Axway Extends MailGate with Virtualized Offering

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Axway, leading global provider of multi-enterprise solutions and infrastructure, has launched a virtualized offering of its leading MailGate Email Security product, which decreases messaging security’s physical footprint and costs by reducing hardware and operational needs. Continuing its investment in MailGate’s functionality, the new release also adds outbound IP virtualization to preserve corporate email reputations, and Domain Key Identified Mail (DKIM) to ensure proper message delivery. Whether using the virtualized delivery model or Axway’s hardware appliances, MailGate (formerly Tumbleweed MailGate) offers industry-leading unified email security, standards based encryption and data loss prevention (DLP) features.

By requiring less hardware and lowering operational costs, virtualized MailGate ultimately improves the efficiency and availability of resources in an organization. It also boasts a 50 to 70 percent savings on overall IT costs, and reduces energy consumption as well. Virtualization also delivers rapid deployment, simplified policy management and easy back-up and recovery.

Also included in the new MailGate offering is an outbound IP virtualization feature, designed to preserve the sender reputation of a company’s corporate email. Organizations that must send copious amounts of email through their email gateway, such as legitimate marketing purposes, run the risk of being seen as a bulk or spam sender. These activities can cause a company’s email gateway and IP address to be grey- or blacklisted, threatening the timely delivery of their corporate email. With MailGate’s new outbound IP virtualization feature, companies can mask their primary IP addresses to maintain their reputations, by routing high volume email communications through secondary, virtual IP addresses.

"With nearly half of all large organizations noting plans to implement virtual security appliances, virtualization will be one of the strongest growth platforms for messaging security in the coming years," said Brian Burke Program Director, Security Products at IDC. "With virtualized offerings such as Axway’s MailGate, companies can now better meet virtualization strategies that generate hardware savings, consolidate disparate security appliances and address IT energy savings goals."

With the newest MailGate, enterprises moving to a VMWare environment can apply anti-spam, anti-virus, policy-based DLP and encryption and reporting features in minutes. MailGate’s virtual offering can be flexibly deployed in hybrid configurations, with its "plug and play" administration easy for IT to deploy, administer and maintain.

By making our award-winning MailGate a virtual offering, customers can reduce hardware and operating costs by 50 percent and lower energy costs by 80 percent, while still leveraging Axway’s extensive, integrated product support," said Joe Fisher, vice president of product and solution marketing, Axway. "Just as importantly, we have taken advantage of virtualization’s flexibility to extend the market-leading feature set of MailGate with additions like outbound IP virtualization, so customers benefit from both lower total cost ownership and the technology advances that virtualization enables."

Axway has also incorporated DKIM into the new virtualized MailGate, allowing email recipients to verify incoming emails come from the domain they claim to have come from. By guaranteeing the authenticity of incoming email, email management workload is reduced by keeping forged messages out of email systems.

To bolster its DLP, email reputation and authentication offerings, MailGate’s features include:

• Built-in Domain Key Identified Mail (DKIM) to verify messages from acceptable domains
• Bounce Address Tag Validation (BATV), which eliminates:
  • Denial of service attacks resulting from forged email addresses in mass spam distributions, which increase the number of unwanted non-delivery messages
  • Exploitation of non-delivery reports that conceal spam messages
• Outbound IP Virtualization to segregate the reputations of corporate and bulk marketing email streams
• Enhanced export reporting data to create customized reports for analysis and systems management

For more information on MailGate, visit

http://www.axway.com/products/tumbleweed/email_security/mailgate.php.

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About Axway

Axway is the Business Interaction Networks company — the only provider in the market today to manage, run, secure, and monitor all of your business interactions, including email, files, messaging, services, events, and processes. Serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries, Axway facilitates the multi-enterprise transactions, processes and integration that accelerate business by eliminating the barriers between vendors, customers, departments, partners and suppliers. Axway's comprehensive offerings include business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions. Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Axway's global presence spans 20 countries.