IronPort Solutions for Telco/Service Providers

IronPort's Email Security Appliances are in production at 8 of the 10 largest ISPs in the world. These ISPs rely on IronPort to be their outer layer of defense because the IronPort platform, AsyncOS, can process messages 10x more efficiently than traditional UNIX based mail servers. Additionally, IronPort's Reputation Filtering increases system throughput up to 300%, and is powerful enough to stop incoming as well as outgoing spam. The IronPort C-Series™ email security appliance addresses the issues faced by financial service companies large and small by incorporating preventive and reactive security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.

Key features of a comprehensive email security solution include:

Reputation-Based Mail Flow Control

The IronPort C650 email security appliance allows ISP's to divide email senders into unique categories (by IP address, domain name or sender reputation) and allows blocking or specific message-based rate limit thresholds for each sender. Rate limiting acts as a highly tuned throttle for mail volume, and when a throttle limit is exceeded the IronPort C650 will temporarily reject more mail from that sender.

IronPort Reputation Filtering™ allows email administrators to sort email senders based on the quality of mail they send—restrictive policies for spammers and more liberal policies to legitimate senders. For many ISPs, who see upwards of 100 million messages a day, the IronPort C650 stops up to 75% at the perimeter. This translates into the highest performance available, greater accuracy and huge cost savings. The system is so sensitive that it allows large ISPs to identify computer zombie behavior originating within their network and to rate limit or block infected PCs that are sending spam. By blocking spam at the connection level for email receivers and also rate limiting zombies at ISPs that are sending spam, IronPort is delivering a two-pronged attack on spam.

Enterprise Management Tools

On top of this carrier-grade platform, IronPort has developed sophisticated management tools that allow email administrators to control a global deployment. Centralized reporting, cluster management, and IronPort's unique Email Security Monitor and Email Security Manager makes complex administration tasks become easy. This powerful combination of performance and features is why IronPort is deployed at 6 of the 10 largest technology companies and 5 of the 10 largest media companies in the world.

Contact a Telecom & ISP specialist at IronPort for more information about how you can set up a FREE evaluation and qualify for special pricing on the IronPort C-Series Email Security Appliance