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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 Symantec’s approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats. sponsored by

Secure Your Email Infrastructure and Maintain Compliance 2006-09-08 01:00:28 Symantec

Email is currently the most critical enterprise messaging application. Beyond communication, it has become an important repository and record of corporate transactions and intellectual property. IT managers face the difficult challenge of mitigating risks to email such as malicious code, phishing attacks, viruses, and spam while ensuring system uptime and performance and satisfying regulatory and corporate requirements. This webcast shows how Symantec Mail Security for SMTP stops spam and phishing attacks using the Brightmail-based antispam engine; reduces directory harvest and other email-borne threats against the email infrastructure; prevents viruses and malicious code from bringing down servers and compromising data; and controls and monitors inbound and outbound email in support of regulatory compliance and internal policy.

How to Build an Effective Mail Server Defense: A Multi-Stage Approach to Securing Your Email Communication 2006-09-07 01:00:13 GECAD TECHNOLOGIES

When speaking of mail server-related security, one tends to limit the issue to message applied security measures, and even more to Antivirus and Antispam protection. This is however only one stage in the more complex process of securing the server. This paper aims at identifying and explaining all security layers, highly important when choosing a certain mail server and consequently when configuring and using it.

Email Security - Beyond the hype and hyperbole 2006-09-07 01:00:13 Clearswift

This guide takes a common sense approach to the email security challenge, aiming to avoid hyperbole by highlighting the practical, common sense steps that can be taken to beat the hackers. It provides an overview of the most common threats as well as a discussion of how a layered approach to security is the best route to effective countermeasures.

Ruling Out Spam With Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and Help From Capital Technologies Ltd. Saves a Law Firm $323,000 a Year 2006-09-05 01:00:12 Symantec

Spam makes up as much as 50 percent of the email that New Zealand law firm Kensington Swan receives each day. A custom antispam solution stopped 30 percent of that spam, but users still had to spend around 10 minutes a day deleting unwanted email, some of which was obscene, malicious, and potentially legally dangerous. Then the firm deployed Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam software. It is blocking virtually 100 percent of spam with zero false positives. This gives employees 200 hours a month for more productive uses, worth $318,000 year. The Symantec solution paid for itself in three weeks according to Symantec's calculations.

Caught in the SPAM Trap: A Periodic Report on Blocked Email 2006-12-14 01:00:24 MINDSHARE INTERACTIVE CAMPAIGNS

In a three-year continuing study of email sent to constituents by nonprofits, advocacy organizations and political groups, Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, LLC has identified keys that can dramatically increase email deliverability by reducing the factors that lead receiving organizations to block incoming email, even requested email. By using these keys, organizations can prevent their email messages to members, donors and other constituents from falling into the "SPAM trap."

Complying with HIPAA's Security Rule: Maintaining Security of ePHI over E-Communications 2006-05-10 Proofpoint

While compliance dates for various HIPAA rules have past, many healthcare related organizations are still in process with respect to full Security Rule compliance.

In this on-demand webinar Proofpoint security expert Sean Wilcox and HIPAA security expert, Barry Johnson from IGXGlobal, discuss how organizations can maintain the privacy and security of electronic protected health information (ePHI) over e-communications (i.e., SMTP, HTTP and FTP protocols).

View this webinar from Proofpoint to learn:

How to quickly assess the risk of ePHI leaving your organization over e-communications.

How to accurately detect and differentiate between ePHI and "de-identified" health information.

Top technical requirements for effectively enforcing your policy and complying with the HIPAA Security Rule.

Lessons learned from real implementations--from risk assessment to automated policy enforcement.

Plugging the Leaks: Proven Approaches for Securing Corporate Email 2006-08-28 13:07:22 Proofpoint

What's at stake with messaging security? Everything from jobs to a company's reputation—the very livelihood of the organization and its ability to compete.

Besides the obvious business need to safeguard proprietary information from competitors, news organizations, financial institutions and the general public, there are serious penalties for disclosure of certain types of private, sensitive and confidential information.

Companies need to control and filter outbound messages to mitigate the risk of this confidential information leaking into public view. How can IT managers address this challenge?

Read this paper from Proofpoint to learn:

Why organizations need to monitor all outbound protocols, including email, webmail, URL filtering and FTP.

Five initial best practices for managing content in and out of the enterprise.

The impact violations of compliance regulations can have on your organization.

Making Email More Available and Secure, Saving Millions of Dollars 2006-08-26 01:00:10 Symantec

After the acquisition of 30 companies, Advantage Sales and Marketing (ASM), one of the fastest growing sales and marketing agencies, wanted to consolidate its email systems into one centralized email infrastructure. Needing accurate spam protection, scalable storage, and accessible archives, ASM turned to Symantec for an email security and availability solution based on Veritas Enterprise Vault and Brightmail AntiSpam software. The company saved 60 percent on its initial investment and more than $3.0 million annually in employee-efficiency savings.

Four Popular Anti Spam Filters for Exchange Reviewed 2006-10-20 01:00:16 TechGenix

A user's only true defense against spam mail using Microsoft Exchange is to install third-party solutions. With this paper, the authors are going to compare and evaluate four products, each of them somewhat differentiated by its mode of operation and email filtering techniques. The four products that they have chosen to evaluate are: SPAM Smacker 1.0, GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP, MailMarshal, and Trend Micro ScanMail.

Webcast: Email Gateway Security: Moving Beyond Spam 2006-09-19 11:57:48 Sophos

Email is crucial to the operation of your company. It enables efficient communication and information-sharing, but it can also enable threats to infiltrate your network and sacrifice your operations. Adopting effective email threat prevention strategies is critical to manage this major security challenge.

Sophos invites you to check out this complimentary Webcast featuring Analyst and Email Security Expert Richi Jennings, along with Jeff Epstein, Product Marketing Manager for Sophos to learn about the evolution of email-borne threats and effective strategies to protect your email gateway.

Hosted by James Hilliard of TechRepublic, the Webcast addresses these important topics and more:

Defending against the growing diversity of email-borne threats

Employing optimum security with minimum impact on cost and productivity

Best practices to maintain your e-mail infrastructure

The outlook for email security

Now you can listen to this Webcast at your convenience, compliments of Sophos, for expert tips and advice on combating the threats that can compromise your network's security.

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Title	Date Added	Company
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 Symantec’s approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats.		sponsored by
Secure Your Email Infrastructure and Maintain Compliance	2006-09-08 01:00:28	Symantec
Email is currently the most critical enterprise messaging application. Beyond communication, it has become an important repository and record of corporate transactions and intellectual property. IT managers face the difficult challenge of mitigating risks to email such as malicious code, phishing attacks, viruses, and spam while ensuring system uptime and performance and satisfying regulatory and corporate requirements. This webcast shows how Symantec Mail Security for SMTP stops spam and phishing attacks using the Brightmail-based antispam engine; reduces directory harvest and other email-borne threats against the email infrastructure; prevents viruses and malicious code from bringing down servers and compromising data; and controls and monitors inbound and outbound email in support of regulatory compliance and internal policy.
How to Build an Effective Mail Server Defense: A Multi-Stage Approach to Securing Your Email Communication	2006-09-07 01:00:13	GECAD TECHNOLOGIES
When speaking of mail server-related security, one tends to limit the issue to message applied security measures, and even more to Antivirus and Antispam protection. This is however only one stage in the more complex process of securing the server. This paper aims at identifying and explaining all security layers, highly important when choosing a certain mail server and consequently when configuring and using it.
Email Security - Beyond the hype and hyperbole	2006-09-07 01:00:13	Clearswift
This guide takes a common sense approach to the email security challenge, aiming to avoid hyperbole by highlighting the practical, common sense steps that can be taken to beat the hackers. It provides an overview of the most common threats as well as a discussion of how a layered approach to security is the best route to effective countermeasures.
Ruling Out Spam With Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and Help From Capital Technologies Ltd. Saves a Law Firm $323,000 a Year	2006-09-05 01:00:12	Symantec
Spam makes up as much as 50 percent of the email that New Zealand law firm Kensington Swan receives each day. A custom antispam solution stopped 30 percent of that spam, but users still had to spend around 10 minutes a day deleting unwanted email, some of which was obscene, malicious, and potentially legally dangerous. Then the firm deployed Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam software. It is blocking virtually 100 percent of spam with zero false positives. This gives employees 200 hours a month for more productive uses, worth $318,000 year. The Symantec solution paid for itself in three weeks according to Symantec's calculations.
Caught in the SPAM Trap: A Periodic Report on Blocked Email	2006-12-14 01:00:24	MINDSHARE INTERACTIVE CAMPAIGNS
In a three-year continuing study of email sent to constituents by nonprofits, advocacy organizations and political groups, Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, LLC has identified keys that can dramatically increase email deliverability by reducing the factors that lead receiving organizations to block incoming email, even requested email. By using these keys, organizations can prevent their email messages to members, donors and other constituents from falling into the "SPAM trap."
Complying with HIPAA's Security Rule: Maintaining Security of ePHI over E-Communications	2006-05-10	Proofpoint
While compliance dates for various HIPAA rules have past, many healthcare related organizations are still in process with respect to full Security Rule compliance. In this on-demand webinar Proofpoint security expert Sean Wilcox and HIPAA security expert, Barry Johnson from IGXGlobal, discuss how organizations can maintain the privacy and security of electronic protected health information (ePHI) over e-communications (i.e., SMTP, HTTP and FTP protocols). View this webinar from Proofpoint to learn: How to quickly assess the risk of ePHI leaving your organization over e-communications. How to accurately detect and differentiate between ePHI and "de-identified" health information. Top technical requirements for effectively enforcing your policy and complying with the HIPAA Security Rule. Lessons learned from real implementations--from risk assessment to automated policy enforcement.
Plugging the Leaks: Proven Approaches for Securing Corporate Email	2006-08-28 13:07:22	Proofpoint
What's at stake with messaging security? Everything from jobs to a company's reputation—the very livelihood of the organization and its ability to compete. Besides the obvious business need to safeguard proprietary information from competitors, news organizations, financial institutions and the general public, there are serious penalties for disclosure of certain types of private, sensitive and confidential information. Companies need to control and filter outbound messages to mitigate the risk of this confidential information leaking into public view. How can IT managers address this challenge? Read this paper from Proofpoint to learn: Why organizations need to monitor all outbound protocols, including email, webmail, URL filtering and FTP. Five initial best practices for managing content in and out of the enterprise. The impact violations of compliance regulations can have on your organization.
Making Email More Available and Secure, Saving Millions of Dollars	2006-08-26 01:00:10	Symantec
After the acquisition of 30 companies, Advantage Sales and Marketing (ASM), one of the fastest growing sales and marketing agencies, wanted to consolidate its email systems into one centralized email infrastructure. Needing accurate spam protection, scalable storage, and accessible archives, ASM turned to Symantec for an email security and availability solution based on Veritas Enterprise Vault and Brightmail AntiSpam software. The company saved 60 percent on its initial investment and more than $3.0 million annually in employee-efficiency savings.
Four Popular Anti Spam Filters for Exchange Reviewed	2006-10-20 01:00:16	TechGenix
A user's only true defense against spam mail using Microsoft Exchange is to install third-party solutions. With this paper, the authors are going to compare and evaluate four products, each of them somewhat differentiated by its mode of operation and email filtering techniques. The four products that they have chosen to evaluate are: SPAM Smacker 1.0, GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP, MailMarshal, and Trend Micro ScanMail.
Webcast: Email Gateway Security: Moving Beyond Spam	2006-09-19 11:57:48	Sophos
Email is crucial to the operation of your company. It enables efficient communication and information-sharing, but it can also enable threats to infiltrate your network and sacrifice your operations. Adopting effective email threat prevention strategies is critical to manage this major security challenge. Sophos invites you to check out this complimentary Webcast featuring Analyst and Email Security Expert Richi Jennings, along with Jeff Epstein, Product Marketing Manager for Sophos to learn about the evolution of email-borne threats and effective strategies to protect your email gateway. Hosted by James Hilliard of TechRepublic, the Webcast addresses these important topics and more: Defending against the growing diversity of email-borne threats Employing optimum security with minimum impact on cost and productivity Best practices to maintain your e-mail infrastructure The outlook for email security Now you can listen to this Webcast at your convenience, compliments of Sophos, for expert tips and advice on combating the threats that can compromise your network's security.

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