Technical Guides
13 July 2009
Clearswift Web Appliance HTTPS FAQs
This Technical FAQ explains the functionality of the optional HTTPS/SSL scanning and inspection module available for the Clearswift Web Appliance and how it is deployed.
22 June 2009
Clearswift Web Appliance Product Information Bulletin
This document provides an introduction to the release of Clearswift Web Appliance 1.4.
22 June 2009
Clearswift Email Appliance Product Information Bulletin
Clearswift Email Appliance 2.8 (also includes Edge Server 2.8) Product Information Bulletin.
27 February 2009
Installing the Clearswift Web Appliance on VMware
This guide describes the process of installing the MIMEsweeper Web Appliance onto VMware or onto a customer sourced server.
27 February 2009
Installing the Clearswift Email Appliance on VMware
This guide describes the process of installing the MIMEsweeper Email Appliance onto VMware or onto a customer sourced server.
27 February 2009
Clearswift Email Appliance TLS Overview and configuration
Although e-mail is an integral part of modern business, it still relies on insecure transport protocols that were designed before anyone could predict how important e-mail would become. However, network administrators can find some security and privacy assurance in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption and authentication protocol.
27 February 2009
MIMEsweeper for SMTP vs. Email Appliance
Product Comparison - MIMEsweeper for SMTP and Clearswift Email Appliance.
27 February 2009
Web Software vs. Web Appliance Comparison
Web Appliance vs. Web Software comparison
27 February 2009
Migrating from Web Software to a Web Appliance
The Clearswift Web Appliance shares the same powerful content engine as the MIMEsweeper for Web software, but being an appliance is packaged a little differently. This technical bulletin examines some of those differences and highlights areas of the appliance that improve on the capabilities available with the web software so that these can be considered when planning for the migration.
26 February 2009
Clearswift Web Appliance Evaluation Guide
This guide provides information to help you evaluate the Clearswift Web Appliance. It provides an overview of the main features and provides sample policy configurations to enable testing of the key features you would expect to see in a web security policy.
26 February 2009
Migrating from Email software to an Email appliance
The Clearswift Mail Appliance shares the same powerful content engine as the MIMEsweeper for SMTP software, but is packaged a little differently. An obvious difference is that the appliance comes with hardware – but even that is flexible – it is now offered in an ‘image’ form to be installed on your own hardware. A deployment in VMWARE ESX/ESXi is also fully supported.
26 February 2009
Clearswift Email Appliance Evaluation Guide
This guide provides information to help you evaluate the Clearswift Email Appliance. It provides an overview of the main features and provides sample policy configurations to enable testing of the key features you would expect to see in a content scanning mail relay.
26 February 2009
Clearswift Appliances and VMware - Technical FAQs
This document discusses some of the issues to be aware of and provides recommendations on how to plan and manage you Email or Web Appliance VM installations.
26 February 2009
Virtual Email and Web Appliance Hardware Support
Clearswift offers the MIMEsweeper Email Appliance (2.7.6) and MIMEsweeper Web Appliance (1.3) as a software download to supplement the hardware ranges based on Dell hardware. This increases customer choice provides the ability to scale the hardware platform beyond the biggest unit that Clearswift currently ships.