Secure Data Anywhere with
www.sipartners.com.au
Quick Links
Who is MessageLabs?
MessageLabs has specifically designed Converged Threat Analysis (CTA). An innovative concept in messaging and web security, specifically designed to combat a new, growing and potentially serious breed of security threats.
CTA represents an effective, proactive solution to the emergence of threats that are not specific to email, web or IM environments. These threats merge together and mix and match virus, spyware, phishing, spam and other techniques across protocols in ingenious ways to disrupt corporate networks and access confidential information.
Pioneered by MessageLabs and unique to the solutions we provide, CTA involves analyzing threats across all protocols to see if techniques are being shared or combined to create a single threat. Underpinning CTA is:
- The linking of every individual detection and filtering mechanism that MessageLabs employs.
- The automatic sharing of knowledge gained in one protocol across all other protocols.
To take just one example, CTA provides an essential line of defense against potentially damaging ‘link spam’ emails. These emails contain hyperlinks to websites that automatically download malware, the ultimate target being the web browser. However, MessageLabs tracks and blocks link spam threats through our unique link-following capability, which checks all URLs in emails and identifies any malware they may contain.
The application of such leading-edge techniques, including Skeptic™, represents the foundation of our revolutionary CTA capability.
Converged and merging threats represent a new front line in the war against malware.
What does MessageLabs provide?
Email Protection
Protecting customers and employees, safeguarding data, and defending your network, brand and reputation, MessageLabs email solutions stop malware and spam, block inappropriate content, prevent misuse, and guarantee email privacy.
IM Protection
Delivering immunity from IM-related threats, such as malware, SPIM, regulatory non-compliance and IM misuse, MessageLabs provides fully encrypted networks that unlock IM’s potential as an efficient real-time business communication medium.
Web Protection
Safeguarding your business against web-borne malware, web misuse and offensive content, MessageLabs unique multi-layered technology and URL filtering capability deliver benchmark protection against web threats and all associated risks.
Archiving Protection
Ensuring regulatory compliance, while aiding legal discovery and guaranteeing easier email storage and retrieval, MessageLabs offers a secure, encrypted archiving solution that you control but which eliminates the need for in-house management and storage capacity.
How does MessageLabs work?
Skeptic™
Constantly evolving and continually updated, Skeptic™ is a unique technology ecosystem that delivers phenomenal predictive threat detection and protection capability. Skeptic™ is our proprietary technology ecosystem that represents a unique but essential component in the anti-malware defenses we deploy on our clients’ behalf.
Predictive and proactive, Skeptic™ delivers unrivalled zero-hour protection from even the most sophisticated and targeted security threats, monitoring, tracking and blocking them at the internet level, well away from your network.
Skeptic™ achieves its remarkable results by harnessing heuristics and a wide range of other leading-edge techniques to scan and assess billions of electronic communications every week. Crucially:
- Skeptic™ learns from every single message it scans, using this information to update itself automatically and further enhance its phenomenal threat detection capability
- Skeptic™ reacts instinctively and immediately to any new threat, even from previously unknown sources, and so specializes in nullifying emerging threats that evade other vendors’ security solutions.
MessageLabs first introduced Skeptic™ in 1999 as an anti-virus technology and we’ve been investing in and improving it ever since.
Today, it comprises a total ecosystem encompassing a suite of technologies that enable us to provide unbeatable protection against ‘conventional’ threats, and to offer innovative and agenda-setting Converged Threat Analysis capability.
Global Infrastructure
With our hugely powerful network and 14 data centers in four continents, MessageLabs offers you genuine global vision and worldwide reach, backed by industry-leading technical support capabilities.
Currently located in the US, the UK, Australia, Germany, Hong Kong and the Netherlands, these centers give our services a genuinely global dimension – but with all the immediacy, responsiveness and levels of technical support you would expect from a local service.
We are confident that our network is the most advanced and stable in the world today. MessageLabs has made, and continues to make, massive investments in our dynamic, multi-million-dollar global platform.
Providing huge processing power, this platform includes over 1,500 dedicated mail servers, complemented by a global client care team and 24/7 multilingual support capability.
- Every data center is scalable, secured to the highest standards and densely populated with high-performance servers
- Every data center is continually monitored by our strategically located Network Operations Centers
- Every server cluster housed in our data centers has full redundancy within itself, and all other hardware is duplicated
- Load balancing is implemented both within individual data centers and across our network of data centers as a whole
- Client support is available on a year-round and round-the-clock basis via phone, email and web in all major languages and dialects
- Our infrastructure is backed up with outstanding Service Level Agreements covering service availability, email latency and fault response
Converged Threat Analysis
Pioneered by MessageLabs, CTA raises the bar in malware protection by sharing threat data gained in email, web and IM, and defending against merging and converging threats. Real Benefits:
- Guaranteed non-stop availability of MessageLabs services, even during major malware outbreaks and activity peaks, maximizing your protection from messaging and web threats
- Complete fallover protection, giving you total confidence in the continuity of MessageLabs services
- No electronic communications can pass through or by-pass our infrastructure without being scanned according to the particular configuration you require
- No noticeable delay in email receipt, even during peak periods, ensuring you complete confidence in your electronic business communications
- Continuous monitoring of your systems and procedures by MessageLabs, plus seamless, consistent and tailored support, regardless of your location
Why Invest in MessageLabs?
Skeptic™ - Distinctive Features, Definite Benefits
- Skeptic™ lies at the core of the services MessageLabs provides. It is able to deliver unmatched ability in the detection of viruses, Trojans, spam and phishing, plus proven superiority over other security solutions, because Skeptic™ does not just rely on one or a few detection techniques. Skeptic™ incorporates our proprietary signaturing system, a ‘reputation database’ collating information about message sources, and network layer techniques that detect threats earlier during scanning.
- Skeptic™’s effectiveness increases, the greater the volume and diversity of traffic that it scans.
- Threat data collected by Skeptic™ is shared globally across our network in real time.
- Skeptic™ enables MessageLabs to offer unique protection against positively identified viral URL links within emails.
Features like these result in direct, tangible business benefits for our clients. Efficiency, productivity, data confidentiality and legal compliance are all enhanced.
Converged Threat Analysis (CTA) - Fixed on the Future
Key to CTA’s ongoing effectiveness will be our ability to predict and foresee dangers. We are, for example, keenly aware that IM and also VoIP could represent increasingly potent delivery channels for converged and merging threats in the future.
We are therefore prioritizing the relentless enhancement of our threat detection capabilities in these and other fields, ensuring that CTA continues to set the agenda and provide our clients with protection levels unmatched by any other security vendor.
The ability to think ahead is essential to success in the messaging and web security industry. We are completely committed to continue evolving and expanding our unique global infrastructure so that it not only responds to new challenges but also stays at least a step ahead into the future.
Learn More About... Managed Email Anti-Spam Filter Service
MessageLabs industry leading Email Anti-Spam Service provides you with a proven spam filtering solution that prevents spam from reaching your network. Our multi-layered, internet-level spam filter protection service blocks spam, removing email spam threats and improving your team’s productivity.
Why use our managed Email Anti-Spam filter service?
Our managed email spam filter service guarantees to stop over 99% of spam without affecting the flow of legitimate email. It requires no hardware or software purchases, no installation, ongoing upgrades or maintenance. MessageLabs managed email spam filter service can be deployed in minutes and is easily configurable to ensure corporate policies are enforced
Anti-Spam Features Email Anti-Spam Benefits
- Guaranteed industry-leading spam capture rates Spam prevention – spam free inboxes, happier end users.
- Guaranteed industry-leading email spam filter accuracy rates. Confidence in the spam filter service to block and delete spam at the internet layer; no time wasted with quarantining and reviewing spam.
- Multi-layered internet-level spam protection Spam filtering eliminates bandwidth, processing and storage costs; no need for hardware or software purchases.
- Complete control retained on email filtering Full visibility of email flow and control.
- World class spam filter reporting system. Fully customizable management style and detailed reports at your finger-tips; certainty in the service’s effectiveness.
- Internet layer, 24x7x365 managed email security Expert spam filtering management and support. Lets you focus on running your business productively
Learn More About... Managed Email Anti-Virus Protection Service
MessageLabs managed Email Anti-Virus Service provides your business with 100% protection from viruses, phishing, Trojans, worms and other forms of malware. Our multi-layered, virus protection stops viruses before they reach your network ensuring you avoid costs like system downtime and data loss.
Why use our Email Anti-Virus protection service?
Our managed Email Anti-Virus Service is the only online solution in the world that guarantees to block 100% of all email viruses. It also requires no hardware or software purchases, ongoing upgrades or maintenance. With our managed Anti-Virus Service it’s fast and easy to setup and you simply pay a monthly usage fee.
Anti-Virus Features Anti-Virus Benefits
- Guaranteed industry-leading virus protection against all known and unknown viruses. Peace of mind that you network will never be infected by an email virus; no need to quarantine “risky files”.
- Link Following capability that checks all URLs contained in emails for malware Detects malware contained in weblinks, delivering improved network safety and integrity.
- Complete control retained on email filtering Full visibility and management of email flow and control.
- World class virus protection reporting system. Fully customizable management portal and detailed virus reports at your finger-tips; certainty in the virus protection service’s effectiveness Internet layer, 24x7x365 managed email security. Expert virus protection management and support allows you to focus on running your business productively