Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance is a group of modular solutions that can be installed on appliances running Unix-family (Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris(x86) operating systems. The solutions work as a corporate Internet-gateway – a proxy-server used to provide access to the Internet to intranet users.
Depending on your licensing scheme and the set of selected plugins solutions of
Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance can perform the following tasks:
- process incoming and outdoing mail and filter out viruses and spam;
- scan http and ftp traffic for viruses;
- detect and remove any malicious objects;
- parse e-mails and analyze each component of a message;
- filter e-mail according to white and black lists;
- process correctly archived files of most known formats including multi-volume and self-extracting (SFX) archives;
- notify recipients or other selected users on results of scanning using templates ensuring that provided information is easy to read
- collect statistics regarding all activities of the system;
- protect its own plug-ins against failures.
Benefits
Dr.Web means its own technologies and anti-virus laboratory
Dr.Web anti-virus technology has been developed since 1992 and is owned by Doctor Web.
here are few anti-virus vendors in the world with their own technologies for detecting and curing malware, a virus monitoring service and an analytical laboratory. It provides a rapid response to latest threats and allows solving any problems of customers in a few hours.
Large enterprise network experience
Dr.Web solutions for small and medium-sized companies and large corporate networks with dozens of thousands of computers have been developed and improved since 1992. The State Duma of Russia, its Defense and Foreign ministries FSB (Federal Security Service) and many other enterprises, educational institutions and research departments trust anti-virus solutions from Doctor Web.
Openness of the solutions
As usual, Doctor Web makes its contribution to development of open source anti-virus products. Solutions included in Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance have an unlimited potential for expanding their functionality. Virtually any user with a sufficient skill can implement a desired feature using the source code and the SDK supplied with the software.
Exceptional scalability
Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance can perfectly suite needs of a small company with just one e-mail server and meet the unlimited e-mail filtering requirements of transnational telecoms or Internet service providers, Its efficiency, flexibility of settings and capability of filtering huge volumes of e-mail traffic “on-the-fly” can comply even with highest demands.
Optimal configuration
Configuration of servers with preinstalled Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance is the result of thorough optimization. Solutions match requirements of a customer perfectly. Flexible licensing system allows a company to pay only for functionality it is going to use. A server based on Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance is a high-performance solution at a best price.
Reliable protection
State-of-the art technologies ensure high-speed scan of traffic that doesn’t after Internet access speed and runs unnoticed by users. The solutions feature latest Dr.Web technologies that sheilf user machines from malware and spam. Automatic updating system allows maintaining a high level of security.
High productivity and stable operation
Multi-thread scan feature enables Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance processing simultaneously large amounts of data. Well-designed modular structure makes it impossible for an attacker to disable a solution. Well-known low system requirements of Dr.Web products allow running them on any server hardware.
Easy installation
Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance fully complies with the “plug and play” principle making installation and maintenance extremely easy even for an inexperienced user. The installation procedure was designed to exclude any possible configuration errors by staff and reduces time of deployment to several minutes. Installation of an appliance doesn’t affect configuration of computers in a corporate network.
Flexible configuration and easy administration
Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance allows implementing any protection scheme tailored to the security policy of your company. The solutions have flexible configuration system so virtually any required set of rules can be created by a system administrator. All actions related to the network security are logged. The logged data can be used to analyze network health and pinpoint vulnerabilities. The convenient user alert system that issues virus warnings and notifies a user upon loading of a web-page containing malicious code will assist you in conforming to the security policy of your company.
Frequent updating
An add-on to the Dr.Web virus database is released when new entries are added as often as several times per hour. Hot add-ons are released immediately after a new threat has been analyzed. The global virus monitoring network delivers latest samples of viruses from all over the world. Users retrieve updates from several servers located on different parts of the globe.
Various licensing schemes make
Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance a good choice for a company of any size that may get a configuration it actually needs. The following types of licenses are available:
- by type of solution: Protection of e-mail, protection of Internet-gateways;
- By type of protection: Anti-virus, anti-virus&anti-spam.
Licensed components
- Dr.Web Daemon — an anti-virus server 4.33 (or higher) that processes scan and cure requests from filters sent as files or using sockets. Dr.Web Daemon features the same engine and the database as other Dr.Web scanners and is capable of detecting and curing all known viruses.
- Dr.Web smtp-proxy — a plugin included in the solution protecting mail services. It receives and relays e-mail via SMTP/LMTP protocols.
- Dr.Web Icap-server — communicates with a proxy-server over ICAP protocol and intercepts HTTP and FTP traffic.
- Basic components of the software, monitoring and external communication utilities.
- Dr.Web console scanner for Unix — a program that can be run in the text mode or in the X Window terminal.
- Automatic updating utility.
- SDK for development of extra plugins.
Licensing
Address license
Any other number of addresses over 5. Aliases are not counted. If 50 addresses or less are licenced, all of them are listed in a special file. A message will be scanned only if one of addresses located in an SMTP envelope is identical to a protected address (the comparison is not case-sensitive). So if foo@bar.example.com can send messages with sender foo, foo@bar.example.com or foo@example.com, the three addresses should be listed in the file. If a message scan is rejected due to invalid licence (expiration/black list), a corresponding text will be inserted in such a message.
Per server license
The license allows using Dr.Web Daemon to scan unlimited mail traffic of one server with the number of protected addresses limited by 3000. The amount of scanned traffic can be limited only by capabilities of your hardware.
Licensing of SDK
SDK is shipped with the product free of charge. A third party developer is free to develop and distribute their plugins created using the SDK free of charge. Certification is required for the commercial use of developed plugins.
Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance already runs on appliances from various manufacturers.
May 4, 2008
Doctor Web and Sun Microsystems have successfully completed testing of a brand-new security gateway featuring software of both companies. The testing has confirmed that the gateway run on Sun Fire Х4150 platform enhanced by Dr.Web Mail Security Suite for Unix Appliance and Dr.Web Gateway Security Suite for Unix Appliance provides reliable protection against viruses and spam under toughest conditions and may come in handy for a company of any scale at low costs.
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December 5, 2007
Doctor Web and InternetNow International – a provider of security products and services launch the True.Mail security appliance based on Dr.Web technologies. InternetNow! True.Mail is another appliance manufactured using Dr.Web Gateway Security Suite for Unix Appliance.
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November 23, 2007
Doctor Web, Etegro Technologies and a Moscow branch of Novell announce a release of an appliance server designed to protect mail and Internet traffic of medium and large companies. The new appliance is based on Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and pre-installed Dr.Web Security Suite for Unix Appliance.
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