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How Does the State of Spam Affect Your Small Business?
Spammers use popular events to cover their tracks?. The recent death of Michael Jackson and its subsequent public interest show that spammers are willing to use any notable event as a cover to distribute their messages. Symantec State of Spam report shows that 90 percent of all email coming into the network is spam, which can waste server resources and reduce employee productivity while exposing one to malware and criminal threats. Small businesses are especially vulnerable to spam attacks due to limited IT staffing. The attendee of this webcast will learn about the latest spam threat landscape and the cost of spam to small businesses.
215 days ago by SymantecMalware in Email
Email is known to be one of the most popular infection vectors. Besides malicious programs attached to messages, email is linked to other threats such as phishing and messages containing links to infected web pages. Finally, spam which uses social engineering techniques to get users to perform specific actions is also a threat. This Whitepaper specifically analyzes malware which is distributed via email.
233 days ago by Borderware TechnologiesSpam Detection Using Clustering, Random Forests, and Active Learning
This paper describes work in progress. The research is focused on efficient construction of effective models for spam detection. Clustering messages allows for efficient labeling of a representative sample of messages for learning a spam detection model using a Random Forest for classification and active learning for refining the classification model. Results are illustrated for the 2007 TREC Public Spam Corpus. The area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve is competitive with other solutions while requiring much fewer labeled training examples.
248 days ago by George Mason UniversityCancer Treatment Centers of America
Launched in 1988, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has more than 130 guest rooms and outpatient oncology clinics in Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Washington. As spam has increased in volume and complexity, CTCA recognized a need for the most advanced encryption techniques and content filtering to safeguard its email infrastructure. CTCA deployed Cisco IronPort C-Series provides CTCA with an agile, single-source anti-spam solution that is easily managed to halt the most challenging email threats.
355 days ago by Cisco SystemsCompliance Rules: Best Practices for Cost-Effective, Comprehensive Compliance
Unmanaged email and other ESI can trigger financial, productivity, and legal nightmares should your organization one day find itself embroiled in a workplace lawsuit. Best practices call for a proactive approach to email management. Combine written content, usage, and retention policies with a Hosted Managed Email Archiving Service to ensure your organization's ability to preserve, locate, and produce legally valid email evidence.
386 days ago by MessageLabs, now part of SymantecComparing Industry Leading Anti-Spam Services
The following analysis summarizes the spam catch and false positive rates of the leading anti-spam vendors. Compiled by Opus One, an independent research firm, this report provides data to objectively compare the market's most popular anti-spam solutions. All of the anti-spam solutions tested are in Gartner's 2008 "Leaders" or "Challengers" Magic Quadrant. In total, eight vendors were evaluated over the course of fifteen months The only vendor mentioned by name is the evaluation leader: Cisco IronPort. The remaining vendor names have been obfuscated.
386 days ago by Cisco SystemsEnabling business growth with expert security solutions. Protecting your systems and your data
Hackers, viruses, worms, spams, spy ware and inside attacks can stop organisations growing. This white paper deals with these vunerabilities and how to achieve cost effective soultions.
425 days ago by IBMSecurity Bloopers: Five Common Mistakes
Wondering if you've adequately protected your network can cause sleepless nights. In the rush of your workday, what could you have missed? Sleep better by avoiding the common mistakes listed on this page.
Your Message on the Move: An Introduction to Mobile Marketing and Mobile Advertising
Remember when e-mail marketing was all the rage? It was marketing at its best. It cost close to nothing to send out an email. Plus, companies were able to gauge results of a campaign quickly by measuring open rates, click-throughs, bounced messages, and, most importantly, conversions. It didn't take long for the SPAM'ers to figure that one out, however. Suddenly, the mailboxes were all inundated with Viagra, Asian girls, and mysterious personal letters from princes in Nigeria. In total, 88% of the e-mail that reaches your computer is SPAM (Secure Computing). So, the United States government made it illegal for businesses to send e-mail messages to citizens, apparently forgetting that "www" stood for "Worldwide" web.
476 days ago byRed Condor Message Assurance Gateway
Red Condor's Message Assurance Gateway (MAG) appliances provide unsurpassed email security against internal and external threats such as spam, viruses, spyware, phishing schemes, identity theft, and other dangerous and offensive content. Continually monitored and managed by Red Condor's spam fighting experts, these zero touch appliances reduce the time spent on system management by the local IT administrator.
490 days ago by Red Condor
