Symantec.cloud uses multiple proprietary and third-party technologies to provide in-depth defences and protection. Symantec Safeguard.Cloud contains both antivirus and antispam and content and image control, the benefits of which are as follows:
- SMTP traffic heuristics and shaping
- Symantec Intelligence supporting malware, URL, spam, phishing, and targeted attack protection
- Multilayer malware analysis
- Skeptic heuristics
- Sandbox analysis
- URL link following
- Bulk mail control for solicited messages (for example newsletters)
- 99 percent antispam effectiveness, 0.0003 percent accuracy target supported by SLA
- End-user email notifications for quarantine management
- Enforce acceptable use policies
- Granular control by user, group, and domain
- Identify and control confidential or inappropriate content
- Scanning within email header subject, body, and attachment
- File format aware content scanning for attachment such as Office, PDF, and compressed file types
- Restrict by time, size, and number of attachments
- Keywords, dictionaries, and thresholds
- Administrator, sender, and recipient notification options
- Image composition analysis
- Image signatures
- Facial recognition
- Body positioning analysis
- Texture analysis
- Flesh tone detection