modusGate™ Email Security Appliance overview
Consistent very high catch-rate and negligible false-positives
modusGate™ Appliances offer the industry’s leading protection against spam, viruses, fraud, phishing and other unauthorized communication in a cost-effective solution. Our Email Security Appliance hardware comes pre-installed with Windows™ 2003 Server and provides you with an accessible, secure, non-Black Box server to which you can connect remotely through Remote Desktop (RDC) or locally with a monitor/keyboard/mouse. Vircom’s email security appliances support both modusGate™ (email security gateway) and modusMail™ (integrated spam and virus-filtering email server) software products.
Reliable, performant, flexible and standards-based best describe our series of modusGate™ appliances.
modusGate™ Email Security Appliance Specifications
| SCOPE | m150 |
|---|---|
| Target business type | Small to medium-sized organizations |
| Number of domains | Unlimited |
| Number of users/mailboxes | 2,000 |
| Throughput (messages/day) (1) | 5 million msg/day |
| MECHANICAL | |
| Rackmount chassis | 1U |
| Dimensions (in.) | 16.8” x 1.7” x 22.6” |
| Dimensions (cm) | 42.7 x 4.3 x 57.4 |
| Power consumption (Idle/Max) | Idle: 102 W Max: 139 W |
| SYSTEM | |
| Operating System (OS) | Windows 2003 Server |
| Database Engine | MS SQL Express 2005 |
| Remote Desktop Connection access | |
| Monitor/Keyboard/Mouse access | |
| HARDWARE | |
| CPU model | Intel Core 2 Duo 4300 |
| CPU speed | 1.8 Ghz |
| Front Side Bus | 533 Mhz FSB |
| Chipset | Intel 3210 + ICH9R |
| Installed RAM | 4 GB DDR2 800MHz SDRAM |
| Maximum RAM | 4 DIMM sockets (up to 8 GB DDR2 SDRAM) |
| Ethernet Connectivity | 2 x Gigabit (Intel 82573L) |
| Hard Disk storage | 2 x SATA 160 GB SATA RAID-1 |
| Redundant Disk Array (RAID) | RAID 0,1 |
| Hot-Swappable Disks | |
| Power Supply | 300 W |
| USB Ports | 1 x USB 2.0 |
| Keyboard Port | 1 x Keyboard Port |
| Serial Port | 1 x Serial Port |
| Monitor Port | 1 x VGA |
| EMAIL SECURITY | |
|---|---|
| Perimeter Defense –Real Time Black Lists (RBLs) | |
| Trusted/Blocked Senders Lists | |
| Sender Reputation System | |
| Greylisting | |
| Sequential Content Analyzer (SCA™) | |
| Reverse DNS | |
| Sender Policy Framework | |
| PDF/Image Spam & Phishing | |
| Connection Level Blocking | |
| Block Scan Attack | |
| Mail Cloaking | |
| SMTP Security | |
| POLICY MANAGEMENT | |
| Sieve Scripting Engine for restriction free Policy Management | |
| Language Filtering | |
| Support for Encryption-TLS & SSL | |
| EMAIL AUTHENTICATION & COMPLIANCE | |
| DKIM (inbound & outbound) | |
| Versatile integrated Sieve Scripting Engine | |
| Custom Rules | |
| VIRUS DEFENSE | |
| McAfee | |
| Norman | |
| MANAGEMENT TOOLS | |
| WebQuarantine | |
| Quarantine reports | |
| Audit logs | |
| Reporting: Server, domain and user stats and trend analysis | |
| System overview and threats at a glance | |
| SNMP monitoring |
(1) Throughput with aggressive connection-level blocking. Numbers will vary depending on enabled options.


