KCS – Email Management Service
KCS Email Management Service (KCS/EMS) is extremely effective at blocking spam and other email threats, yet elegantly simple to deploy, manage and use. It employs a variety of proven and patented technologies designed to protect email for organizations from 1 to 100,000 users.
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Spam, phishing and virus protection.
Spam evolves constantly. No single analytic technique is enough to stop it. KCS/EMS uses 14 different techniques including advanced IP reputation, GRIDprint analysis, Adversarial Bayesian filtering, Image Inference analysis and more, to not only block spam, phishing and virus emails, but to also confidently ensure delivery of good email.
IP reputation and connection management.
KCS/EMS utilizes not only a message’s sender IP reputation, but also the reputation of its content, structure, links, images, attachments and more. Moreover, Advanced Reputation Management also provides directory harvest attack (DHA) protection, Denial of Service (DoS) protection, backscatter/ NDR protection and more, all with comprehensive logging and reporting.
Zombie detection.
KCS/EMS protects your email server’s IP reputation by detecting and stopping zombie generated outbound spam, phishing and virus email. In addition, KCS/EMS can scan and apply compliance rules to outbound email and attachments.
Compliance management.
KCS/EMS offers advanced detection and routing techniques for email compliance management, including compliance dictionaries, record-id (pattern) matching, encryption routing, archive storage/retrieval routing, and approval box routing.
Policy management.
KCS/EMS streamlines inbound and outbound email policy management. For instance, administrators* can easily customize rules to simply detect and block specific types of attachments; reroute e-mail from competitors; or check all outbound e-mail for specific words and phrases.
Monitoring & reporting.
KCS/EMS self-monitors its functionality and performance, and can automatically generate alerts. For reporting, administrators* can easily customize granular or system-wide reports and charts on threats, compliance, policy, connection management and more, and have these reports automatically generated and emailed as required.
End-user control.
Empowering users while retaining full IT control, KCS/EMS flexibly adjusts to the needs of your organization. For example, administrators* could deploy end-user junk boxes (in one of 15 languages) or instead eliminate end-user junk boxes altogether. Or an administrator could allow some users to set their own spam blocking setting, while allowing another group of users to update their own allow/block lists or even generate their own reports.
Automatic updates.
Every five minutes, the dynamic KCS/EMS automatically updates including IP reputation information, user and group LDAP entries, spam word-and-phrase content and anti-virus signatures as required.
Scalable and flexible deployments.
Uniquely scalable, flexible and redundant, KCS/EMS works in distributed or clustered deployments, while offering centralized reporting, management and monitoring.
*For customers with 250 or more users they may administer KCS/EMS themselves alternatively KCS administrators will do the work on behalf of the customer.
