Adaptive Defense 360 scans for viruses, hacking tools and suspicious/potentially unwanted programs sent to the Exchange Server mailboxes.
Eliminating junk mail (spam) is a time-consuming task. And not only that, spam is also a frequent source of scams.
To tackle this, Adaptive Defense 360 provides anti-spam protection for Exchange Server.
This feature helps companies improve user productivity and increase the security of network computers.
Adaptive Defense 360 protects Exchange email servers by using two different technologies:
This protection is used on Exchange servers with the Mailbox role, and scans folders/mailboxes in the background or when messages are received and stored in users' folders.
The mailbox protection allows manipulation of the items contained in the body of scanned messages. Thus, the protection can replace any dangerous items found with clean ones, move only dangerous items to quarantine, etc.
Additionally, the mailbox protection allows administrators to scan Exchange server user folders in the background, making the most of server idle times. This protection uses smart scans which do not re-scan already scanned items, as opposed to the typical scenario where both the mailboxes and the quarantine folder are scanned every time a new signature file is published.
This protection is used on Exchange servers with the Client Access, Edge Transport and Mailbox roles, and scans the traffic that goes through the Exchange server.
This protection does not allow manipulation of the items contained in the body of scanned messages. That is, the body of dangerous messages is treated as a single component, and every action taken by Adaptive Defense 360 affects the entire message: delete the message, quarantine it, let it through without taking any action, etc.
Related topics
Configuring the protection for Exchange Server
Content Filtering for Exchange Server