Features

Multiple Domains and Servers Support
ShareTech MA Series supports multiple domains and mail servers. For example, sharetech.com.tw and tpsharetech.com.tw. Email with its attachments will be transferred and archived based on administrator defined policies. 

IPv4/v6 Dual Stack
The MA Series appliances have access to IPv4-only, IPv6-only, or both IPv4 and IPv6 technology available and connects to remote servers and destinations in parallel.

Mail Gateway
To couple with industry leading real-time antivirus, antispam scanning, ShareTech MA Series provides fast and accurate email security that does not affect end users or delay their communications. Appliances can be deployed on premises and gateway to defend your mission-critical email systems.

Dual Anti-Virus Engines
MA-600 offers built-in ClamAV and 1-year Kaspersky for virus scanning. ClamAV, having automatic signature updates can detect over millions of Trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats, and reduce IT cost for cost-conscious companies. Moreover, clients for more demanding security needs can purchase Kaspersky module which ensures a rapid response to new attacks. Legitimate emails will be quarantined as virus-infected email, and the system can keep logs, create reports, or issue an alert notification.  

Multi-Layered Spam Filtering
ShareTech MA Series employs multi-layered spam filtering including keyword/hyperlink filtering, multi-RBL lookup, auto-learning, ST-IP network rating, Greylist, Bayesian Filtering, Fingerprinting, and spam characteristics to filter out unwanted bulk email message before network being clogged. Personal Black/White listing can be defined and enforced in flexible policies for high accuracy spam filtering. Moreover, the system provides links filtering with a database to avoid receiving emails with malicious links.

Event Logs Analyzer
Event logs record all the happenings on the device and bear clues to several security hacks and application performance issues. It is a tedious task for an administrator to manually check and track issues on each and every device. MA Series provides a solution to handle complete network fault management from one window. Administrators are capable of searching through events logs efficiently for evidence of a particular event.

Email and Personal Data Auditing
MA Series provides policy-based auditing controls. Security policies can be created and prioritized by the system administrator in the user interface based on governmental regulations or internal business processes. Both incoming and outgoing mails are handled according to recipients, senders, subjects, size, attachments, etc. Moreover, MA Series provides protection for personally identifiable information such as ID number, credit card number, phone number, mobile number, and date of birth. Actions such as forward to administrators, delete, send carbon copies, or send notifications can be performed to certain email that triggered the filtering rules.

Mail Archive Retrieval and Inspection

In addition to simply archiving all inbound, outbound or internal email, MA Series protects organizations’ email from accidental deletion, provides email resume, and allows for quick searching and data retrieval in the email archive. This system allows users to enter a keyword or conceptual search query on web-based interfaces to search through all fields, including domain, subject, content, attachment, sender, recipient, date, attachment, and more. Users can either read or retrieve crucial documents for investigations.

Email Record, Archive and Backup
Storage can be divided into two main types: Localhost and remote.

   Localhost Storage

24TB bundle of 4 x 6TB HDD built for use in ShareTech MA-600. By default, archiving policies can be applied to move email messages automatically to archive database.

   Remote Storage

USB flash drive, FTP, SAMBA are supported for users to retrieve individual messages through Network Neighborhood in a failover. MA-600 can connect to multiple storage servers at a time so that administrators can search for archived messages, inspect its contents and retrieve them easily from within their archive database.

Securely Backup Office 365 and Gmail
MA Series backup solution supports cloud-based storage platform by creating hybrids clouds which gives businesses greater flexibility. MA Series can integrate with two generally available cloud-based solutions among businesses: Google and Microsoft Office 365. In addition to applying in-place archiving, auditing policies to business email messages, data can be securely stored in different geographically locations as off-site backup.

Individual Mailbox Backup & Restore
ShareTech MA Series provides an easier way to perform individual mailbox backup and restore. When hard drive failure or unforeseen circumstances occurs, the system allows users to directly resend email stored on the MA appliances to designated accounts.

Multiple Server-Based Password Authentications
Using multiple user authorization methods is desirable for SMBs and ShareTech MA Series supports the use of RADIUS, AD, POP3, IMAP, LDAP servers and Google oAuth for authentication. A valid user name, password and full email address are required to connect to these auth servers.

Email Resume
ShareTech specially designs email resume for encouraging creativity in the use of email archiving. It is timeline-based association graph with in-depth email tracking and generally consists of time stamps, back-and-forth email delivery, recipients/senders, and email contents. Users can visualize their email communication relation with ease.

System Status Management
The system provides event logs and syslogs that aggregate your logs in a central location and perform security checks. They make it easy for even a single administrator to manage the logs across all the servers and applications in the environment. As an administrator, you can receive email alerts when something important happens in your organization. The system downloads firmware automatically when available and upgrades via web browser.

Role-based System Administration
Role-based system administration provides distributed management and distinguishes between administrators and ordinary users. After securely assigning different levels of initial accesses, users have fully integrated functionality to grant, manage, and revoke items such as system management, SMTP server, bridge mode, domain management, and authentication across internal and external organizations.

Friendly Web UI and Custom System Configuration
With web-based configuration utility and firmware upgrade, MA Series provides an interface that allows users to change their language preferences (Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and English) and enable/disable https remote control services. Additionally, administrators can custom name appears on browser tabs, login pages, and servers.

Personal Dashboard
Unlike traditional reporting, MA series provides personal dynamic dashboard in the web user interface (web UI) presenting a graphic view of personal email statistics. Users can specify a date range to analyze their ordinary email, spam email, and virus-infected email activities. A pie chart and a line graph are used to display query results. In this way, users are given more visibility into their email flow statistics.

USB Drive for System Backup
Scheduled backup can be taken automatically at the scheduled time. Moreover, administrators can easily insert a USB drive into the available USB port on the MA Series appliances for system backup. When a system is corrupted and unable to boot, users can start the appliance in recovery mode and then restore most recently backed up data from USB hard drive.

Unrestricted User Accounts
MA Series has no restriction on maximum licensed users. Performance varies considerably depending on hardware and email traffics. The system provides auto firmware upgrade regularly and predefined attack-signature database (spam filtering and ClamAV) update every period of time without additional charge. Moreover, cloud-based integration can be led to ShareTech Eye Cloud service system which reduces the cost of on-going support and maintenance in these budget-conscious times.

 

Diagram

     ShareTech Mail Archive (MA) supports 3 Architectures: Bridge, Gateway and POP3 Proxy

  Bridge Mode

MA-600 supports 2-pair LAN bypass for Ethernet connection. The MA appliance can be deployed in front of a major mail server. When configured in Bridge Mode, it can record email messages and provide security services. Due to other email clients like Outlook and Thunderbird are widely used in the business world, the MA Series appliances can filter SMTP protocols while capturing, store and archive all inbound and outbound email messages.

 

   Gateway Mode

MA Series can be an email gateway that filters your organization's inbound and outbound email to protect users from virus and spam. To protect internal mail servers from outside attacks, gateway mode usually demands more computational resources. Outlook users can point SMTP service at MA Series to apply email auditing. Moreover, gateway mode is also suggested to companies that build mail server on virtual machine and are not able to receive traffics running in bridge mode.

 

  POP3 Proxy

ShareTech MA Series can operate in POP3 proxy mode and automatically archive all inbound and outbound email messages as they pass through, using a process called Journaling. Email systems such as cloud-based exchanges (Gmail, 163, and Microsoft Office 365) and internal servers (Microsoft Exchange Server or IBM Lotus) are supported. In this way, email communication can all be archived to the organization’s mail archive appliances. By choosing POP, users can continue to use their preferred email services and search through all their emails in a single archive view.

Specification

Features	Description
Architectures	1.       In Bridge Mode, MA Series can archive all inbound/outbound email messages, filter mailboxes and quarantine spam and virus infected messages. 2.       In POP3 proxy mode using Journaling, email systems such as Gmail and Office 365 are supported and email communication can all be archived.
Mail Gateway	The MA appliances can be deployed on premises and gateway to defend your email systems and filter out unsolicited bulk email, virus, malicious email, relay, phishing, spyware and more.
Anti-Virus	1.       ClamAV anti-virus engine and 1-year Kaspersky module for advanced security 2.       Scans email messages using SMTP or POP3 protocol 3.       Configures scan exclusions list (file extensions) including jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp, avi, dat, mpeg, mpg, mp3, mid, wav, and rm. 4.       Scans unencrypted email messages and their attachments 5.       Actions taken to virus-infected email are quarantine, change email subject lines, unarchive, and notify. 6.       Provides administrators and users virus-quarantined lists
Spam Filtering	1.       Multi-layered spam filtering includes ST-IP networking rating, Bayesian Filtering, Bayesian auto-learning, Fingerprinting, and spam characteristics, etc. 2.       Analyzes email header fields and message content to identify spam emails 3.       The system can designate spam and non-spam with higher accuracy via auto-learning. 4.       Built-in URL database classified webpages into categories such as Warez, violence, suspect, spyware, redirector, proxy, porn, hacking, gambling, drugs, audio-video, and aggressive. Thus, suspicious hyperlinks can be detected based on the content of the email. 5.       System Black/White Listing 6.       Personal Black/White Listing 7.       Recipients will be notified of newly-quarantined mail and there are a number of actions users can take on quarantined emails.
Audit Filtering	1.       Filtering conditions can be based on sender, recipient, subject, email size, attachment type, words in emails, header, etc. Policies can be set up to specify which mail to allow, block, quarantine, delete, block sender’s IP, send notification, or send carbon copies. 2.       Administrators can authorize email administrators to process important email according to organization's policies. Further actions such as quarantine, delete, block sender’s IP, send notification, or send carbon copies can be applied to archived email. 3.       Personally identifiable information includes ID number, credit card number, phone number, mobile number, date of birth and email address. 4.       Emails that triggered auditing policies are placed in the quarantine area. Administrators can create a search query with keywords to view a list of quarantined emails easily.
Mail Record	1.        Records both inbound and outbound email activities. Moreover, a user-friendly GUI interface is provided for fast queries. 2.        Users can search email messages in mail logs using date, sender, recipient, subject, size, or process as search criteria.
Account Management	1.       Data backup via Samba, FTP, or USB flash drives 2.       Connects to multiple storage servers at a time that administrators can search, inspect, retrieve backup easily. 3.       Restricts IP addresses allowed to authenticate/access to the MA appliances 4.       3 user-defined roles and level permissions can be created and altered: administrator, inquirer, and user.
System Backup	1.       Data backup via Samba, FTP, or USB flash drives 2.       Connects to multiple storage servers at a time that administrators can search, inspect, retrieve backup easily.
System Management	1.       Supports sending outbound email via proxies 2.       Supports TLS encryption which adds security to SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols 3.       To avoid emails sent outside or inside an organization in rich-text format (RTF), the system can automatically format normally and convert it to an HTML format as well. 4.       IPv4 / v6 Dual Stack 5.       Displays historical resources of CPU/RAM usages, HD read/write speed, network traffic, and system loading 6.       Role-based system administration provides distributed management and distinguishes between administrators and ordinary users. 7.       Language preferences supported are Traditional Chinese, Simplifies Chinese, and English in both user and admin interfaces. 8.       Automatically checks for the newest firmware and download it on the server. Administrators can deploy an update by simply clicking on a button or schedule it by time.  9.       High Availability (HA)
Big Data Analytics (Optional)	1.       Association graph assists users to visualize their email communication relation with ease 2.       Total mailing can be one of the best protection tactics for pre-delivery inspection. Potential data leakage activities can be identified through statistical analysis. 3.       Business can refer email-based working hour’s statistics to divide up and transfer employee’s work.
Personal Archive	1.       Records personal email communication and archiving 2.       Email Resume  3.       Personal Dashboard 4.       Personal email retrieval and forwarding 5.       History statistics allow users to view incoming/outgoing email, spam, virus-infected email, and email-related information. 6.       Personal lists of quarantined and deleted emails 7.       Custom Dashboard configuration