Vendors lock down e-mail

NetIQ and CipherTrust this week are rolling out new messaging security products designed to shield networks from spam and help enforce regulatory compliance efforts.

NetIQ on Monday updated its Marshal Content Security line of products for e-mail and Web protection. MailMarshal SMTP 6.0, the company’s server-based e-mail security product, gains new spam management tools designed to allow end-users to manage their e-mail. Users receive a scheduled e-mail summary report of blocked messages and can access blocked mail through a Web-based console, according to NetIQ officials.

MailMarshal SMTP 6.0 helps control content entering and exiting the network, said Jim McGrath, NetIQ’s senior director of product management.

“It intercepts all mail streams incoming and outgoing, [and] can scan for viruses and categorize incoming e-mail,” McGrath said. “Malicious spam and illicit content can be filtered out altogether.”

NetIQ also rolled out Version 5.1 of MailMarshal for Exchange, featuring an advanced spam-detection engine; and Version 3.6 of NetIQ WebMarshal, with a new integrated URL blacklist that blocks selected Web sites.

CipherTrust, meanwhile, announced its IPA (IronMail Privacy Architecture), which adds new encryption functionality to the company’s messaging security offering to ensure that messages are not tampered with or exposed during transit. Encryption and privacy capabilities for e-mail are becoming critical to compliance efforts and to prevention of intellectual property theft.

CipherTrust said that it also partnered with encryption vendors PostX and Voltage for desktop-to-desktop encryption and identity-based encryption, respectively.