Awarded the VBSpam+ Certification with a 99.99% spam catch rate and zero false positives earning top marks in independent comparison of anti-spam solutions
Fortinet has announced another VBSpam+ certification in Virus Bulletin’s latest VBSpam comparative review. This marks FortiMail’s fifth consecutive 99.9+ final score with a 99.99% spam catch rate and no false positives.
Fortinet’s Secure Email Gateway, FortiMail, is integrated within Fortinet’s Security Fabric which enables the sharing of both global and local threat intelligence between FortiMail and other advanced security devices including FortiSandbox. This unique approach can stop both existing and previously unseen threats the very first time they reach an organization or employee, preventing the loss of sensitive and confidential information.
According to the release, the VBSpam test consisted of 187,720 emails. Of these, 94.5% were spam, with the rest comprised of legitimate emails and newsletters. Fortinet’s FortiMail Secure Email Gateway solution received a top score of 99.5%, blocking 99.99% of spam and a false positive rate of 0.0%. This was the 41st time in a row that Fortinet has participated in the VBSpam test, with the FortiMail Secure Email Gateway appliance being awarded VBSpam Verified or VBSpam+ certification each time.
Fortinet is committed to third-party validation and testing to assure customers of the efficacy and innovation of their security offerings. Fortinet’s FortiMail solution has been part of every VBSpam validation since its inception by Virus Bulletin. Details of the testing reveal that Fortinet’s secure email gateway technology has consistently been certified and validated for providing the highest levels of spam detection and filtering with zero false positives.
Fortinet’s FortiMail email security solution is just the latest component to receive Virus Bulletin certification for security effectiveness. It has a perfect record of certification in every Virus Bulletin VBSpam test since its inception, earning a total of 41 SPAM or SPAM+ certifications between 2009 and today. FortiGuard Web Filtering service, received VBWeb’s very first web filtering certification. And Fortinet’s FortiClient endpoint protection has also consistently received dozens of VB100 antivirus certifications dating back to 2005, posting strong scores in proactive zero-day detection tests, and earning certification in all four VB100 tests in 2015, the release said.
Michael Xie, Founder, President and CTO, Fortinet said, “Email continues to be a primary source for malware, data loss, and other enterprise attacks. As this latest round of testing continues to show, Fortinet’s FortiMail secure email gateway solution delivers world-class enterprise email protection. But beyond that, it is also designed to operate as a critical part of our tightly integrated Fortinet Security Fabric that shares threat intelligence to deliver coordinated responses to attacks anywhere across the distributed enterprise network.”
