Inline StreamingA strong email defense is essential for every organization - and it's equally important that the service you choose filters your valuable email without the risks of delay and loss. MX Logic's in-line message filtering process leverages a proxy-based technology that is more secure and risk-free than services that employ the store-and-forward method of email filtering.
The flow of email makes the difference
While both the proxy-based and store-and-forward methods utilize the domain's mail exchange (MX) record for filtering, they differ in how email flows through the filtering layers.
Using a patent-pending, multi-layer filtering process and redundant processing centers, email messages travel through the MX Logic filters where spam, viruses and worms and unwanted content are stripped and email attacks are blocked - allowing only legitimate messages to be delivered.
Leveraging proxy-based filtering technology, MX Logic's entire filtering process takes less than a second, is invisible to your organization and is extremely accurate. Conversely, store-and-forward filtering writes and stores all email messages to disk outside the corporate firewall, filters them in succession, and then forwards them onto their intended recipients.
Reduced latency
MX Logic acts as a conduit between the email sender and recipient - filtering the message in-stream, real-time as it passes from the sender to the recipient. Because messages are never stored during the in-line filtering process, emails filtered by MX Logic experience sub-second delivery - avoiding the latency issues from high-traffic and overburdened queues commonly experienced with the pure store-and-forward method employed by other providers.
Email vulnerability risks are virtually eliminated
Using Intelligent Message Processing technology, MX Logic's proxy-based filtering virtually eliminates message delivery risks. With the store-and-forward method, email messages are subject to loss through systems outages, message interception, or corruption from an infected email base.
Secure Message Delivery
The MX Logic® Email Defense Service supports SMTP over TLS, providing email delivery encryption which allows customers to easily send and receive email over a secure, end-to-end encrypted tunnel. MX Logic accepts and filters encrypted inbound and outbound messages and delivers them across a secure tunnel when recipients are TLS enabled. If a recipient is unable to receive a TLS encrypted tunnel, MX Logic will deliver the message via standard SMTP. Messages sent and received via an encrypted tunnel and are still automatically processed by the MX Logic® Threat Center, where they are scanned to block spam, viruses, worms, phishing attacks, unwanted content and attachments and other email threats.
Removing the risk of delivery failure
MX Logic's proxy-based filtering approach also removes the risk of delivery failure that results from 'network islanding,' which occurs when the destination server identifies a message as undeliverable and the message becomes stranded between the originating server and its destination. Our proxy-based filtering removes this risk by never accepting responsibility for the delivery of legitimate message traffic. If disaster strikes at the destination message server, the email will bounce back to the sender normally as mandated by the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP).
For more information on MX Logic email and Web security solutions, contact us at 1.877.MXLOGIC (1.877.695.6442), via email at info@mxlogic.com, or submit an online inquiry.
