When it comes to email archiving, businesses require features that go beyond simple message replication in order to meet expanding regulations. And because every email solution, whether it’s on-premises or in the cloud, needs strong anti-spam/anti-malware filtering, it makes sense to combine archiving and security into a single product. To address the growing demand for a combined email security/archiving solution, archiving was added to SecurityGateway for Email in version 6.0.
SecurityGateway’s integrated archiving helps businesses meet compliance regulations
When SecurityGateway 6.1 was released, the integrated archiving feature received a major upgrade with the addition of these features for legal compliance and cloud email integration:
Legal Hold
Security Gateway’s Legal Hold feature will prevent emails from being deleted from the archive, regardless of any other settings, user permissions, or retention periods.
Legal Hold - Security Gateway for Email Servers
Minimum Archive Retention Period
Businesses must meet a variety of data retention laws, and these laws vary by country or region. In the United States, many businesses must store archived emails in compliance with the following laws and retention policies:- IRS Regulations (for all companies) – 7 Years
- Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX – For all public companies) – 7 Years
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA – Federal, state & local agencies) – 3 Years
- Department of Defense Regulations (for contractors) – 3 Years
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) – 7 Years
To meet these and other growing regulations, administrators can assign a minimum retention period for all archived email messages. During this time, archived messages cannot be deleted regardless of any other settings or user permissions.
Email Retention Period - Security Gateway for Email Servers
Improved Cloud/Hosted Email Integration for Microsoft 365 & Azure
SecurityGateway’s automatic user creation feature helps reduce administrator workload by verifying whether an email sent to or from a local domain contains a valid email address, and then automatically adding the account once the email address has been verified. With the release of Security Gateway 6.1, this process got much easier for businesses using cloud email services, with a new option to verify users by querying Microsoft 365 or Azure Active Directory.
Microsoft 365 & Azure User Verification - SecurityGateway for Email Servers
Other New Features introduced in SecurityGateway 6.1
Other new features for SecurityGateway include:
- Allowlist & Blocklist Search - A search field was added to the Allowlist and Blocklist screens to help administrators find listed email addresses more easily.
- Quarantine reports can now be sorted by score. This makes it easier to identify false-positives, which will likely have lower scores.
For the complete list of updates, please see the SecurityGateway release notes.
If you aren’t yet protecting your business email with Security Gateway for Email Servers, visit the Security Gateway product page for an overview of its features, or visit the Download page to download a free trial!
Security Gateway Hosted/Cloud services are also available.
