Messaging Reporter

The Mirapoint Messaging Reporter™ is a valuable reporting tool that delivers a holistic view of spam, virus, and email trends across the messaging network. The Messaging Reporter simplifies the manual process of aggregating and analyzing security and traffic data contained in log files from two or more devices – including edge firewall, and email security devices as well as mail servers – allowing administrators to mine data from any given period of time for up to ten years. The Messaging Reporter provides automated, centralized reporting of current and long-term historical activity, enabling true visibility into email traffic and security trends, and allowing administrators to more effectively plan and allocate resources.

The Mirapoint Messaging Reporter features include:

Improved insight into entire system for more effective network security management
Forensic capabilities for tracing messages quickly and cost effectively
Greater visibility into email volume and security trends for more efficient capacity planning
Enhanced user demographics for better management and cost-effective operation
Automated delivery of report data in seconds for improved efficiency

Features and Benefits

Security Effectiveness
The Messaging Reporter provides quantitative information about the effectiveness of the security infrastructure in managing viruses, spam, and other types of malicious activities. This near real-time view into the email network means administrators never have to wonder whether their email security system is performing adequately.

Forensics
The Messaging Reporter can identify, search for, and gather messages based on their characteristics, such as date, sender, recipient, or subject, in response to audit or discovery requests. Messaging Reporter can also trace the path and disposition of any message. These forensic capabilities eliminate the costly, time-consuming efforts required in the past to retrieve messages.

Capacity Planning
The Messaging Reporter’s actionable reports can detect email traffic trends to ensure organizations are prepared for an upswing in email activity. By monitoring traffic volume over time, IT departments can not only better manage budget and equipment expenditures, but also track the return on investment in tools they have purchased and intelligently plan for future growth.

User Demographics
The Messaging Reporter can offer enhanced insight into how users use the email system, allowing administrators to secure and manage the email system more cost effectively, through actions like removing inactive accounts to prevent their use by spammers. Understanding the behavior of users and which users are using which services can also drive more effective investment in the platform.

Consolidated Reports
The Messaging Reporter performs the previously labor-intensive task of combining reports from multiple edge devices, making reports more accurate and available in seconds rather than hours, and freeing up valuable technician time for other tasks. Consolidating data between two or more devices can help localize and understand root causes to problems and allow administrators to more easily identify and mitigate
inbound and outbound spam activity.