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Effective, secure and reliable hosted email security and continuity solution

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Comprehensive email security, your way

GFI Email Security product line includes:

» ONLINE□ GFI MailEssentials® Online (Anti-spam and email security)

» ON PREMISE: □ GFI MailEssentials® (Anti-spam and/or email security)

Each solution is designed from the ground up to be robustand easy to manage

» Benefit from ultimate flexibility in deployment

» Compliments other GFI on-premise software

» Or any combination of these

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GFI MailEssentials Online – Overview

GFI MailEssentials Online is a hosted email security solution that offers:

» Inbound email filtering

» Outbound email filtering

» Email continuity

» Edge-based network defense

The service is designed to be highly accurate, cost-effective and easy to use

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About the service

Primary component of service is spam and virus protection

» Industry-leading technology detects a high percentage of junk mail

» Inbound filtering activated by a simple DNS change□ Within minutes an organization can be protected from spam, viruses

and other incoming email threats

» Individual users can easily review detected spam messages□ Hosted web-based quarantine

□ Daily spam/virus digest reports by email

» Outbound filtering is similarly easy to implement□ Notification to administrators of any spammers or virus-infected workstations

on their network attempting to send outbound junk mail

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Inbound mail filtering

Highly accurate detection of spam, viruses and email threats

» Adaptive system blocks emerging junk mail□ Historical examples include image spam and PDF spam

□ Zero-hour virus protection

» Multi-layered analysis to prevent false positives

» Language-neutral tests to detect junk email regardless of language

Efficient initial and ongoing management

» Inbound filtering activated by a simple DNS change□ An organization can be protected within minutes

» Simple web-based control panel for management

» Automated email address updates via LDAP synchronization

» Message logging and search allows customers to easily track a message

» Fine-grained control over spam filtering, or just set it and forget it

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More on inbound mail filtering

Little or no administrator assistance required

» Hosted web-based quarantine (shown below) and daily spam/virus digest reports allow for simple self-service by individual users

Incoming junk mail can be kept completely off your network and stored in a hosted quarantine that is accessible to users at any time.

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Outbound Mail Filtering

Optional component of GFI MailEssentials Online service is outbound spam and virus filtering

Simple set-up

» Customer mail server is configured to send outbound messages through the GFI MailEssentials Online service, which acts as an outbound relay

Benefits of outbound filtering

» Filtering blocks outbound spam or viruses□ Protects the company’s reputation

□ Prevents blacklisting and improves ability to deliver valid email

» Notification to administrators of any virus-infected workstations on their network attempting to send outbound junk mail

» Message logging and search allows tracking of outbound messages

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Email continuity

Integrated message queuing

» All inbound messages are automatically queued if the company’s mail server is unreachable

» Typical scenarios include problems with mail server,network issues, planned server upgrades and other outages

» No bounce messages are generated when an outage occurs

On-demand mail service

» Users have access to all queued messages, and can respond to those messages, via a fully functional webmail in the control panel during any outage

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GFI MailEssentials Online technology

Advanced software architecture

» Third-generation software designed for high capacity to managerapidly growing message volume

» Modular scanning techniques for maximum flexibility

» High accuracy through multi-layered analysis

» Multi-language and language-neutral tests

» Customizable web-based control panel

Distributed network architecture

» Five data centers in North America

» One data center in Germany, one in the UK

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Benefits for customers

Key features of GFI MailEssentials Online

» Highly accurate, adaptive system blocks emerging junk mail□ (historical examples include image spam and PDF spam)

» Zero-hour virus protection

» Email continuity

» Outbound filtering

» Message logging and search

» Configurable user preferences and individual quarantines allow users the ability to manage their spam without administrator assistance

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More benefits for customers

Other advantages of service

» No software or hardware to download, install, configure or maintain

» Provides reliability and scalability alone or in addition to a hardware or software solution□ Eliminates single point of failure with on-premise solution

□ Multiple systems in multiple data centers provide for much greatercapacity to handle large spam runs and increasing message traffic

» Threats are blocked before they reach the customer’s network

» Rapid implementation in a matter of minutes

» Service is compatible with any operating system(s) or mail infrastructure and continues working even when there are changes to that infrastructure

» Inexpensive and predictable pricing, with no capital investment

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How it stacks up

Easier than Google

Toll Free vs. Google “Support”

Additional charge from Google

Considerably less expensive with archiving option included

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Advantages over hardware/software solutions

Advantages of GFI MailEssentials Online service

» Reliability

» Scalability

» Business continuity

» Simple, rapid, remote deployment – and reduced management

» No capital investment

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Advantages over other services

Feature advantages of GFI MailEssentials Online

» Ease of use

» Integrated queuing and email continuity

Structural advantages of GFI

» Value-oriented, tiered pricing model

» Quality of support

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To find out more visit:www.gfi.com/meo

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All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Features are subject to change without notice.