RE: email gateway appliance for antivirus and antispam for 3-5k?

["Serge Jorgensen" <sjorgensen () usinfosec com>]

I know you said hardware - but have you looked at 3rd party hosting. We
went through a similar eval, and decided to outsource. mxInspect has
been great for us; they screen AV and spam, keep stats, and provide a
failover. Have your box only talk to their IP and you're pretty tight.
TCO is ~$2/u/yr. Worth a glance. They have web-traffic filtering as well
(though you didn't mention it, I think the C100 offers it).

R/
 Serge



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Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 2:40 PM
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Subject: email gateway appliance for antivirus and antispam for 3-5k?

I know this has been covered several ways over the years, but searching
my
archives isn't bringing up what I need. Maybe some of you can help. I
want
to purchase a hardware appliance to take the "Edge Transport" role for
my
soon-to-be-installed E2K7 server. I want to know all the options and
narrow
it down to three or four. So please share opinions and experince on
devices
that meet the following requirements:
 
- Hardware only. I don't care if I have to install management software,
just
don't want it on the server. I'm a big fan of decomposed architecture.
- Anti-Spam AND Anti-Virus solution (excludes companies like Barracuda).

- Less than $5k for 3 years TCO. I don't care if the box is $3k or $5k
as
long as maintenance and subscriptions keep the total under $5k.
- Anywhere from 25 to 100 user device is fine.
 
Possibilities so far (feel free to comment):
IronPort C100
Sophos ES1000
Fortinet Fortimail
 
Thanks in advance.
 
 
 -J