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In a research project, security consultants claimed to have collected more than 120,000 individual emails (20 GB of data) that included trade secrets, business invoices and other information as a result of misspelled domains names.
Cisco IronPort Outbreak Filters protect against personalized email attacks that target individuals or small groups
Kaspersky Lab in its most recent spam report for May 2011, revealed that Russia has taken the number one position in terms of the quantity of malware detected in emails by antivirus programs.
With Varonis DatAdvantage for Exchange, administrators have increased visibility over built-in Microsoft Exchange journaling and diagnostics which only captures a limited amount of data.
Google announced today that via its “cloud-based security and abuse detection systems,” it uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing.
The Rustock Botnet was sending as many as 13.82 Billion spam emails each day before being taken down early this month, in an effort headed by Microsoft in cooperation with authorities and the legal system.
BT launches managed secure messaging for financial services community
While 71% of employees understand the risks, 47% still feel that it’s okay to use personal accounts to send work emails.
Global Spam Declines to Levels Reminiscent of McColo Shutdown; Pharmaceutical Spam Takes a Dive
WatchGuard XCS Appliances Get Improvements to Stop Spam; Gain New Encryption Capabilities

FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Email Security

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Transport Layer Security is a means of securing the transmission of email between two MTAs (mail transfer agents). In this column, I’ve highlighted some of the other things that can be done with TLS besides this opportunistic encryption of email.
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Inbound email to your firm containing important communications related to revenue or customer service could be blocked by your own anti-spam software. How can you prevent against false positives?
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Interest in Converged Infrastructure solutions has been surging due to the demands of cloud computing. This trend toward Converged Infrastructure has important implications for the email security IT infrastructure.
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Thinking of migrating mailboxes to a cloud provider? The email backbone is an important architectural tool when dealing with the migration of email mailboxes and maintaining email integrity during the migration process.
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These best practices for DKIM can help you get more email delivered and lower the likelihood that a message will be categorized as spam.
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The driver for choosing SaaS as a deployment model is typically cost. But SaaS as a model for CRM can have a downside when it comes to email—the potential for deliverability problems.
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One of the best ways to optimize security for messaging infrastructure is to leverage the power of something already deployed—the corporate directory.
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Enterprises today need to not only understand how Data Leak Prevention (DLP) impacts their organization, but also need to be aware of DLP specifically as it relates to email.
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DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) was created as an Internet standard method of instilling trust back in email. These best practices around DKIM verification outline what organizations should consider in order to trust email and prevent phishing.
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When considering policy-based email encryption, there are best practices that an organization can follow for policy-based email encryption.

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