Antispam Solutions for Business
January 25, 2008 | Category: Anti spam software
Historically, spam filtering has occurred at ISPs, on enterprise gateways (e.g., a DMZ server), on mail servers, and on desktops. These strategies, especially when they’re combined to create a multilayered solution, have been effective in reducing the amount of spam users receive in their mailboxes. But increases in spam create slower mail server processing rates as well as require additional storage for messages flagged as potential spam. That’s why many organizations are looking to replace their first-generation spam software solutions either with a spam-filtering appliance or by entrusting spam-filtering tasks to a hosted service. This Buyer’s Guide will help you evaluate spam-filtering appliances and hosted services so you can choose the technologies that provide the best email protection for your organization. Read more here.
Webroot Offering Cloud-Based E-mail Scanning
January 16, 2008 | Category: Newsbreak
Webroot, a company that made its fortune in the client-side spyware detection market, announced its entry into the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market with Webroot E-Mail Security SaaS, an e-mail security service for consumers and SMBs.
This product is the result of Webroot’s November 2007 merger with Email Systems, a SaaS security provider in the United Kingdom. The e-mail scanning works through both cloud-based scanning and by Webroot’s AntiSpyware Corporate Edition with AntiVirus end-point software. Between the two products, the security service uses up to five different antivirus and two different spam filtering engines. Read more