Clearswift MIMEsweeper for SMTP is a trusted email security solution that will keep communications flowing freely throughout your company. Providing strong protection against spam, malware and data leaks. Clearswift MIMEsweeper for SMTP is highly customisable making it ideal for even the most complex organisations, where multi-layered defences call for maximum flexibility.

Email compliance policies

Control how email is shared, stored and distributed as well as permitted email routing and payloads, with full monitoring and message audit trails.

Flexible policy application

Configure policy rules and thresholds as needed by department, location, user group, sender, recipient, file-type, file size, time of day, or even by individual user. Policy is automatically applied as prescribed including blocking, quarantining, forwarding, deleting, transforming, archiving or encryption.

Multi-language usage controls

Control profanity or harassment in email with multi-language dictionary support through ThreatLab managed lists.

Optimized email flows

Optimize email processing based on senders domain

Policy control over internal email traffic

Optional MS Exchange interceptor ensures all internal mail is scanned for malware and policy violations (with EXCHANGEmanager)

Roles-based management and workflow

Roles base management allows delegated control of valuable or sensitive information violations according to severity or type.

At least 99.5% spam detection

TRUSTmanager connectivity and reputation service plus SpamLogic consistently detects at least 99.5% of spam (with the Edge server)

Directory server validation

by harvesting corporate directories, checks can be made to ensure that email is only permitted to existing users

Strip HTML code from email

Ensure that any email arriving is free from potential malware

Detect malformed messages/attachments

malformed messages/attachments could be trying to circumvent security or activate some exploit code

Choice of anti-virus vendor

Kaspersky option for the Edge-Server or approved versions of Authentium, Avira, Command, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Norman, Sophos and Symantec for Policy-Server deployment - other anti-virus vendors via command line integration.

True binary file type controls

Binary file type identification and full message decomposition ensures no hiding of files or information. File recognition includes archiving, streaming media and hundreds of other common file types with analysis of source, type and bandwidth consumption. Unrecognized files can be blocked then quarantined or deleted, according to security policy.

Block file by custom byte patterns

for custom files and homegrown applications the power to detect and control files

Attachment control

Ability to permit, strip or compress attachments based on sender, recipient and size of attachment 

Image processing option

Detect pornographic or registered business images that should be controlled

Regular expressions

Built-in and custom detection of common business terms including payment card industry (PCI), personally identifiable information (PII) and compliance terms.

Managed lists and customizable dictionaries

Auto-updating managed lists for mutli-language profanity and editable compliance dictionaries (Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Securities and Equities Commission (SEC), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)).

Open APIs for policy extensibility

Allows customers to extend capabilitiies for content scanning

Sensitive information detection

Integrates with CONTENTsafe for proactive protection and detection of sensitive information

Automated security updating

The Edge-Server is automatically updated at 15 minute intervals ensuring optimum security.

Back-up and restore

Comprehensive back-up and restore features in case of server or system failures.

Comprehensive reporting

Easily customized report templates provided. Select the report frequency and circulation list for easy dispatch to human resources, department heads, audit, compliance, etc.

Personal message manager - user quarantine

Delegation of individual user email quarantines to minimize quarantine administration and speed up message release. User based message tracking within the PMM (advanced or enterprise licence versions). PMM multi-language interface permits end users to select one of 13 different end user languages.

ThreatLab™ LIVE active protection system

Our pro-active managed list provide protection against spam, viruses and other forms of digital attack offers automated threat mitigation and patching.

TLS encryption

Provided by the Edge-Server for easily implemented gateway to gateway email traffic encryption.

Exceptional scalability and gateway consolidation

Scales to 100,000+ users and its architecture makes it easy to consolidate and manage multiple email gateways.

Highly secure and efficient security architecture

By deploying an email firewall (the Edge-Server) within the firewall DMZ other email infrastructure may be positioned within the 'safe' network and spam removed at the network edge to ensure optimal email server performance and spam-free archive storage.

Reliability

Resilient by design solution used by many of the world’s largest organizations who demand the highest standards for their business critical email security infrastructure.

Flexible multi-domain administration

Multiple administrators may manage messages at one time with visibility restricted by domain and support for up to 1,200 individual domains.

Platform support

Supported on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 server either on dedicated hardware or in a VMware ESX/ESXi virtualized environment.