MessageScreen

MessageScreen customers benefit from superior spam, virus, and image filtering for their SMTP-based email systems, delivered either via an appliance or hosted solution.

Quick and Easy Implementation

MessageScreen is pre-configured with over 60,000 default spam-stopping rules that can be easily customized specifically for any organization. For appliance customers, MessageScreen can reside either outside or inside the organization’s main firewall.

World Class Anti-Virus Protection

Xecuritas offers award-winning Authentium anti-virus technology to protect your corporate network. An integral part of Xecuritas’s anti-virus solution is our Real-time Pattern Analysis, a unique technology that detects emailed viruses by identifying various patterns in email outbreaks. Xecuritas’s approach provides a double layer of protection against viruses.

Flexible User Controls and End-User Quarantine

Many organizations do not implement strict anti-spam controls because of the fear of the number of help desk calls that will come from users who want a message blocked by the anti-spam filter. The Enhanced User Control feature of MessageScreen allows you to put those concerns aside and let end users determine what is considered/not considered spam for themselves.

MessageScreen allows all end users within the organization to have all or some of the following functionality:

• Manage Inbound Quarantine
• Manage Outbound Quarantine
• Release Quarantined Messages
• Delete Quarantined Messages
• Enable/Disable Filtering
• Edit Trusted Senders
• Edit Blocked Senders
• Set UCE/spam base rule level
• Set Explicit Content base rule level

Spam Summary

Email managers have the option to send a completely customized spam summary to users so that they do not need to check the quarantine. Users will never again miss an important email that has been misclassified as spam.

Test Mode

The test mode of MessageScreen allows your organization to customize and configure your settings to guarantee the highest level of spam blocking while allowing all wanted messages to pass through.

During test mode, physical messages are not quarantined or deleted. MessageScreen simply scores the message as it normally would, takes a carbon copy of the message that exceeds the UCE or Explicit Content Thresholds, and puts that carbon copy in quarantine. While in test mode, organizations can customize and adjust their spam blocking thresholds so that they guarantee the highest possible spam blocking rating. Administrators have the option of pre-pending spam classifications to suspect messages during test mode to instruct users as to what actions will be applied to similar messages in the future and to solicit feedback before going live.

Advanced Spam Analytics

Xecuritas’s unique Real-time Pattern Analysis (RPA) technology finds patterns in email outbreaks in real time. It categorizes suspect messages as definite, probable or possible spam. Because RPA does not rely on a lexical analysis of the message contents, but looks for patterns, it can identify spam in any language or format (html, text, image). False positives are near zero, particularly in person-to-person communications.

Xecuritas’s Spam Analysis Team goes beyond what 99% of other solutions provide. It analyzes messages for specific new techniques, as opposed to simply keeping a database of exact matches to mere subject lines, sender addresses, or words and phrases. MessageScreen’s rules and scoring updates are created to combat even the newest spam tactics.

MessageScreen analyzes each message on multiple levels using:

• Real-time Pattern Analysis (RPA)
• Real-time Block Lists (RBLs)
• Sender Server Verification
• Heuristic scoring
• Lexical intelligence
• Explicit content scoring and scanning for embedded images
• Attachment scanning
• Separate scanning of the header and body
• Separate settings for inbound and outbound mail
• Anti-phishing

Flexibility for Large or Small Organizations

MessageScreen can easily be configured to allow each email domain within your network to be set up as its own instance. For example, if you have 100 sub domains below the sc.com domain, those domains would be able to have complete control over the MessageScreen configuration for their respective environment. Many solutions on the market work in an all or nothing manner whereas MessageScreen offers additional granularity.

Rule and Service Updates

At Xecuritas, we pride ourselves on having the most sophisticated rule set for understanding spam in the marketplace. Xecuritas anti-spam experts constantly update this rule set. You do not have to become an anti-spam expert yourself. Many solutions on the market offer you an out of the box rule set and then expect you to keep up by writing your own rules.

Parking of Attachments

MessageScreen has the unique ability to strip attachments from an email and park them. Once an attachment is parked, the email message will continue to the end-user with a link to download their attachment directly to their workstation. This functionality is used frequently with audio, video and PowerPoint files. Parking of attachments allows you to free up bandwidth and disk space.

Scanning for Explicit Images

MessageScreen utilizes Perception-Based Image Retrieval (PBIR) to scan and filter images for pornographic content. This PBIR technology breaks an image down into over 150 parameters, much as the human brain does, and scores it based on objectionable content. It distinguishes pornographic images from legitimate art and medical photography. MessageScreen can recognize HTML graphics, attachments, embedded images, and images referenced through hyperlinks—guaranteeing at least a 95% accuracy level on image detection, which is on average 150% more accurate than any competitor.

Integration With a Storage Area Network

MessageScreen can be integrated with your existing SAN for better storage management of the quarantine.

Flexibility

The key differentiators with our product are the end-user quarantine, the flexibility of implementation and the user-friendly interface. No other product on the market combines all the features listed above into one service and easy-to-use interface, which practically eliminates the need for user training.