Mirapoint automates email security reporting

Mirapoint Messaging Reporter analyses and aggregates security data

Messaging security specialist Mirapoint has launched a new centralised reporting tool to give IT administrators a clearer view of their email security data to make better-informed decisions.

Mirapoint Messaging Reporter (MMR) automates the process of analysing and aggregating the security data in multiple logs throughout the enterprise, thus freeing IT staff to concentrate on more valuable tasks, according to the firm's European marketing manager, Steve Gerrard.

"Understanding email patterns means looking through massive amounts of data, which takes massive amounts of time," said Gerrard. "MMR gives the same results quickly and apart from making like simpler [for the IT department] it removes errors."

MMR can provide information such as the identities of the top spamming or virus-sending domains to help IT managers spot security trends and ensure their systems are not overwhelmed, Gerrard added.

The new product can also help with governance, thanks to a message identification capability that lets IT administrators click on a message and view its audit trail, said Gerrard.

With the data generated from the MMR, IT managers can identify email trends and so ensure they are prepared for surges of activity; and monitoring traffic volumes over longer periods can enable IT to manage budget and plan equipment expenditure, the firm said.