Tumbleweed Releases MailGate Appliance 3.0 to Deliver Comprehensive Inbound and Outbound Email Security; Powerful Dashboard Provides Single Point of Management and Visibility for All Email Security Functions and Servers

Business Wire, Oct 11, 2005

"Tumbleweed's intention has always been to lead the industry both in breadth and depth of solution offerings," said John Thielens, CTO of Tumbleweed. "The latest release of our MailGate Appliance gives our customers even more flexibility to build the best solution for their environment. The addition of content filtering and Edge Defense to our robust appliance version gives customers who want complete security in hardware form factor more options than ever before."

About MailGate 3.0

MailGate 3.0 offers comprehensive inbound and outbound email security, including:

--Antispam - protection from spam and phishing attacks

--Antivirus - protection from viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware

--Outbreak protection - zero hour protection from spam and virus outbreaks

--Network layer Edge defenses - protection from Dark Traffic, including Directory Harvest Attacks and email Denial-of-Service attacks

--Bi-directional content filtering - monitoring email traffic to identify data leakage and regulatory compliance violations

--Policy enforcement - a powerful, yet easy to use engine for delivering, re-routing, blocking, quarantining, archiving, or encrypting email messages based on corporate email policy

Scalable, flexible configuration:

--Support for multiple appliances for high volume processing and redundancy

--Transparent clustering with automated load balancing

--Local directory-based authentication for end users

--Centralized end-user queues

--High performance hardware

Centralized management and reporting:

--Single management console

--Consistent policy across appliances

--No need for additional, dedicated console

--Integrated solution - no extra products to buy for quarantine management or reporting

Tumbleweed MailGate Appliance version 3.0 is available now. The MailGate Appliance can be used stand-alone, or in combination with other Tumbleweed email security products to provide complete, multi-tier email security, email message encryption, and gateway to gateway secure communications.

About the Tumbleweed MailGate Product Suite

The Tumbleweed MailGate Suite is a family of products for protecting, filtering and monitoring corporate email. These best-in-breed products enable businesses to manage inbound and outbound traffic, block threats, encrypt messages and optimize network performance. MailGate products include Email Firewall software, MailGate Appliance, Edge and Secure Messenger, each optimized for specific environments and security challenges.

--MailGate Email Firewall: A comprehensive email security offering, with functionality ranging from inbound threat prevention to outbound content filtering, monitoring and encryption.

--MailGate Appliance: A powerful and easy-to-deploy hardened Linux appliance, providing integrated network edge defense, antispam, antivirus, content filtering, policy management, and outbound encryption.

--MailGate Edge: A secure email relay appliance that delivers state-of-the-art network-based email defense against Directory Harvest (DHA) and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.