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GFI MailEssentials: Enabling Robust Protection against sophisticated email threats

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When a prominent Internet communication services provider in 2014 declared that some of its users' e-mail accounts have been targeted in a security breach, it created a huge conundrum among its users and partners. The company had announced that a third party database with shared credentials was likely the source however, they had no evidence of which usernames and passwords have been taken from their systems. This is just one instance out of several others that can attest of the vulnerability of email.

More broadly, the last couple of years have seen a significant spike in the theft of passwords (or their hashed or encrypted representations) from email services as cyber criminals moved beyond financial information as their sole form of profit. Cybercriminals are increasingly becoming more sophisticated at stealing critical information or disrupting network operations. They try to inject malware into attachments, and as a result the employee unwittingly breaches the business network when the malware injected attachments are opened. Given the dependence on email for everyday communications and cybercriminals' confidence on it as an attack vector, email security defences have become more important than ever. To fight the invasion of cyber threats and protect organizations’ network from email borne threats, ComGuard headquartered at Dubai, leverages comprehensive email security solutions namely GFI MailEssentials. “GFI MailEssentials has been at the forefront of email filtering and email security for many years and our product has been proactively honed to respond to new email-borne threats”, says Ajay Singh Chauhan, CEO, ComGuard.

Overcoming biggest Threats to email security
With its five leading AV engines (such as Bitdefender, Kaspersky, McAfee, Avira and VIPRE) and 14 email antispam technologies GFI MailEssentials stops over 99 Percent of spam directly on the server, before reaching the end-user. As the majority of spoofing and phishing scams are carried through spam, Apart from overcoming threats including spam, spoofing, and phishing attacks with its rich feature set, this solution has received many prestigious awards including VBSpam+, MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice, Network Computing Awards, Computer Security Awards and many more. While staying abreast with the major breakthroughs in the networking and security front, Comguard’s team of experienced security researchers proactively monitor for security threats and test out issues in quarantined environments. This enables the team to come up with solutions to efficiently prevent infections, rather than cure outbreaks. “In addition, we remain engaged with our partners and customers by regularly announcing security news, whitepapers press releases over a plethora of media including our very popular GFI news section and blog”, says Ajay

There are thousands of pieces of malware, each with its own mode of attack. It is a well-known fact that viruses, trojan horses, worms, spam and other forms of malware present a real threat to all modern-day organizations and any infections will affect productivity, business operations and business reputation negatively. However, by using GFI MailEssentials and its multiple anti-malware scanners approach provides high availability email protection against the constant, dynamic and rapidly changing email borne threats.

Furthermore, GFI MailEssentials ships with advanced user-based filtering rules which enable flexible and granular filtering of any part of the email message - including message headers, subject, body, attachment name and attachment content using different types of pattern matching methods, including regular expressions. GFIMailEssentials comes with extended email management functionality and value added features including List Server, Disclaimers, Search folders, Auto replies, Connectors for Microsoft Outlook users (SpamTag) and many more.

The Road Ahead
With each passing day, customers demand new rich features in their security solutions to overcome new, smarter threats. To answer for that GFI is focused to continue strengthening their products and solutions whilst also enabling higher throughput for local and private cloud environments dealing with higher volume email processing. “Enhancements include back-end services engine updates for x64 bit enabling even more scalability for centralized quarantine and reporting”, adds Ajay. The company is also looking at introducing remote Active Directory support enabling user synchronization and authentication with AD environments external to the environment on which GFI MailEssentials is installed. With such future plans targeted towards network security, ComGuard certainly has got all the ingredients to take on the security challenges revolving around networks today.

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