Fortinet announces FortiMail-2000

Fortinet has expanded
and enhanced its FortiMail secure messaging appliances with the announcement of
FortiMail-2000, a new secure messaging appliance targeted at very large
enterprises, universities and managed security service providers (MSSPs). It
also unveiled Forti­Mail 2.2, a major new firmware release for its FortiMail
systems.

According to Fortinet,
its mail systems are purpose-built secure messaging appliances that offer
antispam defense-in-depth at the network perimeter and the mail server. The new
firmware announced adds an enhanced spam detection, checksum blocklist, greylist,
heuristics, and spam URI real-time blocklist to its FortiMail systems.

It also adds new
regulatory compliance features such as archiving and quarantining, custo­mizable
and granular spam reports, and inbound and outbound e-mail filtering and
reporting.

FortiMail-2000 adds to
the existing FortiMail-400 system designed for medium to large enterprises and
remote branch offices, the new system delivers scalable capacity, performance
and enhanced 2.2 firmware features to secure messaging for high-volume,
mission-critical infrastructures, the statement said.

The system includes
four-gigabit ethernet ports to meet the antispam requirements of large
enterprises and MSSPs without adversely affecting network performance. The new
mail system has six 120 GB hot-swappable hard disk drives, supports configurable
RAID-based storage and includes the performance capability to scan 6.8 million
emails daily.

Contact:
Fortinet India,

New Bridge, Business Center,

No # 40, Ulsoor Road,

Bangalore 560 042

Tel: 080-2532-5800