Microsoft to offer hosted security for Exchange

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- Microsoft to offer hosted security for Exchange
- Security As a Service Cures IT Security Headaches
- Report measures environmental impact of spam

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.

Security As a Service Cures IT Security Headaches
xchange Magazine
0 includes lightning-fast “in-the-cloud” technology to protect desktops and laptops. It also provides comprehensive protection for servers including unique rootkit detection. As a new component this release introduces high quality e-mail protection and spam control. PSB is available as Security as a Service (PSB Advanced) for customers who want to buy a service instead of technology or software or as a corporate managed solution (PSB Standard).
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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.

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