MONTREAL, June 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Vircom
is today announcing new additions to its market-leading modusGate
on-premise email security gateway, with the addition of an enhanced
Malicious URL Scan, DMARC Reporting, Display Name Phishing
Protection, a new User Interface and Threat Dashboard, and
fundamental improvements in core accuracy and speed of processing
which all push the capacities of On-Premise Email Security further
into the future.
While many on-premise email security deployments have been
relegated to the "legacy" graveyard, Vircom's development team has
continued to improve its offering with this 6.5 release of
modusGate. Improvements include updates to core Avira and
Bitdefender AV engines, population and authentication support for
Office 365 AD, additional security to counter the recently revealed
"Mailsploit" exploit, and improvements to the core SPF and DKIM
engines, further bolstering modusGate's DMARC capabilities.
On the other hand, new features include an enhanced Malicious
URL Scan. When emails pass through modusGate's secure email
gateway, emails containing links directed to malicious hosted
content will now be filtered, protecting users from some of the
cleverest ways of delivering phishing messages and malware.
modusGate's Malicious URL Scan incorporates threat intelligence
drawn from the activity of over three billion devices daily, where
malware, unwanted software and social engineering content are
efficiently filtered and reported, adding another layer of
knowledge on which modusGate can evaluate and filter out malicious
emails and their senders.
modusGate 6.5 will also include DMARC Reporting, building on the
release of DMARC policy-setting in modusGate 6.4. With DMARC
Reporting, modusGate administrators can now analyze the mass of
data produced by DMARC analysis and more precisely determine trends
and risks present in mail flowing toward their users. "DMARC is at
the cutting edge of mass email authentication, and something that
can be critical to all organizations in not only assuring that they
receive authentic email, but also that they are not being
misrepresented or impersonated to the outside world," adds Vircom
CEO Mike Petsalis. "Organizations of
all sizes are finally coming to realize the massive value DMARC
provides in securing email through advanced authentication,
discovering the good and bad ways their sending domains are used,
and also creating a community of organizations that securely send
and receive email on an internet-wide scale."
On top of these additions, modusGate 6.5 also includes Display
Name Phishing Protection and a brand-new User Interface. Display
Name Phishing Protection allows organizations to specify
high-authority users who are more frequently targeted by email
spoofing, impersonation and phishing threats, allowing for a higher
degree of filtering for this high-value subset of users.
modusGate's new User Interface is what brings all the above
features together, enabling every administrator with an intuitive
user interface that introduces the highest possible degree of
accurate visualization and management to modusGate, further
simplifying the ways in which Vircom helps IT administrators and
partners get their jobs done. This UI's Threat Dashboard also
permits customers and partners to have an up-to-the-minute
understanding of what type of email threats their organizations
face and where the latest threats are coming from, further driving
the value modusGate offers in confronting new and existing security
risks.
"Though cloud email security is increasingly popular because of
its ease of use and implementation, the spread of data protection
laws and the suspicions of the everyday admin mean that there still
is and will always be a place for on-premise email security in
organizations of all sizes," says Marc
Chouinard, Vircom's Head of Email Security Operations.
"modusGate 6.5 brings forward advanced features that are crafted
directly to the technical needs of the everyday IT admin, the
unsung heroes who form not only the bulk of our own customer base,
but also of the IT experts that serve most organizations
worldwide."
"While other organizations are writing off their on-premise
products and Vircom is seeing expansion in its own modusCloud cloud
email security offering, many customers still express significant
interest in powerful On-Premise protection that maximizes their
control ," adds Mr. Petsalis. "On-Premise security will always have
a place for many organizations, and modusGate continues to present
the best-value offering for many looking for advanced filtering
with outstanding support and an industry-leading customer
experience." Indeed, while customer feedback and retention rates
speak loudly to what Mr. Petsalis identifies as key for Vircom, the
low frequency of successful attacks against Vircom's customers only
bolsters this truth.
About Vircom
Vircom has, for more than two decades, been providing
cutting-edge solutions that really work in helping keep IT Teams
and Service Providers serene and effective. Vircom's latest
offering, modusCloud, offers small and medium businesses some of
the most powerful email protection on the market, featuring
filtering driven by machine learning, Advanced Threat Protection
against phishing, malicious attachments and URLs, Data Loss
Prevention (DLP), user-friendly Email Encryption, Social Media
Protection, and Email Archiving with legal hold, eDiscovery and
10-year unlimited storage.
Vircom has over 3000 customers and protects more than 3 million
mailboxes and is already helping organizations of all sizes meet
their advanced cyber security needs as they transition to Office
365 and other cloud systems – all while maintaining a standard of
development, support and customer experience that is second-to-none
in the industry.
SOURCE Vircom