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Sendmail UNveils HIPAA Compliant Sentrion Message Processor

(Aug 07, 2007)-- Sendmail, provider of policy-centric solutions for securing and managing business communications, announced the availability of Sentrion Message Processor (MP), a next-generation messaging security appliance. Sentrion MP is the first high-performance appliance that offers all-in-one protection for both inbound and outbound messages ─ obsolescing single-purpose Messaging Gateways that only protect companies from inbound threats, or only manage company policies related to outbound messaging. With Sentrion MP, organizations can dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of securing and managing corporate email by enabling both inbound and outbound message protection in a single appliance ─ without degrading message processing performance.

In order to comply with corporate governance and regulatory requirements, businesses must begin integrating both the monitoring and enforcement processes of their business messaging policies. To effectively accomplish this, their bi-directional messaging solution needs to sit in-line on the network and enforce policies without impacting end users, workflow, or messaging network performance.

The Sentrion MP appliance obsoletes the current practice of purchasing separate and costly single-purpose appliances for blocking spam and viruses, authenticating incoming and outgoing messages, securing and encrypting email, or the monitoring and enforcement of corporate compliance policies.

Sentrion MP is a purpose-built, high-performance in-line appliance specifically designed to help companies secure and manage their inbound and outbound messaging requirements in one box.

* Integrated inbound and outbound mail gateway management, encryption and security in a single appliance
* Inbound message scanning, filtering and authentication
* Outbound content monitoring and security enforcement with compliance workflows and bundled policies
* The ability to add new applications that enforce pre-defined roles, reporting templates and industry-specific vertical applications
* Intra-company mail routing and off-loading of Microsoft Exchange environments
* No performance degradation on inbound or outbound messaging flow

Key Features of Sentrion MP

* A high-performance industry-standard Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with intelligent Gateway Connection Controls offers high throughput and intelligent message routing, and secures, monitors and regulates message traffic. Domain Keys Identified Email (DKIM), the only IETF-approved standard for email authentication.

* Centralized policy management and a highly intelligent policy engine are delivered with flexible clustering support to enable policy management and enforcement for organizations of any size. Centrally manage systems that are distributed by country, region, business unit, and more. With deep, in-line content and inspection, the policy engine satisfies the requirements of the most complex and regulated businesses.

* With highly accurate, out-of-the-box policies for compliance workflows, acceptable use, and confidential information protection, organizations gain immediate enforcement of policies based on industry best practices for Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, CA SB136, HIPAA, ITAR, Explicit Language, PCI, and more.

* Intelligent policy-based and clientless email encryption protects confidential information without impacting existing businesses processes and is completely transparent to end-users. The fully integrated encryption architecture reduces the costly administrative and deployment issues of having separate encryption and decryption servers while the Identity-Based Encryption technology greatly reduces the complexity of key management.

* A dashboard with workflow and incident remediation offers integrated and centralized reporting for incident trends and compliance. Detailed drill-down reports provide greater incident and attack analysis, and remediation workflows are based on best practices for incident responses.

* Role-based access controls give individual business stakeholders custom reporting views, and provide for a collaboration workflow among functional groups.

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