The BIG-IP Message Security Module (MSM) is the industry’s fi rst reputation-based network edge security module. Leveraging reputation data from Secure Computing’s TrustedSource™ multi-identity reputation engine, MSM extends protection for enterprise message applications to the edge of the corporate network – providing businesses with a more powerful and effi cient tool for dealing with the growing volume of unwanted email. BIG-IP MSM can eliminate up to 70 percent of unwanted email at the edge of the network utilizing TrustedSource – before it gets through the fi rewall – signifi cantly increasing the scaling capacity of existing enterprise anti-spam solutions. BIG-IP MSM incorporates reputation-based message management, which goes far beyond blocking the known ‘bad’ emails by giving customers the ability to set up sophisticated message distribution policies, based on sender reputation. This allows enterprises to intelligently fi lter or divide messages among multiple message scanning infrastructure tiers for a faster and more cost-effective approach. MSM is part of the F5 family of security solutions for Message infrastructure – enabling organizations to reduce their bandwidth expenditures, use fewer server resources, reduce their business continuity risks, and lower their overall infrastructure costs. Because BIG-IP MSM runs on F5’s TMOS architecture, it is easy to install as an add-on module to existing BIG-IP version 9.x systems. Best of all, customers can benefi t from this BIG-IP capability to reduce the load on any type of second tier anti-spam inspection, providing more diversity for fi ltering and reducing the number of devices required.
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