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Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam | 26/03/08 |
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Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike for more than five years, growing from one in six emails in 2002 to approximately three out of four emails today. This white paper focuses on the problems caused by image spam, as well as other spammer techniques for delivering content through existing spam-blocking defenses. The paper also discusses Symantec’s approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats.
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Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam | 2008-03-01 12:24:44 |
Symantec |
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Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike for more than five years, growing from one in six emails in 2002 to approximately three out of four emails today. This white paper focuses on the problems caused by image spam, as well as other spammer techniques for delivering content through existing spam-blocking defenses. The paper also discusses Symantec’s approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats.
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The E-mail Management Crisis: New Research on the Seven Critical E-mail Management Problems | 0000-00-00 |
MessageOne |
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With e-mail message stores growing at a rate of more than 30 percent per year and the sheer volume of e-mail expected to reach 120 billion messages by 2009, enterprise storage is entering a state of crisis. Most impacted by this crisis will be those organizations whose storage systems can't meet their increasingly stringent requirements for:
- Performance
- Security
- Disaster recovery
- Regulatory compliance
- Legal discovery
Download this white paper to learn how you can tackle the problems associated with bulging e-mail stores and to find out what to consider when evaluating e-mail archiving systems.
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Osterman Research: A Comparison of Leading Messaging Management Tools | 2006-12-14 19:21:43 |
Sunbelt Software |
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To understand organizations' perceptions about various email management systems, Sunbelt Software engaged Osterman Research to survey organizations that are using five different email management systems including Barracuda Spam Firewall, GFI MailEssentials, McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange, and Symantec Brightmail. This white paper presents the results of that survey, comparing Sunbelt Software's Messaging Ninja with the other four systems. The tools were evaluated on these key criteria:
- Anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing, and attachment filtering capabilities
- Improvements in spam capture efficiency
over time
- Improvements in anti-spam false positive performance over time
- Ease of use
- Reliability
- Person-hours spent on system deployment
(per 1,000 users)
- Person-hours required for system management (per 1,000 users)
This paper is a must-read for any IT strategist or e-mail administrator who's actively researching messaging management tools for a mid-market enterprise.
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Phishing Attacks in and Around April Through September 2006 | 2006-12-16 01:00:21 |
Symantec |
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This paper describes phishing trends from April 2006 through September 2006 inclusive. The aim is to perform the kind of careful analysis done in the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, but with a focus on phishing. The authors looked at data that originated from both the Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and Norton Confidential systems. They were specifically interested in the overall magnitude of phishing, the geographic breakdowns of phishing servers, and the segmentation of brands spoofed in a phishing attack. This paper details the statistics computed, the methodology used to derive these statistics and the limitations of the methodology.
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What Email Hackers Know That You Don't | 2007-02-22 03:24:57 |
Secure Computing |
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This document outlines how hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in e-mail systems, and describes the widely available hacking tools they use. As a collection of already published risks to e-mail security, this white paper is written to educate IT security managers on the challenges they face when attempting to secure their email infrastructure.
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Targeted Attacks: A Special Report | 2006-11-02 07:20:17 |
Trend Micro |
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This story of a real-life attack illustrates that it's a lot easier than most people realize for a determined attacker to wreak havoc, especially when the targeted systems aren't fully prepared.
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Businesses Beware: The New Battlefront on Email and Web Attacks | 0000-00-00 |
MessageLabs |
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This white paper examines the nature of the new threats, what they're designed to achieve, and their true costs to business. It examines the alternatives available to combat them: appliances, software and Managed Services. It assesses their strengths and weaknesses, and their relative total cost of ownership. The need for creating certainty in all our exchange of electronic information is clear, whether this is across email, the internet, VoIP or instant messaging. Achieving it, without hampering the speed and continuity of business over the internet, requires strategy. If you are interested in learning more about the new threat landscape and combating these threats, download our white paper.
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Legal Risks of Uncontrolled Email and Web Content | 2006-11-01 08:37:22 |
MessageLabs |
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Email is critical to business; its ease of use, combined with speed and scale of distribution, make it an invaluable business tool. Today, businesses could not function without consistent and unfettered access to the Internet. However, these attributes can also cause severe difficulties for employers if employees' use of email and the Internet is not controlled adequately. This summary considers some of the risks that employers face. Download this whitepaper to learn how your business can ensure against legal risks of enforcing e-policy.
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A Guide to Centralized Spam and Virus Filtering | 2006-11-01 01:00:29 |
Sun Microsystems |
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Spam and viruses constitute an enormous amount of mail on the Internet, wasting bandwidth and clogging the queues on defenseless mail servers. If delivered, the viruses also waste company resources as they spread. Mail administrators have taken a variety of approaches to defending their users from these two culprits, but it's difficult to keep up with new techniques and viruses and worms. This paper explores the integration of Sendmail, MIMEDefang, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, and Vipul's Razor as a partial measure against spam and viruses.
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Spyware: The Latest Trends | 2006-11-01 06:26:19 |
Trend Micro |
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This Trend Micro white paper discusses the latest trends in broadband, wireless, and network interconnectivity, and the progress of information exchange. It also highlights an example of emerging spyware that exposes users to the possibility of identity theft, data corruption, and personal profiling.
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