# Introduction

<span class="text-4505230f--TextH400-3033861f--textContentFamily-49a318e1"><span data-key="1994d1c631164f18a8f4a1d1f1a41463">Hermes Secure Email Gateway is a Free Open Source (Hermes SEG Community Only) Email Gateway that provides Spam, Virus and Malware protection, full in-transit and at-rest email encryption as well as email archiving.</span></span>

<span class="text-4505230f--TextH400-3033861f--textContentFamily-49a318e1"><span data-key="bf279038de674074bfb7e8655366ff62">Hermes Secure Email Gateway combines Open Source technologies such as Postfix, Apache SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Amavisd-new and CipherMail under one unified web based Web GUI for easy administration and management of your incoming and ougoing email for your organization.</span></span>

<span class="text-4505230f--TextH400-3033861f--textContentFamily-49a318e1"><span data-key="5e13da957470473883e66fd2fb4e3fc0">It can be deployed to protect your in-house email solution as well as cloud email solutions such as Google Mail and Microsoft Office 365.</span></span>