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whitepaper Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam26/03/08 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 Symantec’s approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats.  sponsored by
whitepaper South Nottingham College Gets the Right Result With SurfControl's RiskFilter Anti-Spam Solution2008-01-01 SurfControl
  The existing Antivirus system in place at South Nottingham College was struggling to block all the attempted infections coming in via e-mail and, in turn, servers were slowing down significantly. The college's 'Course enquiries' address was also coming under attack, as so much spam was arriving at the e-mail address that it was difficult to spot genuine enquiries. In turn, the college was losing students and revenue and its strong reputation was being damaged in the process. Since installing RiskFilter, South Nottingham College has almost completely eliminated unsolicited e-mails therefore the worry of offensive content reaching students.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Sendio Case Study: Pechanga Resort & Casino2008-01-01 Sendio
  Pechanga Resort & Casino is a four diamond casino located on the Pechanga Indian Reservation in Temecula, CA and also California's largest casino. With 1500 e-mail users, Pechanga's IT Security Administrator, was struggling with a spam problem that his filter wasn't able to solve and users that were spending upwards of two hours daily maintaining their e-mail inboxes. Pechanga selected Sendio's E-mail Security Platform (ESP) to totally eliminate spam and e-mail threats and because unlike filters, which require ongoing maintenance but are only partially effective it incorporates a critical human element that brings authenticity and control to e-mail communications. Immediately after implementing Sendio's ESP, Pechanga saw a dramatic decrease in spam, with just the Silver Listing feature enabled.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Security Administration		   
whitepaper Eliminating Spam in Its Tracks With Multi-Layered Solutions From Symantec2007-12-11 Symantec
  At SEGA Corporation, a global amusement and game software firm, 3,000 emails an hour consisted of 70 percent spam. This huge influx was wasting staff time and slowing email servers. SEGA sought to address this problem by automatically deleting spam, so it needed a solution that could be trusted to never block legitimate email. Symantec's multi-layered solution, combining Mail Security 8160 and 8260 devices, over 92 percent of English and non-English spam, with zero false positives.

Tags: Internet and Web, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper IronPort Ensures Safe Email Travel for One of the World's Largest Airport Authorities2007-11-29 Cisco Systems
  Like many organizations, French airport group Aeroports de Paris is facing a massive amount of incoming spam. For some employees, spam accounts for 75-95 percent of incoming mail. de Paris IT department started looking for a solution to control unwanted mail flows. More than just an anti-spam tool, the solution had to act as a true, reliable and robust SMTP email gateway - integrating several technologies provide network security, both upstream and downstream. Out of 740,000 incoming messages each day, an average 11.5 percent contain spam and 3.5 percent carry viruses. Aeroports de Paris deployed two IronPort C60 email security appliances, which protect over 8,000 mailboxes against spam and viruses.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Global Leader in IT Business Management Irons Out Its Email Security Problem2007-11-29 Cisco Systems
  Touchpaper provides round-the-clock support services and software to thousands of customers around the globe. Maintaining high levels of customer service requires effective and efficient communications tools such as email. Although Touchpaper had an anti-spam solution in place, the software was struggling to keep up with the evolution of spam-based messaging and to separate legitimate emails from spam emails. This meant that legitimate emails would be quarantined alongside suspected viruses and spam. Apart from the obvious inconvenience to the intended recipient and the frustrations of the sender, the IT department faced an increasing workload. Touchpaper used IronPort's Active Directory Integration to manage groups of users and assign appropriate privileges, such as attachment size, to certain teams or individual users.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Cloudmark Case Study: B2B2C2007-11-27 CloudMark
  Headquartered in Montreal, B2B2C offers high-speed Internet access, web hosting services and private IP networks to business, enterprise and residential customers. Beyond the need to enhance filtering accuracy, B2B2C also faced other challenges. They were spending an increasing amount of time maintaining and updating rule sets for SpamAssassin. Furthermore, increasingly heavy rule sets had dramatically degraded performance by 50%. Cloudmark approached B2B2C with the opportunity to trial Cloudmark Authority, a carrier-grade software plug-in for the SpamAssassin platform. B2B2C built its messaging security platform on open source code, and deployed Apache SpamAssassin for their messaging security.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Engate Delivers Enterprise-Class Email Protection and Preemptively Stops Progressive Botnet Attacks2007-11-14
  Atreus Systems delivers industry-leading telecommunications systems to carriers and cable operators worldwide. With seven global satellite offices, email plays a key role in the day-to-day business operations. Atreus was using Microsoft to filter its spam messages. Unfortunately, over the past three years, unsolicited emails such as spam, phish, dangerous attachments and botnet attacks began to overwhelm employee's inboxes at an alarming rate. Seeking an effective anti-spam solution, the company evaluated several email security products in the market. After reading about Engate's "Product of the Year Award" by Communications Solutions magazine, they decided to investigate and set up a no cost, no risk 30-day trial. Within minutes of installing the appliance, Engate delivered immediate results.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Leading Airline Soars With IronPort's Email Security Appliances2007-11-14 Cisco Systems
  JetBlue Airways Corporation found its previous security system increasingly inadequate in its ability to block spam and viruses without creating troublesome false positives. The airline also required a solution that would save on administrative time and hassles. IronPort provided JetBlue Airways with a multi-vendor, multi-layer email security solution that incorporates the industry's best solutions from the market's leading vendors of anti-spam, anti-virus, encryption, digital rights management and archiving technologies. Utilizing data from IronPort's SenderBase IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters identify virus threats in real-time at their initial outbreak and quarantine them for scanning.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper McAfee Spam Filter Improves IT Department Performance at Berendsen2007-11-11 McAfee
  Berendsen Textil Service is a value added provider of textiles and hygiene articles to hotels, restaurants, hospitals, nursing homes and other public institutions in 9 European countries. The company had a conventional email scanning system, but they did not have a solution that was capable of meeting the challenges faced by a company the size of Berendsen. The company spent too many resources on spam. The staff and the IT department spent a lot of time receiving and providing support, and a lot of bandwidth was wasted. Berendsen chose McAfee Secure Internet Gateway 3100 - a gateway appliance solution that scans all incoming email for spam and viruses.

Tags: LAN - WAN, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper IronPort Provides Lessons in Email Security2007-10-18 Cisco Systems
  With 29 elementary, 9 junior high and 5 high schools, as well as nearly 5000 staff, and 28,000 students, Weber School District is one of the largest K-12 school districts in Utah. Over 540,000 emails per day are directed to the students and staff of Weber School District, and more than 97 percent of those messages are spam. Not only is the content of these messages damaging to students, it can act as a vector for destructive desktop viruses, and overload the District's four Groupwise 7.1 servers. In late 2005, Weber School District installed an IronPort C30 email security appliance. Weber School District is also running IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Internet and Web