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Bargaintech Premium Email Filtering is an inbound & optional outbound outsource email hygiene/content solution for Medium and Small Business Clients that; is a cost effective alternative to in-house email filtering solutions or a highly competitive replacement to any incumbent outsource service. Over the years, we've answered the requests of our focus groups and customers by providing: No risk, guaranteed uptime service, cancelable at will. No set up fees, maintenance fees or upgrade fees. No hardware or software purchases or licenses, no changes to legacy systems. No-long term contracts, just month to month actual billing. Custom Labeling - Create confidence with your employees using your own company brand on the premium email filtering web interfaces, headers footers etc... Instill assurances with self explanatory, easy to use controls, as well as offer a seamless and quickly noticed upgrades - whether converting from current filtering services or in-house solutions. World-renowned, award winning VIRCOM email filtering software with out of the box performance: 98.6%+ spam catching, very low 0.01% false positive rate, and corporate antivirus with multiple daily definition updates. World-class, multiple redundant data centers guarantees the speed and ironclad reliability to process huge volumes of email in milliseconds. Real time monthly billing safeguarding against overbilling, accurate user verification, and unlimited email aliases, mean fair and exact billing for only the email accounts benefiting from the filtering service. As the number of filtered email boxes fluctuates, so do the amounts charged. Standard inbound, disaster recovery and optional outbound capabilities - outbound (corporate) services, greater control for monitoring corporate acceptable use policy. Web based settings and reporting for Administrators and for the end user. Detailed, complete control over your settings and domains from our easy to use Message Center. Free 30-day trial period, irrespective of mailbox deployment size. "Compared to internal solutions, Bargaintech can save you 60% to 90% in email processing loads, reduce email bandwidth expenses, and lower the manpower resources currently tasked with email filtering management, software configuration and maintenance. Our competitors consistently do not provide free spooling for disaster recovery, nor do they offer free custom labeling, affordable outbound services, accurate Real Time Billing, or monthly working agreement - all of which are core Bargaintech service offerings. Email is mission critical to all businesses, which is why all of our services ALWAYS INCLUDE EMERGENCY 24X7 SUPPORT. We're here to guarantee service to you - so let Bargaintech stop spam, viruses & inappropriate content from outside your network. Save time and financial resources. Be confident with our ironclad service guarantees and take charge of your acceptable corporate email usage policies through one source, managed by us, for you.
Email Protection Feature Status Description Outbound Services • Attachment Manager • Content Manager/Corporate Secrets Quarantine • Virus Filtering/Downside Liability • Compliance Footer Optional Enterprise Rich scripting (content-out) controls for Acceptable Use Policy. Downside Liability for outbound virus - spam proliferation to other businesses. Instant Messaging Optional Separate Product Addition Archiving Optional Separate Product Addition Custom Labeling Yes Client Identity on Services Aggregate Pricing for Core Services Yes Price "Lock" Guarantee Cancellation/Performance Clause Yes 99.999% Uptime Guarantee Monthly Turnover Protection Yes Auto-User Verify, Aliases waived, Actual Billing Migration Consulting Yes Black/White List Import Definitions used for Feature Summary Spam Filters The filtering service detects spam by applying hundreds of rules coordinated by a patented content analysis engine to each message that passes through the data center. It never blocks email (obvious spam) outright, never loses an email by delivering all email not diverted as spam to a Quarantine. From there, your users can review the Quarantine for any legitimate message that may have been falsely caught, and release it. When your service is activated, all types of spam are filtered at a default level of aggressiveness. Users/Domains have the option to alter the level of filtration. These settings can be configured individually or globally - at the user or domain level respectively. If users don't wish to log into the web portal to check for false positives, an interactive email with all quarantined email can be sent every day with click on release, blacklist functionality right from the email. Virus Blocking Your service includes the most innovative virus protection in the industry - an engine that combines predictive and definition based approaches. The predictive "Sandbox" emulates multiple operating systems and is capable of executing the code in question in a virtual environment, offering a real time analysis of new, unrecognized threats. In addition, a signature based definition update database is checked frequently, to protect against those threats that have already been discovered. Virus blocking can be configured for incoming and outgoing messages. Connection Defense Connection defense automatically blocks and prevents attacks and provides an interface to block IP ranges it also allows you to configure trusted servers that you specify as safe. Delivery Configuration Mail can be destined to multiple email servers (no matter what your configuration may be) Guaranteed Message Delivery with Bagaintech's highly redundant Servers; Will identify mail server outages and notify you. From the Delivery Manager page, you can assign multiple email servers in one easy configuration. Delivery systems balance inbound message load across multiple email hosts, regardless of the email server's geographic location, use of SMTP means delivery is possible to any email server. Reports Reports provide visibility into the traffic patterns across your organization. The Administration Console produces different traffic reports based on your product configuration. Our reporting provides extensive analysis into email message traffic, spam, virus, and usage over a day or week. Reports containing the data from the previous day are available around noon, Eastern Standard Time, the following day. Message Center (Console) You can allow users to manage their own spam, viruses, and other quarantined messages, by enabling access to the Web Interface. From the Log-on Screen, users can see which messages are being filtered look for falsely quarantined messages, and can release any message to their Inbox. In addition, users can be given permissions to view and modify certain aspects of their own service at the Message Screen. With the appropriate permissions, users can turn spam or virus filters on or off, set spam filter levels, manage their own sender lists and user aliases, and much more. Quite simply, Bargaintech provides unparalleled levels of user control compared to other outsource email filtering services. Quarantine Summary The Quarantine Summary is an HTML-formatted email that lists the messages that have been quarantined. This is a convenient feature that allows users to scan their quarantine without logging in to the Message Center. In addition, message specific actions such as quarantine releasing or reporting false positives is available directly from this summary, further reducing the need for logging in and saving valuable time. Blatant Spam Blocking With some competitors, all obvious spam will be eliminated without reaching the data center or your server, thus limiting the control that you should retain. Bargaintech is different. We empower you with more control by filtering all mail subject to configurable personal settings (anti-spam aggressiveness). We do not use RBL's, known banned lists, or geographical conditions to block email as spam. We examine each email for spam content before delivering on to our clients. Directory Harvest Attack (DHA) DHA refers to an attack in which numerous emails to multiple accounts are sent in an attempt to check common user names by brute force/volume. Although its aim is to retrieve a list of user addresses, this can become a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, crippling your mail server by overloading it. Spam and Virus Attack protection (various DoS attacks) An email bomb is a DoS attack in which a large volume of emails with a large mean message size is sent from a particular IP, overwhelming the receiving mail server A spam attack is a DoS attack in which a statistically significant quantity of spam relative to non-spam traffic is sent from one server. A virus outbreak is a DoS attack in which a statistically significant amount of virus traffic relative to valid email traffic is received from a particular sending server over a time period. Bargaintech protects your servers against these attacks and more - much more. Redundancy - Spooling (for Mission Critical disaster recovery e-mail protection) Spooling collects & stores email during an outage then delivers email traffic to the receiving email server when it's back online. Should your mail server (or mail relay border server) become unavailable-either due to a system crash, a network connectivity issue or other reasons Bargaintech stores or spools incoming traffic until communication with your server is re-established. All mail will be delivered once your server is available. Attachment Control Attachment control is used to filter messages based on the size or file extension of any attachments. Each of several filters can have its own disposition, or method of processing filtered messages. For example, you can bounce messages whose attachments exceed 200 MB, quarantine messages whose attachments have the .vbs or .pif file extension, and approve messages with attached image files. Content Manager The Content Manager allows administrators to create custom content filters based on key words and phrases found in the message (contained either in the header, body, footer or message envelope). This filtering happens while the mail is being scanned; Content Manager takes milliseconds to analyze a message and execute the disposition if the filter triggers. Inbound Content Manager, which filters the mail you receive, is included with most service offerings. Outbound Content Manager, which filters the mail you send, is an optional feature. This versatile, powerful system is paramount to controlling outbound email content under accessible use policies through an extremely affordable technology. Transport-Layer Security (TLS) Depending on the level of protection you have selected, albeit is possible to enable Transport Layer Security (TLS), a protocol that encrypts and delivers mail securely. TLS connections are available for both inbound and outbound mail traffic. TLS helps prevent eavesdropping and spoofing (message forgery) between mail servers. It is a standards-based protocol based on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). TLS is rapidly being adopted as the standard for secure email. This protocol uses cryptography to provide endpoint authentication and communications privacy over the Internet. TLS is the email equivalent of HTTPS for web communications and has similar strengths and weaknesses. Industry Heuristics Industry Heuristics can help reduce falsely quarantined messages for users and groups that receive large numbers legal or financial-related messages, which can contain content that appears to be spam. With Industry Heuristics turned on for a user organization, legitimate legal and financial content is identified, and then filtered less rigorously to assure that these messages reach users. Messages may pass through spam filters, but are still subject to filtering by the Attachment Manager, Content Manager, Approved/Blocked Senders lists, and Virus Blocking. Directory Sync Directory Sync makes user management easier by connecting to your directory server when an email is received to an unknown user. Directory Sync imports this information into the email protection service. It will add, delete or move users based on your organization's Directory (OU). This also works with dormant accounts (MS Exchange feature.) Directory Sync acts as a one-way synchronization. Your user and alias information in the email protection service may be added, moved or deleted, but your directory server is not changed in any way. Directory Sync can be launched manually from the Administration Console or scheduled to run automatically. The following features are included with Directory Sync: Support for Major LDAP Servers: Support for Windows Active Directory 2000 and 2003, and Sun ONE Directory Server. Support for IBM Lotus Notes is currently available in Early Access version. User Management: Directory Sync will add, delete, and move users and aliases. One-way pull: Directory Sync pulls information from your directory server to the email protection service to map your user base in one or more organizations. Automated Synchronization: Directory Sync can be scheduled to synchronize automatically on a regular schedule or on a real time basis. Operation Limits: Safeguards to limit number of additions and deletions of user accounts in the email protection service, with data and configuration validation. Secure data transmission: Directory Sync uses secure 128-bit SSL for all connections. Outbound Services Attachment Manager: filters messages based on the size or file extension of any attachments. Content Manager: filters based on key words and phrases found in the header or body of a message. Corporate secrets quarantine. Spam Filtering: applies hundreds of rules to each message that passes out through the data center. Compliance Footer: Outbound messages can be configured with footer text that describes an email policy or legal compliance. This compliance footer is added into the last existing text portion of a message. In the rare event of an empty text portion, the compliance footer is not included. The compliance footer is part of Outbound Services. Compliance footers are configured at the organization level. Filtering for Instant Messaging Filtering for Instant Messaging provides security, centralized control, and reporting for enterprise IM usage. Protects against spim (IM spam) and malware (IM worms and viruses). Archiving & Discovery Barganintech has multiple E-mail and IM storage and retrieval services that are add on products to the Premium Email Filtering Service. Encryption Manager Please refer to the Transport-Layer Security (TLS) heading. Custom Labeling Your business logos and identifications are embedded on all the web portals. Employees see your company on quarantine files, user settings, etc. Bargaintech will customize any visible part of the process to your business name and logos for IT continuity and confidence. You want the reliability of having Bargaintech on the back end - your personnel want confidence in your name. We recognize this important part of your business. Aggregate Pricing for Core Services/Reselling All costs per mail box are directly affected by the aggregate number of mail boxes being serviced by Bargaintech in the calendar year being serviced. The more email boxes Bargaintech provides services for, the less overall cost is charged. Bargaintech customers benefit with automatic price reductions as email box totals continue to grow at global platform levels in a calendar year. Referring other businesses to Bargaintech for email filtering in turn drives down the prices to all our email filtering customers. Cancellation/Performance Clause Bargaintech guarantees 99.999% uptime for our managed email filtering services. If services are delayed or terminated (as described in service agreement) Bargaintech will pro-rate if acceptable or schedule services to be cancelled. Turnover Protection The number of email boxes "enabled" or "not enabled" for filtering each month determines the charges assessed Bargaintech customers. As enabled boxes go up or down so does the billing amounts. Migration Consulting Bargaintech provides free phone and database support to assist in any migration efforts required by our customers to implement the Bargaintech filtering services. This includes but is not limited to user's white lists, blacklist export & imports, server optimization techniques and user verification procedures. |
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