New gateway security product offers advanced spam protection features and email monitoring capabilities to large, medium and small businesses.

CA, Inc., an independent IT management software company, today announced the immediate availability of its new CA Gateway Security r8.1, formerly known as the eTrust Secure Content Manager. The company states that the new product provides a unified gateway solution that helps organizations of any size avoid data confidentiality breaches. By capitalizing on existing features such as CA anti-spam engines and smart filter technology, CA Gateway Security r8.1 offers a multi-layered approach to data protection, it claims.

The company articulates that CA Gateway Security r8.1 helps protect businesses of any size by safeguarding against the outbound transmission of confidential information. The product, designed to secure, monitor, filter and block potential threats from messaging and web traffic, facilitates security compliance and removes obstacles to employee productivity, which contributes to overall business continuity. CA Gateway Security r8.1 comes equipped with a phishing detection system that is designed to prevent spam using sender "reputation" recognition software, embedded URL filtering and malformed email detection. In addition, a new statistics function provides users with spam report summary emails, giving users greater insight into the performance of the spam program monitoring process.

The company claims that additional features to CA Gateway Security r8.1 include:

• New Microsoft Outlook plug-in for enhanced end-user spam control and notification
• Improved spam, URL filtering and anti-virus engines
• Desktop notifications when new messages are sent to quarantine folders at the gateway
• Increased usability with improved communications to the end user regarding spam mail status
• Enhanced role-based integration that allows administrators to grant spam management capabilities to end users
• Integration of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) templates to avoid overloading the Active Directory server with reconnection attempts
  

Bill Taub, vice president of Global IT Security for CA noted, "The new CA Gateway Security r8.1 release has reduced our overall spam load by over 90%. That means less work for our servers, significantly less spam reaching our end users and a greatly improved email experience for our end users."

"With data breaches continuing to plague enterprises as well as small and medium sized businesses, organizations need to protect their assets with software that prevents gateway breach attempts," said Erik Bertel, principal product manager for CA's Internet Security Business Unit. "Our new CA Gateway Security r8.1 provides multi-layered security and reduces IT burdens by centralizing threat management technology into one single console. This way, businesses of any size can efficiently manage their security systems and streamline business processes."