Mailguard Cloud Anti-Virus & Anti-Spam

The Most Powerful Cloud Anti-Spam & Anti Virus Service Available

Mailguard is a an advanced and highly customisable cloud based AS/AV service. Mailguard’s Email Security service has grown into a complete managed security suite protecting ALL email hardware and software platforms (Exchange, Zimbra, SOGo, Groupwise, Postfix, Sendmail, qmail, exim and all others) from outside the network perimeter. Mailguard provides uninterrupted virus and vulnerability scanning, anti-spam and phishing filtering, email attack and email backup protection to more than 3,000 organizations on six continents.

Mailguard is a completely managed, rapidly deployable service. It frees you from the hassle of trying to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated email threats. Although powerful, the web interface is simple to use and intuitive. At a glance, it provides:

  • Powerful spam blocking

  • Automated bayesian learning 
  • Outbound message filtering
  • Phishing protection
  • TLS encryption
  • Virus & worm scanning
  • Malware and spyware blocking
  • Quarantine control
  • Content & attachment filtering
  • Daily digest report emails
  • Admin and user management
  • Delegate management logins
  • Effortlessly manage 1000's of accounts

 

 

Advanced Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam and Phishing Filtering

Mailguard's email spam and virus filter heuristics engines alone consist of over multiple tests that containing over 100,000 active pattern matching algorithms updated hundreds of times each day. We are constantly adapting to new spamming techniques as we add new email spam filter tests and modify old ones. 


Vigilant Email Attack Blocking

The cloud is the logical place to analyse email traffic before it hits your servers. Our external systems act as an application layer firewall that protects your email server from denial of service attacks, dictionary harvest attacks, and email server vulnerabilities. Most server or desktop level approaches literally let spam and viruses come to your doorstep bringing you perilously close to these online threats with often just a single AS/AV engine, if that. Because MaiProtector operates at the DNS cloud level, we're able to dedicate considerably more resources to scanning and stopping spam - we don't have a single AS/AV service, we have several.


Custom Spam Filter

With Mailguard you can tailor your anti spam settings to your own custom specifications or rely on our default settings. By customising the system, you can configure the X-Header to display a custom message that your own mail filters can act on. Custom spam tolerances can set on a domain or individual email level.


Enhanced Outbound Scanning

Protect your online business reputation by stopping potential spam outbreaks within your organisation with our outbound email filter. In house mail systems may catch viruses - but few stop spam and blindly and unwittingly forward spam by compromised machines from your company - damaging your online reputation in the process. When enabled, your domains outbound email will be scanned for spam & viruses. You can also create email filtering rules which only apply to outbound content.


Directory Services Sync

Using an Exchange server? Mailguard integrates seamlessly with any existing Exchange environment. Mailguard will happily use Active Directory environment for authentication but also supports IMAP auth, standalone and SQL database auth. You are only charged for real mail accounts - not aliases or distribution lists. The advantages of cloud based anti-virus and anti-spam systems over are well known: Bandwidth savings, a separate line of defense and more sophisticated scanning engines are a but a few of these advantages. But until recently - you were charged for each unique email address that was processed - potentially expensive. With Mailguard you are only charged for genuine accounts. This feature is supported with Microsoft Exchange and our in-house hosted mail services.


Custom Email Footer

By default, we provide a footer to alert recipients that your mail has been scanned before it was sent. In addition, or as a replacement you can place a custom text message in the footer of every email sent from a specific domain.


Daily Email Reports

You can configure our systems to send a summary of messages flagged by our systems to your users each day. You can also provide your users the ability to release these messages directly by clicking on a release link - from the comfort of their inbox.


Easy Domain Grouping

Easily manage domain aliases from our console.


Simple Message Quarantine

Users can login and view their personal email statistics, & release messages from their quarantine using the same login credentials as their mail server.


Content Filtering

In addition to the security threats of spam, viruses, worms, and phishing, companies today are becoming increasingly aware of the need for content filtering and attachment control.  The damage caused by either unethical email (racially insensitive or pornographic) or the loss of proprietary company information can ruin a company’s reputation as well as cause harmful consequences in the marketplace. With Mailguard’s content filtering module, companies can enforce policy and compliance policies for their organisation. Benefits of Mailguard’s content filtering include the ability to manage rules based on words in the message headers, subject, or body. Domain admins can create inbound and outbound rules for an entire domain or a specific user and control attachment type & size and filter email from over 240 country-specific URL extensions.


Business Continuity

On premise servers can go down. If they do, we’ll store your inbound mail for up to 7 days so you don’t have to worry about an outage. When you install an email server based software solution, you're simply adding to the stress of a single point of failure in your email pipeline. Expensive gateway appliances in front of your email server are often on the same network segment as your server and subject to downtime if your connectivity suffers. When you add Mailguard to your email security plan, you are adding redundancy and reliability to your vital email traffic.

If your email systems go down, we will continue to accept mail for your domain and hold it until your mail server is back online. Then, well deliver it in a flow controlled fashion to make sure your server isn't overwhelmed.

If you are experiencing a serious or long-term outage, we can re-route your messages to one of our Hosted Email services*

*Additional charges apply.


Online Reputation Management

Blacklists and RBL's are increasing used by mail administrators to help aid in preventing spam. The vast majority of these blacklists lack formal governance and their criteria for listing and delisting can all vary significantly. Your mail servers IP can get on a blacklist for a variety of reasons - but in general it is because it is currently spamming or highly at risk of doing so (poor configuration, security vulnerability, etc). One additional reason people forget is the all too common risk of office PC's becoming infected with viruses that spam (through malware of some form) and then simply leveraging the on-premise office mail server to send spam out. The moment RBL's detect, they will blacklist your system - and the process of being delisted can take weeks - resulting in costly business downtime in email communications


Cost Effective

Mailguard services are extremely cost effective. For a monthly fee per user (that drops in volume), users can enjoy spam and virus free communications. In addition - they save on bandwidth costs. If some 90% of email traffic is spam, then by letting this spam reach your door step you are in effect paying a hidden bandwidth tax. Mailguard only forwards only verified clean traffic to your servers. You also save by using our directory services sync technology so you are only charged for valid accounts, not aliases or virtual accounts (* Exchange and Zimbra Servers only)


Quick Setup

Are your systems already blacklisted? Mailguard is relatively quick to setup and once in place you can begin sending and receiving spam and virus free email and not have to worry about blacklists are spam and viruses ever again.

Mailguard Pricing

Mailguard provides powerful anti-spam and anti-virus with a convenient web management interface. Mailguard is a cloud-based service that works by intercepting your inbound and outbound emails and filtering them before delivering them. All Vorari users receive Mailguard for free but if you are using a 3rd party service or your own mail server you can still take advantage of Mailguard - see prices below.

Descripton Price
Unlimited Vorari FREE for all customers
Per user £3/month
1x domain £175/year
5x domains £300/year
Unlimited £500/year