IronPort Solutions for K-12 Schools, Colleges, and Universities

Email is a critical tool for today's educational environments. Universities, colleges and school districts face unique challenges when it comes to email security. Whether its spam compromising productivity, or fraudulent email already penetrating campuses, email threats can have a devastating impact on networks- one that these organizations cannot afford. Email security is necessary, and needs to be implemented with sensitivity to educational institutions' requirements.

Educational organizations must evaluate solutions that will provide them with complete email security. The chosen product should be simple to use, manage and deploy. In addition to a product that is scalable and cost-effective, universities, colleges and school districts should also focus on implementing a solution that not only improves email security, but significantly boosts the efficiency of the network by incorporating preventive and reactive security measures. A comprehensive set of tools is required to proactively secure outbound messages and protect networks from all forms of malicious email-borne content including viruses, worms, and unwanted email.

Key features of a comprehensive email security solution include:

• High performance MTA platform, ensuring that email infrastructure is never overwhelmed
• Protection of email within compliance regulations, leveraging customizable content scanning and filtering for policy enforcement
• Powerful and consistent anti-spam technology, using advanced reputation filters to block unwanted messages
• Proactive virus protection, capable of preventing any major infections
• Mail flow monitoring and reporting, yielding a complete real-time view of all mail flowing through the email infrastructure
• Centralized management, allowing configurability and administration of multiple appliances from a single location

To address these issues, many universities, colleges and school districts deploy IronPort C-series email security appliances. This type of "gateway" solution is placed at the network perimeter, between the firewall and the groupware servers. By protecting email at the gateway, these organizations gain comprehensive security and unprecedented visibility into email traffic. Additionally, by saving bandwidth, avoiding network congestion, and reducing storage space requirements, these products can offer an easy to measure return on investment.

Contact an Education Specialist at IronPort for more information about how your university, college, or school district can set up a FREE evaluation and qualify for special pricing on the IronPort C-Series Email Security Appliance.