5.2.0 MetaDefender Email Gateway Security release

December 17, 2020

MetaDefender Email Gateway Security 5.2.0 is a feature release focusing on the new reporting capability of the product.

New & improved

Reporting

Email Gateway Security now provides a built-in reporting functionality. A report of the most essential processing results can be generated with a single click. The information is presented in a well organized, printing ready format.

For details see 5.4. Reporting.

Tags in rules and emails

Email Gateway Security supports adding markers - called tags - to emails, to provide a user-defined notation for emails based on different processing properties of a specific email.

Emails then can be filtered based o these tags, and the tags can even be configured to appear in the subject of the delivered email.

For details see 4.4. Policy, 5.2. Email History, 5.3. Quarantine and 5.12. Email tags.

Multiple SMTP ports

Email Gateway Security can now listen on multiple SMTP ports providing the option to apply different settings for each SMTP port.

For details see 4.3. Settings.

Secure SMTP configuration

Similarly to HTTPS for the web management console, SMTP over TLS (SMTPS) or other encryption protocols (StartTLS) can now be configured on the user interface.

For details see 4.3. Settings and 4.2. Transport Layer Security.

Email recipient verification

Email Gateway Security can be configured to apply a rule only if the recipient of the email is accepted by any of the SMTP servers of the SMTP server profile configured for the rule.

This option can help avoiding situations when Email Gateway Security accepts an email even if it is known to be unable to forward it. In such cases the email ends up in Failed status and pollutes the Audit > Email History with email junk that can not be delivered

For details see 4.4.4. Recipient verification.

Send redacted attachments

A new option is available for security rules to send redacted version of blocked files. Enabling this option will deliver redacted email contents - when redaction is available for the file type - if the contents were blocked due to sensitive data only.

For details see 4.4. Policy.

For details about redaction and file types supported by Proactive DLP see https://onlinehelp.opswat.com/dlp/2._Redact_sensitive_information.html.

Custom disclaimer for sanitized components

When Zero-Day Malware Prevention / Override sanitization behavior / Send sanitized version of blocked files is enabled, Email Gateway Security will deliver the sanitized version of blocked components within an email. A custom disclaimer may be set for this cases with a new option.

Ignore CDR’s blacklist

If Deep CDR’s Blacklist unsupported file types option is enabled, it was not possible to rescan emails with password protected attachments as password protected files are blacklisted by Deep CDR.

Email Gateway Security now provides an option to Ignore to rescan blacklisted attachments when initiating a rescan in the web management console. Enabling this option the email can be rescanned excluding the blacklisted contents.

For details see 5.3. Quarantine.

Propagate TLS changes to the Public server address

When TLS is enabled or disabled for the web management console (HTTP/HTTPS) under Settings > Security, this setting will now be propagated to the Public server address under Settings > General / Configuration.

For details see 4.2. Transport Layer Security and 4.3. Settings.

Notification when in monitoring mode

A notification message will warn administrators when Email Gateway Security is in a monitoring mode (opposed to the protection mode that is recommended for production).

For details see 4.3. Settings.

Updated processing components

Advanced Threat Prevention, Zero-Day Malware prevention and Data Loss Prevention components were updated to their latest versions.

Fixed

Advanced Threat Prevention's detail is empty

Advanced Threat Prevention details were empty on the Dashboard even when there were certain advanced threats detected.

Right-to-left disclaimers

Even when the browser and the OS were set to a RTL language, disclaimers sometimes were still aligned to left.

The disclaimer editor in Email Gateway Security now has a function to enforce the disclaimer to be aligned to right.

For details see 4.4.1. Disclaimers.

Unexpected JSON format

When the MAXIMUM FILE SIZE FOR FILES SCANNED value was set over a limit on MetaDefender Core (over 9 223 372 036 854 megabytes)

then adding that Core sever to a server profile, or fetching the Core side rules of that Core failed with the Unexpected JSON format received from Metadefender Core error message.

Rescan page in Internet Explorer

As a hotfix, Email Gateway Security can support Internet Explorer version 11 for the public rescan page.