Microsoft to offer hosted security for Exchange

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- Microsoft to offer hosted security for Exchange
- Report measures environmental impact of spam
- Iron Mountain Enhances Portfolio with Hosted Email Management and …
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- Sulphur Bank Superfund site to receive millions in federal …

Microsoft to offer hosted security for Exchange
CNET News
PDT with more details and comments from Microsoft executive. Microsoft will begin offering its first hosted security service under the Forefront brand on Thursday dubbed Forefront nline Security for Exchange and designed to help keep malware and spam out of e-mail in-boxes. The hosted service which will cost $20 per user per year or less based on volume licensing targets enterprise Exchange customers and includes a Web-based console for setting up policies for virus and spam protection said Doug Leland general manager of Microsoft’s Identity and Security Business Group. The releases will follow the timeline of Exchange 2010 which entered public beta. More hosted security services will be coming but Leland declined to elaborate. Microsoft also will finally release on Thursday a new public beta version of its Stirling security suite which is the next generation of the Forefront software.

Report measures environmental impact of spam
MX Logic
According to the report released by a large web security and. "While the spam that arrives in any individual’s inbox may create just a small puff of C2 the puff multiplied by millions of users worldwide adds up" according to the report compiled for the security company by consulting company ICF International. The energy used by email filtering devices and by recipients who must view and delete spam that has evaded the filters (false negatives) and check for legitimate mail caught in filters (false positives) contributes to the overall problem the report said.

Iron Mountain Enhances Portfolio with Hosted Email Management and …
PR Newswire (press release)
Users can search archives from their desktops getting results in less than a second. Email continuity service – Complete access to email even during outages and disasters. Email spam protection and email antivirus protection – A spam filtering solution stops 99 percent of spam and has a perfect track record for stopping viruses. Data Leak Prevention – Allows administrators to set policies to detect and prevent key confidential or restricted information within emails and attachments from leaking to unauthorized persons. Retention policies are suspended to prevent destruction if a legal hold is declared. Full forensic audit trails are maintained on every search and every access to retained emails.

Avira Premium Security Suite 9
PC Magazine
The spam filter while accurate slowed e-mail downloading to a huge degree. ProsFirewall successfully protects against hack attacks and exploits. Good accuracy in spam filter. Small impact on system performance. Strips malware from incoming Web and e-mail streams. ConsMalware protection is intrusive complex. Serious bug in on-demand malware scan.

Sulphur Bank Superfund site to receive millions in federal …
Lake County News
79in } P { margin-bottom: 0. 08in } A:link { so-language: zxx } –>CLEARLAKE AKS – A new allocation of federal stimulus money will soon be heading to Lake County. n Wednesday Lisa P. Jackson administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced $600 million in new funding new funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for Superfund cleanups around the nation. The money is meant to cleanup hazardous waste sites and create jobs. In Lake County up to $5 million will be allocated to work on remediation that's already under way at the Sulphur Bank mercury mine Superfund site near Clearlake aks. It's one of 50 sites that will see new or expanded cleanup actions due to the allocation of recovery funds.
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