Scalable email security and delivery platform for universities and research institutions

Q: How quickly are phishing waves addressed?

Inbound Campaign Auto-Protect automatically detects multi-user targeting from the same external sender and provides early protection.

Q: Do legitimate academic senders get quarantined?

Trusted False Positive Learning recognizes trusted senders by learning from administrator-approved false positive records.

Spam protection, phishing prevention and hybrid Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace integration for student mail, academic staff and research collaboration traffic. Enterprise gateway optimized for large mailbox environments.

Üniversiteler 50K+ MAILBOX

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Student MailPROTECTED

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M365

Hybrid

Google

Workspace

KVKK

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Campaign FP Learn Retention

50K+

Mailbox scale

M365

Hybrid ready

KVKK

Data residency

24/7

NOC monitoring

Industry challenges

Pitbull is built to solve these challenges in one platform.

Student phishing waves

Phishing campaigns from the same external sender targeting hundreds of students spread rapidly.

Large mailbox scale

Tens of thousands of accounts and high traffic volume require operational visibility and retention.

Hybrid cloud complexity

Consistent security policy across M365, Google Workspace and on-prem systems is difficult.

Identity protection

Compromised student and staff accounts create research data and institutional reputation risk.

Why Pitbull?

For education institutions, Pitbull is not just a spam filter — it is a scalable email operations platform.

Enterprise Email Delivery Platform

Operations control in large mailbox environments with Async Retention Engine and live NOC.

Email Operations Platform

Early intervention against campaign-based phishing waves with Inbound Campaign Auto-Protect.

Security & Reputation Platform

Prevent legitimate academic communication from repeated quarantine with Trusted False Positive Learning.

Security benefits

Multi-layer security engine and operational visibility.

Campaign Protection

Automatically detects multi-user targeting from the same sender with Inbound Campaign Auto-Protect.

Smart FP Learning

Academic senders are recognized as trusted via Trusted False Positive Learning.

Spam & Phishing

Multi-layer inbound filtering with Rspamd, Native Phishing Heuristics and ClamAV.

Identity Protection

Protection against account takeover attempts via domain impersonation and header anomaly signals.

Email scale and security together in education

Universities operate large mailbox environments with tens of thousands of student and staff accounts. Student mail systems, research collaboration and academic communication traffic are constant targets for spam, phishing and identity theft attacks.

Pitbull goes beyond traditional mail gateway boundaries with delivery intelligence, campaign-based phishing protection and hybrid cloud integration. Go live in minutes via MX-based deployment in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments.

Mail flow architecture

MX Gateway — Students & Staff

All inbound traffic is filtered through Pitbull Security Engine; campaign-based threats are caught early.

Quarantine & Self-Service

Suspicious messages in quarantine; administrators decide in bulk via Bulk Quarantine Release.

Hybrid Delivery

Clean messages are delivered to Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or on-prem mail servers.

Research & Collaboration

International research collaboration traffic is protected via secure outbound relay.

Supported integrations

Microsoft 365 Google Workspace Exchange On-Prem Hybrid MX LDAP / SSO Student Mail

Key features

✓ Student mail spam & phishing protection
✓ Inbound Campaign Auto-Protect
✓ Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace hybrid
✓ Trusted False Positive Learning
✓ Large-scale retention management
✓ Bulk Quarantine Release
✓ Audit log & security reports
✓ Research collaboration security

Compliance

KVKK Compliance

Processing of student and staff data within Turkey and log separation.
Institutional Audit

IT management and audit readiness with audit log and periodic security reports.
Data Retention

Large-scale log and quarantine retention management via Async Retention Engine.
Availability

Continuity during academic peak periods with high availability and smart queue management.

Platform

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Use cases

Industry-specific operational scenarios.

Student Mail System

Centralized spam and phishing protection for tens of thousands of student accounts.

Academic Staff

Secure filtering of research collaboration and international communication traffic.

Hybrid M365 / Google

Consistent MX-based security layer across cloud and on-prem environments.

Phishing Wave Response

Early blocking in campaign-based attacks with Inbound Campaign Auto-Protect.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. It integrates with both platforms and hybrid environments via MX-based deployment.

Async Retention Engine and Redis-based log infrastructure are optimized for large mailbox environments. Security Engine hot path target is <200ms.

Inbound Campaign Auto-Protect automatically detects multi-user targeting from the same external sender and provides early protection.

Trusted False Positive Learning recognizes trusted senders by learning from administrator-approved false positive records.

Evaluate your enterprise email operations

Pitbull is more than a mail gateway — a delivery intelligence, reputation management and security automation platform.

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