Email Security Services Overview

IMPORTANT: ESS and ShadowProtect have officially been retired. If you have not yet moved away from these services, please do so immediately to avoid encountering any disruption once they are completely turned off. For more information on CloudCare services discontinuation, see CloudCare Services EoL.

 

Avast Business CloudCare Email Security Services (ESS) is a cloud-based system available only to CloudCare Partners. It is a hosted solution which requires the customer to have control of their DNS records, so mail is sent directly to us, and then passed along to the customer's mail server/cloud service. ESS checks email for spam, viruses, and unwanted mail using a variety of custom filters, so that mail is clean before it arrives on the customer's email server, and also offers email archives and encryption.

Email Security Services Components

AntiSpam

• Blocks unwanted email in the cloud before it hits the customer's network
• Also blocks outbound email that contains spam or viruses, keeping your customers from inadvertently spanning their contacts
• Provides ten levels of protection and stays up-to-date automatically
• Spools inbound emails for ten days, which means that a customer's local server outage doesn't have to mean a major disruption

Email Archive

• Provides email continuity to your customers by giving them on-demand access to email from any location, even if their internal server is down
• Offers protected and encrypted long-term storage while filtering for spam and viruses in the process
• Gives your customers the tools to search any email or attachment within the archive on multiple levels

Email Archive Lite

• Provides customers with convenient, short-term storage
• Users can access, search, and recover without the need to contact you
• Improves network performance with secure archiving a rolling, 60-day basis
• After 60 days, emails and information are automatically deleted

Encrypted Email

• Encrypted email is maintained in SysTrust-certified and SAS-70 type II Data Centers
• Deploys easily without additional hardware, software, or training-and saves time with automatic updates
• Encrypt based on policy and regulatory compliance, along encryption based on subject line keywords, recipients, domains, and more
• Covers PC-to-PC encryption and mobile devices as well
• Emails that are sent unencrypted can be automatically encrypted, rerouted, or blocked if they do not comply with policy

Testing ESS

You can use the following Test SMTP addresses to test Email Security Services (ESS).

• 54.210.163.87
• 52.4.53.158