e-Sweeper Product Information

Introduction
e-Sweeper is a Content Security solution for SMTP e-mail. This guide gives advice on how e-Sweeper is positioned in relation to other network security products such as anti-virus tools and other managed services. Answers to typical FAQ's are also given.

Product Overview – So what Does it Do?
e-Sweeper is a member of the industry-leading MIMEsweeper family of technologies from Baltimore Technologies, designed to stop content-based threats BEFORE they arrive on the network. Today there are over 6000 international customers and 6 million network users protected by MIMEsweeper products.

Depending on Service Level, e-Sweeper protects a user’s e-mail stream against Content Threats.

More than just anti-virus
e-Sweeper enables a Service Provider to offer a much broader spectrum of Content Protection spanning:

• control of attachments including
  
• executables
  
• documents
  
• images
  
• videos
  
• spam blocking
  
• inappropriate language blocking
  
• detection of unauthorized encryption.

Not All Service Providers are the Same
Many Service Providers offer a simple anti-virus service to their users, however Content Security covers a multitude of threats. They can originate internally or externally. They can be maliciously intentional or wholly accidental. They can devastate the physical network or leave the network unharmed but be disastrous for an organization’s commercial well being.

For Internet traffic we can broadly break content threats into two main categories:
Firstly, there’s e-mail Content Security, which is about:

• stopping leakage via e-mail of confidential information
  
• managing legal liability for employees’ e-mail usage
  
• filtering out offensive or inappropriate e-mails
  
• blocking junk e-mail
  
• preventing loss or corruption of data and service, such as through viruses in e-mails or transfer of oversize files

Benefits
e-Sweeper is all about helping organizations –and to a lesser extent, individuals - implement their information security policy. At an SME the IT or IS department is always involved, but don’t forget the other departments outside the technical arena who will take part in defining the policy.

Typical users might include:

• somebody who employs anti-virus product at the desktop, perhaps has a firewall installed and an established network security policy
  
• somebody responsible for human resources or legal liability who needs to ensure against costly consequences of Internet misuse
  
• somebody who has been told by management to ‘get on the Internet’ and employ security mechanisms to secure their network
  
• a network or security specialist who must secure their network to fulfill existing security policies

Product Positioning
Content Security is often portrayed as the prevention of virus infection. Acceptance of this simplistic view is at best misguided, at worst dangerous.

e-Sweeper, based on the MIMEsweeper Content Security engine, affords protection to the business and consumer users of a Service Provider.

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