User Guide
About This Guide
This guide is intended to provide the information you need to:
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Install, configure, and manage MetaDefender Email Security v4.x.
MetaDefender Email v3 users
When using MetaDefender Email v3, refer to MetaDefender Email v3 user guide. In case of migrating from MetaDefender Email v3 to MetaDefender Email Security v4 see 2.5 Migrating from MetaDefender Email v3.
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Learn about new and updated features, and bug fixes on each MetaDefender Email Security release (i.e. each product version's release notes).
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Learn about frequently asked questions and additional concepts through our library of knowledge base articles.
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About MetaDefender Email Security
Second Layer of Defense for Your Email Security Gateway
Email security gateways, although offering tremendous protection, are not perfect. MetaDefender Email Security enhances existing email security gateways by offering additional protection with more than 30 anti-malware engines (leveraging both heuristics and signature-based detection) and data sanitization to combat increasingly popular document-based or image-based attacks.
Key Features
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Prevent with email sanitization using 90 data sanitization engines
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Detect and prevent more threats by scanning with more than 30 leading anti-malware engines
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Leverage heuristic analysis to detect more unknown and targeted attacks
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Decrease detection time of outbreaks
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Easily integrate with existing email security layer
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Real-time monitoring threats
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Real-time alert and monitoring
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Schedule report
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High performance
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Quarantine infected and sanitized email
Deployment Options
Mail Proxy Deployment (Generic)
In this traditional setup MetaDefender Email Security acts as an anti-malware email proxy between the email gateway (anti-spam) and the mail server.
Cloud Deployment
For hosted solutions such as Office 365 or G Suite Gmail.
Onsite Microsoft Exchange Deployment
This is the standard setup with Microsoft Exchange Server.
MetaDefender Email Security as mail proxy
MetaDefender does not incorporate or include the following functionalities:
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Replace email gateway
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for spam filtering
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for NDR based on email validation although we can validate syntactically and mark failed to deliver.
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Replace mail server
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user-based quarantine
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user authentication based on email address (e.g, active directory)
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