CA Gateway Security 2012

CA Gateway Security r8.1 (formerly CA Secure Content Manager) is a unified, comprehensive gateway management solution that defends against business and network integrity threats at the gateway including viruses, spam, confidentiality breaches and exposure to email liability, mobile code threats and other offensive content usage. It also helps protect confidential data from leaving a business.

Key Features

12x5 phone-based support
Enhanced layers of anti-spam filtering and automatic updates
URL filtering
End-to-end content protection
Simplified administration
Corporate data guardian
Enables regulatory compliance
Protection from phishing, P2P file sharing and spyware
Web-based GUI for real-time user self-management
Ability to create custom reports
Role-based administration
Full support for active directory

Overview

CA Gateway Security r8.1 is a fully integrated, policy-based, multilayered gateway security solution that safeguards against the external transmission of proprietary, controlled or company-confidential information and intellectual property leakages and helps enterprises comply with government laws and regulations. A key feature offered is additional layers of spam filtering, including sender reputation, embedded URL filtering, malformed email detection and an evasion techniques dictionary that offers protection from unwanted and unsolicited emails – leading to business productivity and improved service continuity.

Addressing the Complex Content Security Challenge
As content security challenges continuously evolve around the globe, multiple layers of security are required enterprise-wide to protect against the growing number of business and security threats. Enterprises are in critical need of a single, comprehensive content management solution that defends against business and network integrity threats including viruses, spam, confidentiality breaches and exposure to email legal liability, mobile code threats and other offensive content usage.

The CA integrated threat management vision offers a modular, flexible and extensible architecture that enables enterprises to choose from a variety of CA security products. As part of this vision, eTrust SCM will be included in the CA Integrated Threat Management solution in the future. eTrust SCM is a fully integrated, highly scalable, multilayered solution that enables definition and deployment of a common enterprise-wide security policy, addressing inbound security threats including viruses, spam, phishing, malicious mobile code threats and other offensive content usage. eTrust SCM is also designed to protect against outbound threats such as confidential data, intellectual property, customer records, as well as offensive content leaving an enterprise. All of this enables regulatory compliance and leads to improved service continuity.

eTrust SCM customers can use the product as-is out of the box, and they are able to create custom rules to meet their specific requirements. eTrust SCM takes content security to the next level, offering excellent all-around content security protection for the gateway, complementing the CA Integrated Threat Management r8 security solution for endpoints. In addition, email archiving is also now available through CA iLumin to provide a comprehensive email solution.

Distinctive Features and Functionalities

Integrated Content Management – eTrust SCM is a fully integrated, comprehensive solution that addresses all email and web content threats and manages them remotely, offering comprehensive content protection at the gateway. The solution offers support for Windows platforms today. This eliminates the need to procure and deploy point products. The various components of this integrated solution include anti-spam protection and email filtering, anti-virus protection, web content security, URL filtering, and malicious mobile code defense.
End-to-End Content Protection – Provides integrated, multilayered, policy-driven email (SMTP) and web (HTTP, FTP) traffic scanning that addresses virtually every content threat at the gateway
Best-of-Breed Components – Offers best-of-breed anti-virus, anti-spam, inbound and outbound email filtering and web URL filtering. eTrust SCM also provides automated updates to ensure that enterprises are always fully protected from content threats.
Simplified Administration – Enables an enterprise to address and manage all email and web content threats remotely
Extensive Automated Actions and Alerts – Automated, customizable actions, such as block and quarantine, can be defined for each policy so that there is an immediate response when an object matches the policy criteria.
Complementary Email Archiving – Now available through CA iLumin to provide comprehensive email solutions
Corporate Data Guardian – Reduces information leaks by providing outbound email filtering that guards against the transmission of proprietary, controlled or company-confidential information including intellectual property outside your organization. In addition to emails, you can filter content in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF attachments.
Enables Regulatory Compliance – Enables enterprises to comply with government laws and regulations, such as the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), UK Data Privacy Act and California’s SB 1386, reducing the risk of costly penalties and lawsuits and safeguarding company reputation.
Robust Reporting – IT Administrators today require timely, accurate and relevant information at the touch of a button. The ability to report on the state of security within an enterprise is one of the most sought after needs. eTrust SCM provides extensive customizable reporting capabilities to assist with reporting and managing daily threat activities. eTrust SCM provides over 30 different types of detailed reports on email and web filtering that can provide information on an individual user or sender, such as a report on websites visited.
Expanded Language Support – Supports 10 languages including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
CA Security Advisor – The CA Security Advisor is staffed by CA’s industry-leading security researchers who monitor and research new security threats around the clock. Comprised of worldwide rapid response centers, CA Security Advisor provides 24/7 threat research and content development aggregating security data from over 400 sources using a patent-pending process for research, testing and validation of threats.
Certified by Industry Experts – The CA Security Advisor has played a key role in helping CA achieve internationally recognized detection and removal certifications for the anti-virus component of eTrust SCM from such organizations as ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs and Virus Bulletin. eTrust Antivirus owns the lead in the Virus Bulletin's VB 100% Award for detecting 100% of in-the-wild viruses.

CA has also received Checkmark certifications from West Coast Labs for detecting and disinfecting 100% of in-the-wild viruses. eTrust Antivirus is ICSA Labs-certified for detecting and cleaning 100% of in-the-wild viruses.

CA integrated threat management solutions enable you to implement your IT security strategy in alignment with industry best practices and regulations.

What’s New in r8

Enhanced Layers of Spam-filtering and Automatic Updates – Additional layers of spam filtering, including sender reputation, embedded URL filtering, malformed email detection and an evasion techniques dictionary that offers protection from unwanted and unsolicited emails and improves business productivity. eTrust SCM also provides automatic spam updates.
Protection from Phishing, P2P File Sharing & Spyware – Provides an added layer of security to prevent employees from unknowingly accessing malicious sites that contain or distribute spyware. Also provides the ability to control and block a common peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol, reducing the risk of legal liability that can result from the sharing of copyrighted material.
Real-time User Self-management – A new, easy-to-use, web-based interface that enables users to search and manage quarantined emails in real time, reducing the incidence of false positives. It also lets users add senders to their personal allow or deny lists.
Expanded Reporting – Provides over 30 reports and the option to create and save custom reports; delivered via an Ingres r3 Open Source database and SQL Server database.
Role-based Administration – Offers role-based administration that increases user management and control
Full Active Directory Support – Integrates with the active directory so that filters can be created for active directory users and groups
Improved Allow-list Management – To reduce the incidence of false positives, eTrust SCM can be configured to bypass any of the eTrust SCM filters, except for anti-virus scanning, from allow-listed senders.

What is the most important thing about this new release?
An integrated gateway security solution from CA that enterprises critically need today for managing spam, viruses, phishing attacks, spyware, offensive content usage and malicious mobile code.

The product's new name reflects the importance of the Gateway in combating internet threats within the corporate network.