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The World's First Virtual Appliance for Enterprise Messaging Security

The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway™ Virtual Edition offers all of the same anti-spam, anti-virus, secure messaging, data privacy and intellectual property leak prevention features found in Proofpoint's physical appliances in an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance for VMware's virtualization products. It combines a robust, enterprise-class MTA with perimeter security, anti-spam, anti-virus, secure messaging and outbound content security capabilities in an easy-to-deploy, virtual appliance.

The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Edition delivers the same best-in-class protection as Proofpoint's hardware appliances, combined with the many benefits of virtualization - including cost savings, rapid deployment and provisioning, simplified change management and easy backup and disaster recovery:

Secures your network against spam, known and emerging viruses, connection-level attacks and hackers - right at the gateway.
Proofpoint MLX™ machine learning technology provides unrivalled anti-spam effectiveness and content filtering accuracy.
Protects your enterprise from liability created by incompliant or offensive emails.
Protects the privacy and security of customer and employee data.
Protects valuable intellectual property and trade secrets.
Deploys in just minutes by simply loading into your VMware environment, including VMware Player, VMware Workstation, VMware Server or VMware Infrastructure.
Supports encrypted email via TLS, optional Proofpoint Secure Messaging module or popular third-party secure messaging systems.
High-performance MTA proven in the most demanding enterprise email infrastructures.
Hardened and vulnerability-tested appliance exceeds enterprise and government security requirements.
Integrates with enterprise identity management systems such as Active Directory, Domino Directory and other LDAP sources.
Intelligent perimeter security features such as MLX Dynamic Reputation™ and SMTP rate control protect against malicious connections including Denial-of-Service and Directory Harvest Attacks.
A true "zero administration" solution with unified policy management and robust reporting features.

Modular Defenses for All-in-One Messaging Security
Why purchase yet another point solution? Proofpoint's messaging security platform provides comprehensive defense against both inbound and outbound messaging threats - and Proofpoint's modular architecture lets you easily deploy new defenses as your needs change. Modular defenses include:

Proofpoint Spam Detection offers complete defense against spam, adult content and phishing attacks. Proofpoint MLX machine learning technology delivers unrivalled accuracy with the lowest rate of false positives.
Proofpoint Virus Protection defends your enterprisee form email-born viruses, worms and trojans, powered by the world's leading anti-virus engines.
Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus protects against emerging viruses in the earliest stages of their proliferation on the internet - hours before competing solutions even begin to react.
Proofpoint Content Compliance allows you to define and enforce acceptable use policies for message content and attachments across your entire enterprise.
Proofpoint Digital Asset Security keeps your company's valuable assets and confidential information from leaking outside the organization via email.
Proofpoint Regulatory Compliance protects private data and helps your organization comply with privacy and data protection regulations such as HIPAA and GLBA.
Proofpoint Secure Messaging adds powerful, policy-based encryption capabilities to your Proofpoint deloyment, making ad hoc, secure communication just as easy as traditional, non-encrypted messaging.

Complete Perimeter Security - Proofpoint Email Firewall
The integrated Proofpoint Email Firewall provides the SMTP-level, perimeter security features demanded by today's enterprise, creating an impenetrable shield around your messaging systems.

Defend: Defends your enterprise against Denial of Service, Dictionary Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks and other intrusions, protecting your network and users.
Detect: Proofpoint's MLX Dynamic Reputation™ technology constantly monitors connections and identifies all types of malicious activity.
Control: SMTP traffic control features work together with MLX Dynamic Reputation to take corrective action, blocking or throttling harmful connections.

Read more about the Proofpoint Email Firewall

Secure Messaging and Authentication
The Proofpoint Secure Messaging module adds powerful, content-aware encryption capabilities to your Proofpoint deployment, automatically encrypting messages based on your organization's policies. The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway also supports digital certificates and enables gateway-to-gateway secure transfer and receipt of email using Transport Layer Security (TLS). Sensitive information can easily be encrypted for specific domains or business partners, or in response to regulatory compliance and data privacy concerns.

Virtual Appliance Benefits both Production and Lab Deployments
The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Edition is ideal for enterprises that have adopted or are moving to the VMware environment. All of the benefits of virtualization can be realized with Proofpoint's virtual appliance including:

Cost savings related to infrastructure simplification: Reduced hardware, power, cooling, and space requirements.
Reliability, backup and disaster recovery: Snapshots of an entire environment can be easily taken and restored at any time leveraging VMware's infrastructure management tools.
Deployment and scalability: New virtual servers can be rapidly deployed on existing hardware. Proofpoint's optimal horizontal scalability architecture allows new virtual appliances to be provisioned in minutes to address changing email requirements. Any number of virtual agent appliances can be deployed at zero incremental cost.
Change management: New versions and configuration changes can be tested in a zero-risk environment using a snapshot of the production environment.

Customers of Proofpoint's software (Proofpoint Protection Server) and hardware appliance (Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway) versions can deploy the Virtual Edition appliance in lab or test environments free of charge. New virtual test environments can be quickly brought up or taken down on an as-needed basis.

Centralized Adminsitration, Complete End-user Control
The Proofpoint Messaging Security Console provides a convenient, 100% web-based interface for defining messaging policies, monitoring and controlling your messaging infrastructure.

Define and enforce policies for any module: The same interface handles both inbound (spam and virus) and outbound (digital asset security, content compliance, regulatory compliance) messaging policies.
Graphical reports: More than 45 graphical reports and alerts give complete visibility.
End-user controls: Give each user personalized control over spam policies with end-user digests, personalized quarantines and personal safe- and block-lists.
Group support: Define messaging policies at the global, group or individual level to support the unique requirements of different groups of end users.

Read more about the Proofpoint Messaging Security Console

Always Up-to-date Protection with Zero Administration
The Proofpoint Dynamic Update Service ensures that your network always has the highest level of protection from message-born threats providing continuous updates for every software and firmware component of the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway.

Read more about the Proofpoint Dynamic Update Service

Fast and Easy Evaluation for Any Organization
In addition to enabling the rapid deployment of Proofpoint's messaging security features in VMware production and testing environments, the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Edition also provides a fast, easy and risk-free way for organizations to evaluate the Proofpoint appliance. A downloadable trial version of the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Edition can be installed and run on any x86 desktop or server hardware using the free VMware Server.

Overview

Proofpoint Protection Server

Messaging Security Gateway

Virtual Appliance for VMware

Spam Detection

Virus Protection

Zero-Hour Anti-Virus

Content Compliance

Digital Asset Security

Regulatory Compliance

Secure Messaging

MLX Technology

Email Firewall

Messaging Security Console

Dynamic Update Service

Secure Messaging

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  Modular Defenses
  Complete Perimeter Security
  Secure Messaging
  Virtual Appliance Benefits

Virtual Edition Appliance

Messaging Security Gateway

X-Series Appliance for SMEs

Proofpoint Protection Server

Spam Trends Report

Top Virus Types Report

End-user Digest

End-user Safe/Block List

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The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Edition is a fully pre-installed and pre-configured enterprise messaging security application, message transfer agent and secure operating environment that runs on any standard x86 desktop or server using VMware Player, VMware Workstation, VMware Server or VMware Infrastructure.