SpamTitan for VMware® - Technical Specifications

SpamTitan provides feature rich functionality to allow you manage and protect your email. Below are details as well as technical information to allow you to download and install SpamTitan

Features

Dual Anti Virus Protection	SpamTitan includes both the award winning ClamAV and Kaspersky Labs Antivirus engines offering double scanning of all incoming and outgoing email. Both anti virus engine are auto updating thus ensuring the least management and utmost protection.
Multi Layered Spam Analyses	To ensure the highest continuous levels of spam accuracy SpamTitan uses a comprehensive layered approach to separate genuine email from spam. These include Sender Policy Framework, Recipient verification, SURBL’s, RBL’s Bayesian analyses, keyword, header and body text analyses, customised scoring algorithms as well as many other customised rules. These combine to give email an over all score which defines it as spam or not.
Content filtering	SpamTitan can block unwanted attachments including file types, mime types and renamed files. This can be enabled at both the domain and user level allowing administrators to block unwanted content in line with the organisations email policy.
End User Spam Management	SpamTitan allows you to push the daily management of spam to the end user. Using the spam digest feature end users have full visibility of all email blocked by SpamTitan. Using hyperlinks included in the digest, from their inbox the end user has the ability to release any required email without having to resort to the company helpdesk.
Full Reporting Suite	SpamTitan contains a comprehensive reporting suite providing automated graphical reports including top spam recipients, top email recipients and many more. There is also a “live report” of all email as it passes through SpamTitan with full search capabilities.
Outbound disclaimers	In line with your email policy framework disclaimers can be attached to outgoing email. You decide the text of this disclaimer.
Multiple Domains Supported	SpamTitan can be configured to accept email for an unlimited amount of domains which in turn can be relayed to an unlimited amount of email servers.
Configurable on both a domain and user level	All rules can be set at both the domain and user level. This allows detailed configuration for all requirements across the business.
Fully Automated updating, backup and reporting	All updates, including anti virus, anti spam, new version releases, configuration back up, Bayesian back up and management reports are automated, thus requiring the minimal management overhead possible.
Whitelists and Blacklists	Whitelists and blacklists can be configured for the user or at a domain level and to allow/block by full email address or by domain
Administrator and end user Quarantine management	SpamTitan provides both the administrator and end user with a search and retrieval functionality for their email quarantine management.
Full Diagnostics Reporting	SpamTitan contains a comprehensive suite of diagnostic tests and reports providing both the administrator and SpamTitan support with all the information required to fully investigate any support issues. This includes the ability to send a canned diagnostic report to SpamTitan support and remote ssh authenticated log on from SpamTitan support
Web Bases GUI	All SpamTitan features are accessed using an intuitive web based interface. This allows controlled access from the network and removes the need for client based management software. Restrictions can also be put in place to limit who and where this interface can be accessed from.

Operating System

SpamTitan for VMware® is specifically designed to run on VMware®.The download contains both the SpamTitan application and its own operating system, a hardened Linux platform, including scripts for self installation. There is no operating system requirement. You will require a copy of VMware® running on your server or workstation. SpamTitan for VMware has been tested on the following versions:

• VMware Workstation®
• VMware Server®
• VMware Player®

Minimum Hardware Requirements

<1000>	<2000>	<5000>	>5000 Users	>20,000 Users
Intel Pentium® 4 (or equivalent) 2.5Ghz Processor 512MB RAM, 40 GB Disk, 1 Ethernet Port	Intel Pentium® 4 (or equivalent) 2.5Ghz Processor 512MB RAM, 80 GB Disk, 1 Ethernet Port	Intel Pentium® 4 (or equivalent) 3Ghz Processor 512MB RAM, 80 GB Disk, 1 Ethernet Port	Intel Pentium® 4 (or equivalent) 3Ghz Processor 1GB RAM, 80 GB Disk, 2 Ethernet Ports	Please Contact helpdesk@spamtitan.com

Download Times and Instructions

• The SpamTitan for VMware® image file is less than 30MB
• For DSL connection it should take less than 10 minutes to download
• Download SpamTitan image for VMware®. For further information on which VMware® product is right for your organisation click here.
• Download and install VMware® if you do not have it installed already.
• Using your version of VMware® load the SpamTitan image.
• Configure SpamTitan and Protect your email.