FrontBridge Business & Technology James Hamilton GM FrontBridge

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FrontBridge Business & Technology James Hamilton GM FrontBridge Technologies [email protected]

Agenda FrontBridge Overview Customers & Business model Global, Load-Balanced Network FrontBridge Service Offerings Email Security Inbound: Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Content & Policy Filtering Outbound: Anti-Virus & Information Leak Protection Business-to-Customer email encryption Message Archiving Archiving & AMC Demo Active Message Continuity

FrontBridge Snapshot Overview Founded 1999 160 employees in US, Canada and Europe 80 in R&D, Client Support & Operations Moved HQ team from LA to Redmond Winnipeg team stays in place Customers Microsoft Acquired Aug 31, 2005 Global Customers 3,200 customers world-wide Coverage in leading verticals Financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, legal, healthcare Global Distribution Global Network Nine globally-distributed data centers Processing over 6 billion messages per month 100% historic uptime Eight global partners & direct sales force Global Recognition Analyst, press endorsement as market visionary Leader category in Gartner magic quadrant Awards

Business Environment E-mail Retention is Becoming a Primary Concern Compliance: Need a complete, tamper-proof archive e-Discovery: Need to store, find & produce information in a complete & timely manner Security Vulnerabilities Still Exist Spam, viruses and phishing still plague inboxes Closer relationship between viruses and spam Companies ill-equipped to stay ahead of threats Intense Pressure on IT to Improve Productivity Focus on projects that provide competitive advantage Make mission-critical systems more reliable Deploy Secure, Reliable, Manageable, & CostEffective

Meeting Messaging Challenges Manage cost and complexity No HW/SW to install and manage Outsource routine IT management Predictable subscription based service Scalable at no additional cost Secure, protect and comply Inbox value and access Eliminate threats before they reach the network Eliminate spam and viruses from the e-mail stream to boost productivity Policy-compliant infrastructure Service-based email archiving for rapid deployment Reliable e-mail availability and continuity systems Recover from unplanned outages or disasters

FrontBridge Business Focus: Total Message Management Partner & direct sales model 2 to 3 year subscriptions with monthly payment Channel: Direct, white label with Telcos, & resellers Typical customer 1000-2000 seats for Filtering, 400-500 seats for Archive Some customers 100k seats Filtering is largest part of revenue Archiving is fastest growing.

Agenda FrontBridge Overview Customers & Business model Global, Load-Balanced Network FrontBridge Service Offerings Email Security Inbound: Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Content & Policy Filtering Outbound: Anti-Virus & Information Leak Protection Business-to-Customer email encryption Message Archiving Archiving & AMC Demo Active Message Continuity

FrontBridge Global Network 99.999% uptime SLA 100% historical uptime made possible by global, load-balanced network Eight data centers 537 servers Over 200 million message recipients processed/day Over 350 million at peak Store & forward system ensures no legitimate mail is lost Automatic deferral, retry every 20 min for up to 5 days

Agenda FrontBridge Overview Customers & Business model Global, Load-Balanced Network FrontBridge Service Offerings Email Security Inbound: Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Content & Policy Filtering Outbound: Anti-Virus & Information Leak Protection Business-to-Customer email encryption Message Archiving Archiving & AMC Demo Active Message Continuity

Primary FrontBridge Service Offerings E-mail Filtering Layered anti-spam Multi-engine antivirus Corporate Policy Enforcement Real-time attack prevention Message Archive Secure E-mail Interception-based message archiving Customized report generation for demonstrating compliance Fully-indexed, searchable archive Rapid deployment to meet deadlines or immediate needs Full e-mail encryption B-to-C focused No public and private key management Gateway, policybased e-mail encryption Active Message Continuity Uninterrupted email accessibility Rapid recovery from unplanned disasters and network outages 30-day historical email store

Agenda FrontBridge Overview Customers & Business model Global, Load-Balanced Network FrontBridge Service Offerings Email Security Inbound: Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Content & Policy Filtering Outbound: Anti-Virus & Information Leak Protection Business-to-Customer email encryption Message Archiving Archiving & AMC Demo Active Message Continuity

FrontBridge: Email Security Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, & Corporate Policy Enforcement Network TLS Enabled Web-based management & reporting Highly customizable filtering environment Easy customer on-boarding Only requires MX record change No disruption in mail flow One month free trial Four Anti-Virus engines integrated Symantec, Trend Micro, Sophos, & Kaspersky Updates pushed every 10 minutes FrontBridge Anti-Spam Engine Blocks 95% Spam Low false positive rate 1 in 250,000 false positive (bulk email) 1 in 1,000,000 false critical (direct business-to-business messages)

FrontBridge: Filtering Flow Diagram MTA 1 MTA 2 MessageSwitch, DeliverHosts, Quarantine

Spam Filtering: On the Edge SMTP Validation Some easy to detect & common spammer mistakes Sender Policy Framework Points for later spam scoring Optional CSFM (Custom Spam Filter Management) Blacklists / Reputation Services Blacklists internally maintained by spam analysts team Seed pool generated from daily reports of top IPs hitting network IPs are then investigated by SA and added to list Directory Services Administration center upload or automated SFTP dump Updated every 15 minutes

Spam Filtering: Fingerprinting Message Fingerprinting Messages fingerprinted via modified MD5 hash Adapt to avoid most hash breakers Fingerprints are compared with a per-Message Switch cache Cache synchronized with central DB Moving to real time central DB update Gray list: SMTP 450 on significant traffic changes Database tracks all messages moving through system Spam Analyst acts on real-time patterns detected Spam matches signatures in DB Honeypots Accounts set up to gather spam Honeypot messages automatically fingerprinted for blocking

Spam Filtering: Rule Engine FrontBridge Anti-Spam Engine Spam Analyst on duty 16x7 Regular expression-based rules Four new rule pushes each day Spam Analyst input: Honeypots: Known Spam Customer spam submissions Spam Rule Analyzer DB Spam Rule Analyzer Over 61k rules in DB of which 16k are active Each message that triggers a rule also updates usage DB False positives update the DB

Corporate Policy Enforcement Rules used to enforce customer-specific policy Create rules based on multiple message parameters Domain IP or IP Range Sender Recipient Subject Body Character set Filename File Size File Extension Executable content Simple wildcard & pattern matching capabilities /d/d/d-/d/d-/d/d/d/d matches any SSN Per rule customizations (notification, comments) Supported both inbound and outboud (ILP) Actions: reject, allow, deliver w/BCC, quarantine, test, encrypt

Mail Traffic Reports Web based reports in Admin Center Most can span up to 2 months of data at a time Exportable to Microsoft Excel Organization, domain, or domain-group reporting Total messages Inbound messages Outbound messages Policy filtered messages Message Level detail down to sender, recipient and policy rule applied Content filtered messages Message Level detail down to sender, recipient & content rule applied Virus Filtered messages Message Level detail down to sender, recipient and virus name

FrontBridge Secure E-mail User sends an e-mail to FrontBridge E-mail is automatically encrypted at the gateway according to rules created and managed within the Policy Enforcement module The public key is based on the message recipient’s e-mail address to encrypt the E-mail The private key is dynamically generated for the message recipient when they decrypt their message

Agenda FrontBridge Overview Customers & Business model Global, Load-Balanced Network FrontBridge Service Offerings Email Security Inbound: Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Content & Policy Filtering Outbound: Anti-Virus & Information Leak Protection Business-to-Customer email encryption Message Archiving Archiving & AMC Demo Active Message Continuity

Message Archive Overview Hosted service Low cost of storage & administration Captures Email, IM, Bloomberg & archives documents Multiple Business Drivers including Meets regulatory compliance requirements Offers corporate surveillance functionality Provides Knowledge management capabilities Easy on-boarding of service Requires MX record change for external email Envelope Journaling for internal email Web-based supervisory, auditing & reporting tools

FrontBridge Message Archive Inbound E-mail scrubbed for unwanted content Messages captured and copied “in stream” Message store holds e-mail, IM, Bloomberg & uploaded documents End users have full E-mail functionality via web-based OWA clone Supervisors can have access to archive for message monitoring

Compliance Managers & Supervisors SEC 17a-4 – Physical Retention requirements Mail stored for 3 years (1-7 years retention available) Each message assigned a unique contiguous serial number Two online copies of each message stored in 2 discreet locations Messages available online 24 x 7 Can be exported as EML files in ZIP FrontBridge will provide letter of attestation to the SEC Act on customer’s behalf for SEC queries External Auditor role permits outside access for auditors Mail destroyed on expiration date; Destruction report included NASD 3010 – Communications Review requirements Keyword list and message sampling support Whitelist trusted senders from random sample Random sampling support of int/ext mail, int/ext IM Message harvest process built in Review classification categories, with escalation capability included

Corporate HR & Legal Advanced Search Search across message headers, bodies and 200 attachment types Regex, Soundex, Stemming search supported Tag messages for others; add notes to messages Case Management Return search results to custom folders Share folders with others Destruction Hold Stall message destruction by user, by organization Attorney/Client Privilege protection

Message Archive: Reporting Compliance Reports & system Reports 23 predefined reports available Web-based report-generation engine Available 24x7 Data harvested & parsed in real time Reports can be scheduled for regular delivery PDF or XLS format

Archiving Competition More than 50 companies in the space Big divide between service provider & on-premise Major competitors Zantaz Iron Mountain iLumin (Assentor) KVS EMC/Legato/OTG Other notable competitors AdvisorMail

Message Archiving & AMC Demo Kevin Merritt, Architect

Agenda FrontBridge Overview Customers & Business model Global, Load-Balanced Network FrontBridge Service Offerings Email Security Inbound: Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Content & Policy Filtering Outbound: Anti-Virus & Information Leak Protection Business-to-Customer email encryption Message Archiving Archiving & AMC Demo Active Message Continuity

FrontBridge Active Message Continuity Fully functioning supplementary email system – can send new messages and reply to and forward previously received messages Easy point in time as well as ad hoc restoration of messages 100% shared code base with Message Archive (including the OWA clone web-based front end) with some minor tweaks: 30-day perpetually rolling archive Compliance features and reports concealed

Active Message Continuity Shared code base & infrastructure with Message Archiving Targeted as a continuity solution, not retention Only differences between AMC and MA are: 30 day rolling archive instead of 3, 5 or 7 years Attachments and bodies not searchable Compliance workflow tools removed Fewer reports Easier to use Less expensive MRR Limited Competition – MessageOne

Summary E-mail is a mission critical application Customer benefits from software as a service model: Enable companies to tackle complex e-mail tasks with minimal IT staff No upfront capital investment Predictable recurring costs Allow IT staff to focus on more strategic projects offering real competitive advantage FrontBridge, a Microsoft subsidiary, is the leading services provider for e-mail security, protection, and compliance We’re hiring Developers, Testers, Program Managers, System Administrators, DBAs, and Client Support Help drive Microsoft success in non-consumer hosted services

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