Webroot offers a REAL real-time SaaS (Software as a Service) experience. The technology reacts as quickly as software and offers all of the features and functions normally associated with "on-premise" network security solutions, while also offering guarantees in relation to spam and virus capture rates, that cannot be matched by software or appliance solutions.
The technology goes beyond simple Spam and AV protection. Webroot also provide detailed content control, image scanning, encryption, e-mail archiving (including internal) & e-mail business continuity. Reporting is detailed and can be scheduled to send via e-mail on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
The service can be sold as a point enterprise solution or as a managed service to small business customers, easily managed through a single web-based management portal.
Webroot E-Mail Security SaaS
Features available through Webroot E-Mail Security SaaS include:
Anti Spam - consistently stopping 99.5% spam with less than 1 false positive in 300,000 e-mails
Anti Virus - we guarantee 100% known viruses will be stopped, we also offer ZERO Hour threat protection
Anti Porn - filtering of pornographic images in e-mail
Content Control - filtering based on words, phrases, attachment types/size etc.
E-mail Archiving - up to 25 years, can also archive internal mail - all mail is indexed and can be searched for based on headers, content & attachments
Encryption
Disaster Recovery
Business E-mail Continuity
Full LDAP Integration - making fine-grained policy control based on groups of individuals quick and easy
Reporting - detailed reports including ability to schedule
Business Continuity and E-mail Archiving
In addition to the core offerings of e-mail and web filtering, Webroot also offers optional services including offsite e-mail archiving with no hardware or software to install on the customer network. The service archives both internal and external e-mail traffic in multiple, secure, offsite and carbon minimised data centres and provides secure, web-based audited search and retrieval functionality.
The optional business continuity e-mail service provides the ability to continue receiving and sending e-mail in the event of an outage of the local mail server or of the user's PC. The user simply switches to a secure web portal on the Webroot service where their current and prior 28 days of e-mail is held.