Secure Email Gateway

Block Prevalent Email Attacks with the Fortra Secure Email Gateway

Fortra's Secure Email Gateway (SEG) is an on-premise email security solution that monitors emails coming into and out of an organization before they ever reach an inbox. Powered by a Deep Content Inspection Engine, it detects and analyzes the content of incoming and outgoing emails down to 50 levels deep, protecting against spam, viruses, and evasive threats that slip past standard filtering.

The on-premise Fortra Secure Email Gateway (SEG) protects against spam, viruses, and prevalent threats including phishing, ransomware, and spam by leveraging a Deep Content Inspection Engine. This offers an additional layer of security for content or communications deemed suspicious.

IT teams need to ensure that information being shared across email both inside and out of the organization is not only secure, but appropriate and compliant. Fortra’s unparalleled level of inspection and granular policy controls apply the optimal security treatment to your emails in real time reducing the risk of data loss. This keeps your communications safe and flowing, without business disruptions.

Key Features of the Fortra Secure Email Gateway

The Fortra SEG is mail system-agnostic, scalable from SMEs to enterprises and can complement either a cloud-based solution, such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, or on-premise systems like Microsoft Exchange.

Using multiple anti-virus engines, the SEG provides inbound threat protection using traditional signature, heuristic, and cloud assisted lookups to deliver protection against malware, ransomware, and spyware.
Augment the AV engines with Active Code detection and an Active Code removal option or a cloud-based Sandbox from Sophos to detonate the file to ensure no zero-day attacks get through.
Malicious URLs in messages and attachments can be checked using several threat feeds, which can cause the message to be blocked, the URL to be sanitized, or the URL be rewritten so that if the link is clicked the URL will be processed by a Browser Isolation solution.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is not just an outbound problem. Depending on your business, you might need to control the content of what’s being received by your employees.
It is imperative that a thorough understanding of the message is performed by the deep content inspection capabilities in order to understand the email body, subject lines, and attachments (such as PDFs, Word documents, and images). This way, they can be scanned for critical information like intellectual property, employee’s personal information, or forgotten content like metadata, revision history, or customer data.
Metadata can include document classification tags from Fortra's Data Classification solutions which can signify whether the content is unclassified, classified, or even top secret.
The understanding of the content and the context is then applied into configured policies to determine if the message should be rejected, held, delivered, delivered encrypted, or sanitized in some way prior to delivery.
The SEG enables compliance with regulations (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) – detects, protects, and audits emails, and attachments to validate sensitive data. Then it applies the appropriate security remediation according to the specific regulation standards.

Encryption provides security and regulatory compliance needed to keep data secure. Multiple encryption options provide many ways to secure email content by verifying that messages cannot be read by the wrong recipients, and the message stays intact - not modified by anyone from sender to recipient.
The SEG encryption options allow policies to be based on sender, recipient, subject content, message body, attachment types, attachment content, message header or document metadata. Using encryption guarantees confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational data.

Fortra with Cryoserver addresses archiving and compliance in one platform.

Provides C-Level Executives with transparency
Adheres to corporate governance and risk management
Alleviates IT department storage concerns
Offers a forensic archive and compliance system
Retains full audited copies of all emails sent to, from, and within a business
Preserves data as required by courts and legal practice

Spam and phishing emails are dealt with by a multi-engine, multi-layered spam filtration system, incorporating Signature Engines with machine learning, DMARC, DKIM, SPF, IP Reputation, Greylisting, and URL analysis. This provides a highly accurate and flexible approach where messages can be blocked, held, or delivered with warnings — all based on policy.

Why Choose the Fortra SEG?

Complete Granular Control

Block, encrypt, or remove critical data to mitigate risk and ensure compliance 

100% Critical Data Visibility

Complete visibility and management of emails entering or leaving your organization

Minimize Business Disruptions

Maintain consistent collaboration and communication with employees, customers, and business partners

Product Specifications

Deep Content Inspection Engine

Far greater than any other structural level of verification on the market, Fortra's Deep Content Inspection Engine scans content in a multi-stage process:

Identifies the file type by file signature
Verifies the file structure conformity
Extracts content that violates rules in zipped or compressed files, document body, headers, footers, or embedded objects
Strips metadata from documents and image files
Records what it removed:

Anti-Virus

Providing a further inbound threat protection, Fortra works with the following anti-virus software engines:

Avira
Sophos
Sophos Sandbox

Encryption

The Fortra SEG appliance supports multiple encryption rules to allow companies to select the most appropriate methods for their different user communities, including:

TLS
S/MIME/PGP
Password-Protected ZIPs
Web Pickup Portal (recipients receive a link to a message)
- Ciphermail – On-premise encryption portal

Integrations

The Fortra SEG has built-in integrations with Garrison and Ericom for browser isolation. Browser isolation protects from web-based threats by isolating users away from their local networks and infrastructure, thereby allowing website access without compromising security.

On-Premise Deployment

Options

Managed or hosted in ISO-certified data centers
Public cloud deployment on Microsoft, Azure, or AWS
Private cloud virtual environment running VMware/Hyper V
Own or packaged hardware

Requirements

A standard RHEL-operating stack is required, which includes Microsoft Azure, AWS, or localized cloud providers. Fortra will take care of the installation and upgrades across platforms.