IronPort Technology and Features

Great companies are often defined not by what they do, but what they don't do. IronPort has been successful because of its laser focus on unique technologies such as SenderBase® and AsyncOS™. To complement these unique technologies, IronPort has developed the strongest partnerships in the industry. This combination of proprietary technology and best-of-breed partnerships allows IronPort to deliver on the vision of total messaging security as quickly and efficiently as possible.

IronPort Reputation Filters™

As the first line of defense on the IronPort email security appliances, Reputation Filters dispose of up to 80% of incoming spam at the connection level - saving bandwidth, conserving system resources and yielding the highest levels of security for critical messaging systems. More

IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters™

Integrated into IronPort's C-Series™ and X-Series™ mail security appliances, IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters perform a threat assessment of inbound and outbound messages, and quarantine suspicious messages temporarily. Messages are automatically released once signatures from traditional anti-virus vendors are deployed. More

IronPort Anti-Spam™

As threat writers use constantly evolving techniques to penetrate companies' existing defenses, email threats have expanded beyond simple nuisance spam. IronPort Anti-Spam combines best-of-breed conventional techniques with IronPort's breakthrough context-sensitive detection technology, to eliminate the broadest range of known and emerging email threats. More

Sophos Anti-Virus

IronPort addresses ever increasing virus threats by offering integrated signature-based virus filtering at the gateway through Sophos. An industry leader in anti-virus filtering, Sophos offers consolidated protection against multiple malware threats such as viruses, worms and Trojans. With the highest performance virus scanning technology in the industry and unique denial of service prevention, Sophos anti-virus technology provides a fully integrated layer of virus protection on IronPort's email security appliances. More

IronPort Compliance Solutions

For email administrators working to ensure regulatory compliance, IronPort's email security appliances provide a powerful and flexible infrastructure for policy enforcement. The IronPort appliances protect internal servers from attacks, and enable organizations to comply with HIPAA, GLB, SOX and other regulatory compliance laws by applying filtering, encryption and archiving policies on incoming and/or outgoing messages. More

IronPort's SenderBase Network

SenderBase is the world's first and largest email traffic monitoring service. SenderBase collects data from more than 100,000 ISPs, universities and corporations around the world. SenderBase measures more than 120 different parameters for any email server on the Internet. This massive database receives more than five billion queries per day, with real-time data streaming in from every continent and network providers large and small. SenderBase has the most accurate view of the sending patterns of any given mail sender because of the size of the database, and conversely the database has remained the world's largest because of the accuracy of the data. IronPort licenses SenderBase data to the open-source community and other institutions that are participating in the fight against spam. More

Uniquely Powered by AsyncOS

All IronPort email security appliances are powered by IronPort's proprietary operating system - AsyncOS. AsyncOS has a unique stackless threading model that allows each appliance to support more than 10,000 simultaneous connections. Founded on a rock-solid UNIX-based kernel, stripped of all non-essential components, AsyncOS is also built for security - ensuring that hackers can't take advantage of your systems. More