Know your gear
The Symantec Mail Security 8100 series reduces total email volume by up to 50% by stopping spam before it enters the network while ensuring the continuous flow of legitimate mail. This significantly reduces administrative overhead, network bottlenecks, and mail infrastructure costs. Symantec offers the appliance that shapes email traffic at the TCP protocol level prohibiting spammers from forcing mail into a protected network. It scales to meet the needs of growing businesses and can be coupled with any antispam gateway solution to provide a comprehensive multi-layered approach to combat spam that is easy to deploy and manage. It uses Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam technology and response to counter spamming techniques and traffic patterns.