SMTP IPS/FW
- Click the 'Modules' tab > 'SMTP IPS/FW'.
- Secure Email Gateway's SMTP Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and Firewall (FW) module provide protection against Denial of Service (DoS) and SYN attacks.
- SYN attacks are dealt with using SYN Cookies and SYN Cache features.
- DoS attacks are blocked by deploying various usage limitations.
- For example, Secure Email Gateway can limit the number of connections it accepts in a certain time-period. The IPS/FW module will block IPs that want make more connections more than the limit. You can specify the limit in a security profile.
- The module also lets you create whitelist and block rules to better control spam. The rate control feature, a subset of the DoS protection system, allows you to control how many connections are allowed within the specified time from the same IP address.
See the following sections for more details.