KasperskyLinux Mail Server Security
Designed for integration with a variety of Linux-based mail systems, Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server delivers security, flexibility and ease of management in a single application that includes cloud-assisted technologies.
Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server provides next-generation email protection from known and unknown threats, including spam, phishing and malicious attachments. This is accomplished by multiple layers of machine learning-powered security, including multi-factor heuristic, sandboxing and reputation system for emails and attachments, which also achieves an extremely low rate of false positives.
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FEATURES
Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server includes the latest version of Kaspersky’s award-winning anti-malware engine. Furthermore, it receives real-time information from the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) – so you benefit from a Linux mail server antivirus solution that delivers even better performance in detecting and removing malicious attachments from incoming emails including exploits, unknown and advanced malware.
With real-time updates from the cloud, Kaspersky’s Web malicious URL filter blocks emails that include links to infected sites or malicious files.
Embedding malicious scripts into Office files is a popular technique used by extremely dangerous specimen such as ExPetr / Petya / NotPetya. Kaspersky’s next-generation anti-malware provides effective protection against such threats.
Anti-spam and content filtering
Kaspersky’s anti-spam engine includes two powerful technologies:
Enforced Anti-Spam Updates Service (EASUS) – which uses push technology, directly from the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network, to deliver real-time updates. By reducing the ‘update window’ from 20 minutes to less than 1 minute, EASUS helps to protect against Zero-Hour spam and spam epidemics.
Cloud-assisted Reputation Filtering – can ‘rate’ suspicious emails, place them in quarantine and then recheck them when updated information becomes available. This helps to defend you against unknown spam – while also reducing the number of false positives.
Kaspersky’s new anti-phishing module receives real-time updates from the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network – for more effective detection and blocking of emails that contain links to phishing websites.
You can easily set policies to block unwanted mass mail from reaching your end users.
Suspicious messages are placed in the anti-spam quarantine, managed from the web interface. These messages can be reviewed later.
For organizations using MS Exchange, the Spam Confidence Level (SCL) rating, which lets users define actions for messages according to SCL thresholds, is now included.
Supports internationalized (non-Latin) characters in email addresses.
Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server now detects messages containing Unicode spoofing, which uses Unicode symbols visually resembling proper characters used in legitimate mail addresses and URLs.
Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server now recognizes and blocks certain types of files within archives and compound objects, providing detection inside multi-layered archives widely used by scammers.
Integration support
You can choose the method of integration, depending on your Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) – so you can integrate as a plug-in or a Milter API.
The Kaspersky Anti-Virus On-Demand Scanner allows on-demand virus checking of objects – including directories, regular files and devices such as hard drives, flash drives and DVD-ROMs.
Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server supports integration with Linux mail systems using the high-performance AMaViS interface.
Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server can be integrated with KATA – Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform. After integration, the application can send copies of messages to KATA for scanning. Based on the results of the KATA scan, the application can then block individual messages.
Suspicious messages are placed in the KATA quarantine, managed from the web interface.
For those organizations that cannot participate in Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server can now integrate with Kaspersky Private Security Network (KPSN).
After integration with KPSN, the application can use the KSN reputation databases locally, benefitting from the latest, globally acquired threat intelligence - without sending any data outside the organization.
At-a-glance monitoring and flexible reporting
Kaspersky’s easy-to-use management console, Kaspersky Security Center, gives you the ability to monitor security for all your Linux mail servers – including clusters – from a single console. If a security incident occurs, the system administrator will automatically be informed about the affected server and the cause of the issue.
Help desk specialists can now access a user’s backup and personal denylists/allowlists – via a standard web interface, without disturbing system administrators or end users.
The web dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of status and monitoring, including information about the most recently found malware.
SNMP support lets you monitor any type of event, using SNMP events and traps.
You can choose your method of application management – using the Web console or command line interface (CLI).
Customisable reports help you to monitor and analyse your security and policies.
Administrators and document owners are informed about policy violation incidents – so immediate action can be taken.
Detailed information about all product actions is automatically recorded – to help you to identify the cause of a problem.
Generate an archive of information about the operation of Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server to send to Kaspersky Technical Support.
Authorized Helpdesk account users can access application performance reports.
Schedule and configure notifications to users about the results of their scanned messages. Notifications contain a list of the latest messages in Backup.
For those using SIEM systems, the logs can now be generated in Common Event Format (CEF), enriching your picture of corporate security with mail-related events.
Easy to install and maintain
Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server is delivered as a set of OS-specific installation packages – and a special, post-installation script makes it easy to deploy the application and integrate it with an existing mail system.
Integration helps you in setting up rules and policies. Communication between Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server and LDAP server can be encrypted using TLS or SSL.
Kaspersky makes it easy for you to implement group-based scanning policies and rules.
You can use IPv6 naming for Internet addresses, when creating traffic rules.
The entire system can be easily migrated from a test server to a production environment, so you can thoroughly test the system before you roll it out.
In addition to running manual updates – for the antivirus, anti-spam and anti-phishing modules technologies – you can also specify rules for fully automatic updates.
Licensing and subscription management
BENEFITS
Kaspersky’s Linux mail server security solution includes advanced spam detection technologies that help to minimise the number of spam messages that get through to your email system – so there are fewer distractions and disruptions for your users.
Because Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server also achieves a very low rate of false positives, your email system benefits from rigorous protection – without the inconvenience and disruptions that result from large volumes of legitimate emails being incorrectly identified as spam and being quarantined.
Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server incorporates Enforced Anti-Spam Updates Service (EASUS) – to reduce your email system’s ‘window of exposure’ to newly launched spam attacks. Integration with the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) ensures your email system receives real-time information about new spam – as soon as it’s available on Kaspersky’s cloud-based database.
In addition, Kaspersky’s cloud-based Reputation Filtering technology uses sophisticated content-analysis tools to identify possible spam – and it employs cloud-assisted capabilities to ‘compare notes with other users’. As a result, you benefit from a Linux mail server security solution that processes messages with minimal latency, while it further reduces the number of false positives and increases the overall detection rate.
Kaspersky’s latest anti-phishing module also receives real-time updates from the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network. So you benefit from improved detection that can defend your corporate email system – and your users – against emails that contain links to phishing websites.
With our latest anti-virus engine, Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server achieves high detection rates and faster scanning – to deliver Linux mail server anti-virus capabilities that achieve rapid, accurate detection of malicious email attachments.
Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server has been designed to deliver high throughput – without significantly affecting the performance of your systems… and that helps to boost efficiency for your business.
Powerful email traffic rules and support for OpenLDAP and Active Directory, help you to implement your corporate policies – while you also give users the ability to set up their own personal denylists/allowlists and manage their own quarantined items… which helps to reduce the number of calls to your helpdesk.
You can integrate Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server’s reporting and monitoring facilities into your existing monitoring system (SNMP), or you can manage the application via Kaspersky Security Center – Kaspersky’s easy-to-use management console.
Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server can be integrated with popular Linux-based Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) – including Postfix, Sendmail, Exim and qmail. In addition, because the application can be integrated with Linux-based mail systems using AMaViS, it’s easy to upgrade from an open-source anti-virus scanner to the rigorous protection offered by Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server. The application also supports IPv6.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
The application can be used as a secure mail gateway (with MTA). It provides anti-virus, anti-spam and anti-phishing protection for Linux mail servers.
- Intel® Xeon 3040 processor or Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz or faster
- 2 GB RAM
- At least 4 GB available for swap
- 4 GB available on the hard drive to install application and store temporary files and log files
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Server
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
- CentOS-6.6
- Ubuntu Server 12.04.4 LTS
- Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS
- Debian GNU / Linux 7.7
- Debian GNU / Linux 6.0.10
- FreeBSD 8.3
- FreeBSD 9.3
- FreeBSD 10.1
One of the following 64-bit operating systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Server
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
- CentOS-6.9
- CentOS-7.3
- Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 LTS
- Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS
- Debian GNU / Linux 8.8, 9.0
- FreeBSD 11
Availability of the following packages of 32-bit libraries on 64-bit operating systems:
- ia32-libs for Debian and Ubuntu
- libgcc.i686, glibc.i686 for RHEL and CentOS
- libgcc-32bit, glibc-32bit for SUSE
- lib32 for FreeBSD 64bit
- compat9x for FreeBSD 11
Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server requires the Perl 5 programming language version 5.8.5 or later.
Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server supports integration with the following mail servers:
- exim-4.86 or later
- postfix-2.6 or later
- sendmail-8.14 or later
- qmail-1.03 or later
To run the web interface of Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server, one of the following browsers must be installed on the computer:
- Mozilla Firefox 53 or later
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or later
- Google Chrome 58 or later
To enable the operation of the web interface of Kaspersky Security 8 for Linux Mail Server, an Apache 2.4 web server must be installed on the computer hosting the web interface.
Supports the following 32-bit libraries on 64-bit operating systems:
- ia32-libs for Debian and Ubuntu
- libgcc.i686, glibc.i686 for RHEL and CentOS
- libgcc-32bit, glibc-32bit for SUSE
- ib32 for FreeBSD 64bit
- compat9x for FreeBSD 10
Supported mail servers
- exim-4.71 or later
- postfix-2.5 or later
- qmail-1.03 or later
- sendmail-8.14 or later
Supported browsers – for use of web interface
- Mozilla Firefox 34 or later
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or later
- Google Chrome 39 or later
Supported web servers
- Apache 2.2, 2.4
Note: Before installing Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server interface, the following Apache modules must be installed and enabled: mod_ssl, mod_include, mod_dir and mod_expires. The modules can be enabled by using cmd command a2enmod: a2enmod ssl, a2enmod include, a2enmod dir and a2enmod expires.
Kaspersky Security for Linux Mail Server protects internal and remote users (laptops, tablets and smartphones) from spam, phishing and both generic and advanced malware threats.
Protect mail servers from spam, phishing and every type of malware without impacting performance.
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