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Email Security Gateway single-appliance deployments

Applies to

Email Security Gateway v7.6

Email Security Gateway Anywhere v7.6

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Single appliance

Single appliance with hybrid service

Single appliance

This simple deployment uses a single V-Series appliance, which can be either a V10000 G2 or V5000 G2 machine.

In this Email Security Gateway installation, all spam and virus filtering occurs in Email Security Gateway using the product's collection of antispam and antivirus engines and tools. Data Security data loss prevention (DLP) policies filter mail for acceptable usage and sensitive company data. See the TRITON - Email Security Help for information about Email Security filtering tools.

Single appliance with hybrid service

This deployment uses a single V-Series appliance, which can be either a V10000 G2 or V5000 G2 machine.

This Email Security Gateway Anywhere environment includes the Email Security hybrid service "in the cloud" filtering. Register for the hybrid service in the Email Security Gateway management interface (Settings > General > Hybrid Configuration). See the TRITON - Email Security Help for details.

The hybrid service prevents malicious email traffic from entering a company's network by:

Dropping a connection request based on the reputation of the IP address of the request

Scanning inbound email against a database of known spam and viruses, and dropping any message that matches a database entry

The hybrid service may also share spam and virus detection information by writing extended headers in the mail it sends to Email Security Gateway. The additional header information includes a spam/virus detection "score," which Email Security then uses to determine message disposition.

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