Implementing Email Security and Archiving Solutions from Symantec

Email usage has transformed how we conduct business and directly affects how rapidly and efficiently we may exchange information. Consequently, email has become a critical application service in the organization. As a result, email security and integrity are paramount concerns, as are email service availability and optimization technologies, including email archiving. Additionally, businesses face increasing regulatory requirements that mandate appropriate levels of record retention and management, including business records comprising varied forms of electronic messaging.

This white paper details, at a high level, how to achieve an advantageous combination of best-of-breed email security and archiving technologies from Symantec Corporation. These technologies can assist with satisfying the varying needs of email security, email archiving, and records retention associated with email and electronic messages. The hypothetical "Acme Corporation" and "Beta Corporation" that are discussed illustrate the example challenges and solutions associated with email security as it pertains to:

• Inbound email hygiene at the network perimeter and inside the organization
• Email content compliance with regard to outbound email and intra-organizational email
• Email archiving for storage management and optimization of Exchange Server services, as well as journaling and compliance-related capture of email messages passing through the organization to meet regulatory and/or privacy requirements

This white paper describes how two businesses (Acme and Beta Corporations) can deploy Symantec Mail Security appliances and software both within and without the organization to achieve email security and content compliance goals. It further describes how to integrate the Symantec technology with Veritas Enterprise Vault to ensure that necessary email messages are captured and retained in a cost-effective and usable manner, optionally including any necessary antivirus- and antispam-related messages that may need to be captured and retained in an appropriate low-cost and secured archive for compliance or privacy reasons. Email Security and Availability, Implementing Email Security and Archiving Solutions from Symantec.