Hosted email security and continuity for partners

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Hosted email security and continuityfor partners
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GFI MAX MailProtection overview

• GFI MAX MailProtection is a cloud-based email
  security solution
• Inbound email filtering
• Outbound email filtering
• Email continuity
• Edge-based network defense
• The service is designed to be highly accurate,
  cost-effective, and easy
  to use

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About the service

• Primary component of service is spam and virus
  protection
• Industry-leading technology detects a high
  percentage of junk mail
• Inbound filtering activated by a simple DNS
  change
• Within minutes an organization can be protected
  from spam, virusesand other incoming email
  threats
• Individual users can easily review detected spam
  messages
• Hosted web-based quarantine
• Daily spam/virus digest reports by email
• Outbound filtering is similarly easy to implement
• Notification to administrators of any spammers or
  virus-infected workstations on their network
  attempting to send outbound junk mail

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Email continuity

• Integrated message queuing
• All inbound messages are automatically queued if
  the customers mail server is unreachable
• Typical scenarios include problems with mail
  server, network issues, planned server upgrades,
  and other outages
• No bounce messages are generated when an outage
  occurs
• On-demand mail service
• Users have access to all queued messages, and can
  respond to those messages, via a fully functional
  webmail in the control panel during any outage

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GFI MAX MailProtection technology

• Advanced Software Architecture
• Third-generation software designed for high
  capacity to managerapidly growing message volume
• Modular scanning techniques for maximum
  flexibility
• High accuracy through multi-layered analysis
• Multi-language and language-neutral tests
• Customizable web-based control panel, designed
  for partners
• On-demand mail service
• Six datacenters in North America Europe
• Addition of datacenters in Germany (May), UK, and
  Australia in 2010

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Benefits for customers

• Key features of GFI MAX MailProtection
• Highly accurate, adaptive system blocks emerging
  junk mail
• (historical examples include image spam and PDF
  spam)
• Zero-hour virus protection
• Email continuity
• Outbound filtering
• Message logging and search
• Configurable user preferences and individual
  quarantines allow users the ability to manage
  their spam without administrator assistance

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More benefits for customers

• Other advantages of service
• No software or hardware to download, install,
  configure, or maintain
• Better reliability and scalability than a
  hardware or software solution
• Eliminates single point of failure with
  on-premise solution
• Multiple systems in multiple datacenters provide
  for much greatercapacity to handle large spam
  runs and increasing message traffic
• Threats are blocked before they reach the
  customers network
• Rapid implementation in a matter of minutes
• Service is compatible with any operating
  system(s) or mail infrastructure, and continues
  working even when there are changes to that
  infrastructure
• Inexpensive and predictable pricing, with no
  capital investment

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Benefits to partners

• GFI commitment to channel
• GFI sells primarily through its partner channel
• Substantial sales and marketing support to
  partners
• Competent, responsive support by email and phone
• Service management designed for partners
• Partners can easily provision new customers
  without intervention
• Hierarchical management for configuration,
  permissions, and reporting (Distributors gt
  Account managers gt Organizations gt Domains gt
  Users)

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Branding for partners

• GFI commitment to channel
• Service is fully brandable at every customer
  touch point
• Control panel can reflect URL, logo, and color
  scheme of partner
• Neutral MX records are provided for end customers
• Customizable message digests and other email
  notifications to customers

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Economics for partners

• Market opportunity
• Need for email security is strong, with a long
  future
• Managed service model is growing
• Spam and virus filtering is a good entry point to
  provide customers with other email-related
  services as well as other managed service
  offerings
• Financial advantages of GFI MAX MailProtection
  for partners
• Recurring revenue model
• Billing based on number of mailboxes using the
  service
• High margins with tiered pricing
• No minimum commitments, quotas, or purchase
  requirements (subject to a minimum monthly
  billing of 10 per reseller)
• 30-day free trial can be extended to all new
  customers

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Roadmap

• Additional integrated service offerings for GFI
  MAX MailProtection
• Delivery Verification Service
• Hosted Email Archive Service
• Email Encryption
• Integrated Email Hosting
• Integration of GFI MAX MailProtection with other
  GFI solutions
• GFI MailEssentials and GFI MailSecurity
  integration in progress
• Integration with GFI MAX RemoteManagement
• GFIs vision is to provide software and
  cloud-based services
• so partners and customers have a choice of
  hosted, on-premise,
• or hybrid solutions

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Selling against hardware or software solutions

• Examples include Barracuda, Ironport, and other
  appliances
• Symantec, McAfee, and other software solutions
• Advantages of service
• Reliability
• Scalability
• Simple, rapid, remote deployment and reduced
  management
• Business continuity
• No capital investment
• Full branding capabilities of GFI MAX
  MailProtection
• Add-on/complementary sale with premium hybrid

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Selling against other services

• Examples include Postini, MessageLabs, MX Logic,
  and others
• Feature Advantages of GFI MAX MailProtection
• Ease-of-use
• Full branding capabilities
• Superior queuing (particularly versus Postini)
• Integrated continuity
• Structural Advantages of GFI
• Tiered pricing model
• No quotas or minimum commitments for partners
• Quality of support
• Partner focus and commitment

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Starting out

• To enroll as a GFI MAX Mail Services Partner
• http//maxmail-signup.gfi.com/en/mp/
• Free trial
• 30 day free trial offered for all domains
• Includes partners own domain and customer
  domains

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More info and downloads
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• Click here to learn more about the product
• Check out our competitive pricing
• Download your FREE trial of GFI MAX
  MailProtection
• Email sales_at_gfi.com
• Visit www.gfi.com/max-family