Proactive protection from targeted malicious email, spam, and phishing attacks
The Abaca Email Protection Gateway is a hardened appliance that protects your corporate network from malicious and unwanted email. It delivers unparalleled messaging protection by accurately blocking 99.9% of unwanted email including targeted malicious email, spam and phishing attacks. Prevent unwanted email from infiltrating your corporate mailboxes with an amazingly low rate of false positives.
A new generation of predictive protection
Abaca is the leader in next-generation email protection. The product of years of research, the Abaca® Email Protection Gateway, a hardened appliance, offers a major advance in anti-spam and anti-malware. Unlike the conventional solutions, it keeps you one step ahead of attackers by sidestepping older approaches such as volume-based reputation filters and signature-based content filters.
Abaca Advantages
- Blocks 99.9% of spam—guaranteed. Conventional solutions allow up to 5% of dangerous or unwanted mail to enter your network
- Prevents the loss of valuable messages. Unlike conventional solutions, the Abaca service highlights potentially useful mail and notifies users
- Eliminates the need for constant, time-consuming maintenance. The patented Abaca algorithm overcomes the overhead common to other spam filters by learning in real-time to deliver protection automatically
- Becomes more accurate with each message it processes, whereas competitive spam filters degrade over time
- The revolutionary Abaca engine learns which emails individuals want to receive, overcoming the limitation of conventional systems that apply one set of rules to all users
Automatic zero-day protection
The Abaca Anti-Spam service delivers a revolutionary approach to spam protection by automatically predicting with 99.9% accuracy which messages are spam. Patented Abaca technology works where older systems fail—the critical last 1% of spam, which often contains targeted threats and other dangerous email from sophisticated and well-financed attacker.
This unprecedented capability has been proven at one of the world’s largest email providers—Yahoo!—where it currently helps to catch more than 130 billion spam emails every month. Keep spam out of your inboxes the way Yahoo! does.
"Yahoo! is known for industry-leading spam protection, which ensures that 260 million users worldwide have a safe email experience. Abaca's sophisticated Receiver Reputation technology is a key asset that helps us block over 130 billion spam emails every month so that only the right messages make their way to the Inbox."
Set-and-forget
You can deploy the Abaca service right away—just install it in your network and you can be filtering mail within an hour.
It also reduces the burden on IT resources, eliminating the need to configure rules or keep up with lists. Self-tuning filter combines patented algorithm and real time-threat intelligence and knowledge of the receiver’s correspondence. Gain the Industry’s best protection against existing and future email threats with near zero system administration.
Features
Abaca ReceiverNet Protection Network
The Abaca ReceiverNet Protection Network is a highly secure network connecting together Abaca’s global base of customers. Your users will immediately benefit from real time-threat intelligence and proactive, instance protection.
User personalization
Abaca automates user personalization, empowering users to customize their definition of spam. For example, newsletters and travel offers can now be classified as spam or junk email based on what they release from held mail and mark as spam.
Secure appliance
The Email Protection Gateway appliance is based on a hardened and secure OS. The Web-based administration console and user quarantine are accessible through HTTPS.
Compatible with all email systems
The Email Protection Gateway works with all email systems and supports multiple Internet domains.
Ideal for organizations, small to medium businesses (SMB) and enterprises
The Email Protection Gateway comes in three models—the EPG 100 services up to 100 licensed users, the EPG 1000 handles up to 1,000 licensed users, and the EPG 3000 services up to 3,000 licensed users.
Abaca's Email Protection Gateway is the most effective protection against targeted, malicious and unwanted email including Spam—text, image, PDF, and other document types, Phishing, Spoofing, Backscatter, Invalid bounce, Spyware email attacks, Denial-of-service attacks, Directory harvest attacks.
Virus Technology Scans inbound messages and detects viruses before they are delivered to your users’ desktops.
Specifications
| Hardware Configuration | EPG 1000 | EPG 3000 |
|---|---|---|
| CHASSIS | ||
| Form Factor | 1U rack mountable system | 1U rack mountable system |
| Dimensions (in) | 16.8" (w) x 22.6" (d) x 1.7" (h) | 16.8" (w) x 22.6" (d) x 1.7" (h) |
| Dimensions (cm) | 42.7 cm (w) x 57.4 cm (d) x 4.3 cm (h) | 42.7 cm (w) x 57.4 cm (d) x 4.3 cm (h) |
| STORAGE | ||
| Capacity | (2) 160 GB 7200 RPM SATA Hot Swappable Hard Drives | (2) 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA Hot Swappable Hard Drives |
| Redundancy | Disk mirroring (RAID 1) | Disk mirroring (RAID 1) |
| NETWORKING | ||
| Ethernet | (2) embedded Gbit NICs | (2) embedded Gbit NICs |
| Serial | 1 DB-9 serial port | 1 DB-9 serial port |
| Power Consumption | 260W | 260W |
| Capacity | EPG 1000 | EPG 3000 |
|---|---|---|
| Email Capacity Per Day* | 1,400,000 | 4,000,000 |
| Active Email Users* | Up to 1,000 licensed users | Up to 5,000 licensed users |
| Domains | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Quarantine Storage | Approx. 250 GB | Approx. 500 GB |
