How Symantec Brightmail Works

An organization deploys the Symantec Brightmail software at its site. Symantec has email probes set around the Internet for detection of new spam. Symantec technicians create custom rules to block this spam in realtime. These rules are downloaded to Symantec Brightmail servers, also in realtime. The Symantec Brightmail database is updated and the Symantec Brightmail server runs this database filter against the email for the specified users or domains.