimizes performance of your email server while utilizing the following protections:

• Anti-spam.
The algorithms and methods used by the WebWize Spam Firewall are the most comprehensive and most advanced in the industry at detecting and filtering spam resulting in the lowest rate of false positives.


• Anti-virus.
By utilizing dual layer virus blocking, decompression of archives and file type blocking, the anti-virus engine in the WebWize Spam Firewall provides complete virus protection.


• Anti-spoofing.
This technology prevents the use of forged or "spoofed" sender addresses on unsolicited email. The anti-spoofing feature also allows larger organizations to specify a list of IP addresses that are allowed to have a "From" address that appears from inside the organization to support multiple sites and multiple email servers.


• Anti-phishing.
The WebWize Spam Firewall provides robust protection against phishing schemes which are often used to gather confidential information about an organization or its individual users.


• Anti-spyware.
(Attachments) - All attachments are scanned and any spyware executables are detected and eliminated immediately.
Denial of Service Protection. Rate controls are utilized to stop denial of service attacks as well as dictionary based spam attacks. These rate control systems are integrated and automatic in the WebWize Spam Firewall.

End-user Control Features

The WebWize Spam Firewall contains numerous end-user features that allow for individual tuning and greatly enhance the accuracy of our spam filtering.

• User based filtering.
The WebWize Spam Firewall can be configured to set spam policies by the end-user on an individualized basis or on a global corporate level.


• Individual Spam Scoring.
The individual spam scoring feature allows end-users to set their individual thresholds for spam tolerance providing personalized control over spam policies.


• Personal Allow and Block Lists.
The WebWize Spam Firewall can be configured to allow end-users to have control over their individual allow and block lists which further reduces the chance of false positives.


• End-User Quarantine.
The WebWize Spam Firewall provides the ability to setup quarantine mailboxes where users can direct questionable email for later review. This greatly reduces the support load for large organizations.


• Digest Emails.
A daily email is sent to all end-users with a quarantine account summarizing the contents of their individual quarantine mailboxes.


• Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes Integration.
WebWize provides a software plug-in for both Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes end-users. With this tool, users can classify messages as spam or not spam in order to fine-tune the filtering and further eliminate any chance of false positives.