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Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam | 26/03/08 | Symantec |
| 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 Symantecs approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats. | sponsored by![]() |
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Spam Removed From Menu at United Community Bank | 2008-07-01 | |
| United Community Bank (UCB) provides banking services to consumers and businesses in Georgia, western North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee. Spam, viruses, worms, and other malicious thieves of time and bandwidth challenge most businesses' quest for efficiency, and United Community Bank is no exception. Although the company has never had a security breach, spam was consuming a growing percentage of bandwidth, which hinders network performance and increases costs. They had a philosophy of selective outsourcing, so when Verizon Business proposed Managed Email with Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus and Content Control, they took note. The company deployed Verizon Business MultiProtocol Label Switching-based Private IP for branch networking.
Tags: Internet and Web, Intrusion - Tampering |
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Cyberoam UTM Protects Mission-Critical Banking Systems in Imperial Bank, Kenya | 2008-06-27 | Elitecore Technologies |
| Imperial Bank, Nairobi, Kenya established in March 1993, has been ranked amongst the top 10 Banks in Kenya by Market Intelligence. Following the precedent of high standards set in their banking practices, the bank wanted to regulate the Internet access and secure the internal network in addition to securing branch connectivity. Mr. Osonga scoured the market for a solution to fit their security needs. He initially used the spam and virus detection rates as bench marks. While Cyberoam had the best figures in the industry, during the evaluation, he found that the prompt response and strong technical assistance from Cyberoam was also an added advantage. He soon realized that Cyberoam's technical assistance will play a decisive role in his purchase decision due to its long term benefits.
Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering |
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Handling Email Security for a Regional Telecommunications Leader | 2008-06-18 | Cisco Systems |
| Panhandle Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (PTCI) dominates its market area, providing a full range of telephone, cellular, internet and television services to commercial and residential customers. Panhandle previous security systems failed to meet the demands imposed by increased email traffic volumes, including system stability and heightened pressures on network management. PTCI has in excess of 11,000 users. Among its email security requirements, PTCI demanded a system that could provide maximum throughput of heavy volumes of email without crashing and compromising the integrity of its system. Realizing it needed to upgrade its security system, PTCI conducted a research. Based on that review, and the testimonials of satisfied customers, the company selected the IronPort C-Series to provide the stability and security it required.
Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering |
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Cloudmark Case Study: SureWest Communications | 2008-06-17 | CloudMark |
| SureWest Communications is one of the nation's leading independent communications holding companies. Growing outbound spam was causing increased resource consumption (CPU, disk and admin) and putting company at risk of blacklisting by other ISPs. SureWest sought an outbound filtering solution that could extend the capability of its existing SpamAssassin implementation. Since team members at SureWest had prior experience with Razor, an open source plug-in developed by Cloudmark, the company decided to test Cloudmark Authority, a carrier-grade software plug-in for SpamAssassin resulting in the deployment.
Tags: Desktop Client OS, Intrusion - Tampering |
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Sophos Case Study: North Fond Du Lac School District | 2008-06-12 | Sophos |
| When the School District of North Fond du Lac began to want more from a web filtering solution that would best meet the needs of its diverse groups, it turned to Sophos. It then added Sophos's email appliance and endpoint security solution to further protect the District. For the next five years, North Fond du Lac benefited from proactive protection with Sophos's enterprise security suite.
Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering |
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SonicWALL Case Study: Jet Plumbing | 2008-06-01 | SonicWall |
| Jet Plumbing and Drain Services provides plumbing, heating and drain service work for residential, commercial and industrial customers in the Northern Nevada region. The challenge was to eliminating over 90,000 spam messages per day leaking through a Barracuda device, while reducing administrative overhead. Jet Plumbing and Drain Services deployed SonicWALL Email Security (ES) 200 anti-spam appliance, featuring award-winning anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing, policy and compliance management and SonicWALL TZ 180 Wireless network security appliance featuring Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention Services, Content Filtering Service and ViewPoint reporting.
Tags: Intrusion - Tampering |
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Net-a-Porter.com: How an Online Fashion Retailer Used Lyris ListManager to Consolidate Its Online Promotions | 2008-05-29 | Lyris Technologies |
| As a global business, Net-A-Porter needed a powerful tool to create, send and track its online promotions. Unfortunately, the proprietary system that the company had developed simply wasn't able to keep up with the volume of customers or with the complexity of the company's online campaigns. The company turned to Lyris ListManager to streamline its outbound email marketing.
Tags: Intrusion - Tampering |
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Stevens Aviation Saves Money, Time and Resources With Webroot SaaS | 2008-05-05 | Webroot Software |
| In an average day, Stevens Aviation receives approximately 120,000 e-mails, nearly 93 percent of which are illegitimate. This amount of spam was hindering employee productivity and crippling Stevens Aviation's systems. Since its previous filtering system could only process 300,000 e-mails at a time, it lacked the functionality to effectively manage the large amount of e-mails and overwhelmed the company's valuable bandwidth. In researching a solution that would offer best-in-class antivirus and antispam protection, Stevens Aviation chose award-winning technology from Webroot that offered the features and functionality the company was seeking. Stevens Aviation chose a suite of tools from Webroot to manage its e-mail filtering, including Webroot E-Mail Security SaaS, which provides enterprise-class protection without the added cost or management requirements.
Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering |
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Fred Olsen Sails Smoothly With MailMarshal | 2008-03-26 | |
| For the last two years Fred Olsen used MAILsweeper from Clearswift to control spam. However, the IT team was growing increasingly concerned about the high volume of spam that was getting through. The solution also underperformed and delayed or halted legitimate email from being delivered. Early in 2007 the Fred Olsen IT team began its search for an effective solution to resolve its spam problems and protect its network and bandwidth. They explored solutions from major security vendors, including Websense/ Blackspider, McAfee, SurfControl, Clearswift and Marshal, and concluded that a hardware appliance solution would both solve their spam issue and reduce the load on the current servers. The team deployed MailMarshal appliance in the live Environment.
Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Internet and Web |
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IronPort Builds an Email Security Solution for an Industry-Leading Manufacturer | 2008-03-11 | Cisco Systems |
| Komatsu, Ltd. is a leading, global manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, industrial machinery and vehicles. Komatsu initiated an aggressive assessment of its overall corporate email security and threat deterrence capabilities to ensure its maximum compliance. The study revealed a deteriorating ability to protect against spam. The problem was compounded by viruses entering the network as attachments to spam messages or embedded in messages URLs. With its existing security system, the organization was unable to automatically delete new virus pattern files in time to prevent their spread. Komatsu tapped IronPort as its new email security provider, capitalizing on the proven power of the IronPort C350 email security appliance to provide advanced threat protection, block spam and deliver easy enforcement of corporate policies.
Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering |
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