ModusGate Email Filtering: Keep Everything Dangerous Out of Your Inboxes
When it comes to email, just blocking spam isn't enough to protect your safety. modusGate helps prevent against phishing and DoS attacks as well.
Phishing has been plastered all over the news, and for good reason. Phishing attacks are emails that look like they were sent from a reputable company – PayPal, Amazon, eBay, even nationwide banks. But they’re actually clever forgeries, designed to steal valuable information (like your credit card number).
Denial of Service Attacks (DoS) are intended to overwhelm a server or network device (i.e., a router) so it can't function properly. Often these attacks come in the form of flooding the targeted system with thousands of service requests, over and over. The server or network device tries to respond to these, but there are too many, coming too fast. So it slows down, still trying to respond … and then crashes.
In the past DoS attacks have brought down major websites, banking servers, even the DNS servers that help to run the entire Internet! They are initiated for many reasons: simple mischief, data theft, even the worst reason of all—none.
What's the best way to handle these? Well, the best way to avoid a problem is to avoid its cause. This is where modusGate Email Filtering can (and will) save you.
modusGate Email Gateways operate on the principle of prevention.
- If a phishing request never reaches your inbox, you can’t be tricked.
- If all those DoS service requests can’t get past the gateway, the attack can't succeed.
modusGate is configured by default to reject such requests. It scans every message as it comes in, and attempts to validate it against strict criteria. If an email cannot be validated, it's rejected. You don't even see it. It can't get to you to harm you or your server.
All clients who host email through PlanetMagpie use this product on our modusMail server. In addition, many of our customers who run their own Exchange servers and Small Business servers can take advantage of the same protection by adding modusGate email filtering protection in front of their mail servers. Our modusGate email gateway runs alongside our hosting servers in the server room.
Call us at 408-341-8770 for a quote on modusGate or modusMail service. Keep the very real threats of phishing and DoS attacks at bay, along with all that spam.
