An Introduction to IronPort and its Line of Products

Hi in this post we introduce you one of the widely used and trusted Email Security Appliance- Ironport from CISCO. In this and coming posts we'll be using the Ironport C600 Appliance(Email Security) and its GUI.


Introduction:

Following are the IronPort appliances & Services available

So lets see the Email Security appliance(C-Series):

Specifications:

The mail flow for IRONPORT C600 i.e an E Mail Security Appliance is as shown below:

IronPort Features:

The IronPort C360 contains a powerful multi-layered approach to email security – providing advanced threat prevention, blocking spam and viruses, and enabling corporate data loss prevention and remediation.

Spam Protection

IronPort Reputation Filters

The IronPort Spam Quarantine

IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters

Sophos Anti-Virus

Integrated Compliance Filters

IronPort Email Encryption

Email Authentication

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and DomainKeys verification and signing digitally process messages to establish and protect identities with email senders and receivers on the Internet.

IronPort Bounce Verification tags messages with a digital watermark to provide filtering of bounce attacks at the network edge.

Directory Harvest Attack Prevention tracks spammers who send to invalid recipients and blocks attempts to steal email directory information.


Source: Ironport Store