The News Review:
- Symantec targets SMEs in new security offering
- rascom Deploys Fortinet’s Solution to Block Spam
- Board has not blocked e-mails
- USA.NET Unveils Enhanced Commercial Messaging Service 2.0
- Crap Detection 101
- rascom Telecom Blocks Spam With Fortinet
- Google Warns f Social Profile Spam
Symantec targets SMEs in new security offering
Business Mirror
?With the acquisition of Mi5?s web security technology Symantec is further addressing the fastest-growing path for malware to infect network environments. ? The firm?s protection software suite for small businesses is described by the firm in its product specification materials as an ?easy-to-use suite that protects critical business assets by securing them against today?s malware and spam threats by rapidly recovering client computer systems. ? The new software also provides ?complete protection creating a secure environment where computer system failure malware and spam risks are identified and addressed immediately. ? It also comes with a sofware installation wizard and easy-to-use graphic user interface to simplify the deployment of the software and reduce the level of expertise needed to use it. This enterprise-level software suite provides multiple layers of protection across multiple platforms and enables the quick recovery of individual files and folders that may be lost temporarily in the event of system loss or failure to minimize downtime. This combination of security and system recovery features Symantec said in a statement ?[enables] businesses to completely protect easily manage and automatically control their assets. ? Symantec Enterprise Security Group vice president Art Gilliland noted that ?as the number and sophistication of web-based viruses and malicious code continues to rise small businesses need to be secured with more than just traditional antivirus technology.
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rascom Deploys Fortinet’s Solution to Block Spam
TMCnet
Company officials said that e-mail is a “mission-critical” business application on which all corporate employees and executives rely. The previous third-party security software installed on the Exchange servers could not cope with the high amount of spam received everyday. fficials said that the software turned out to be “ineffective” both in terms of robustness and accuracy. fficials said that their company selected FortiMail appliance for its “accuracy rates” and “unique configuration” options such as high availability (HA) shared quarantine and transparent mode. TH opted for Fortinet’s (.
Board has not blocked e-mails
wen Sound Sun Times
These little pieces of code are designed to get in behind an organizations protection and deliberately harm that organizations network. In any organization SPAM makes up approximately 97% of every e-mail received. Regretfully some who e-mail the board do not realize that they have acquired issues with their own email. In one case we actually worked with an e-mailer to correct their problem so we could receive their e-mails. This is far more than most organizations or companies would ever bother to do.
USA.NET Unveils Enhanced Commercial Messaging Service 2.0
PR Newswire (press release)
0 a lower cost webmail alternative to other business email solutions such as Microsoft Exchange GroupWise and Lotus Notes offerings. 0 is a feature rich hosted messaging solution bundled with the best-in-class anti-virus and spam protection as well as mobility in one simple hosted package that includes the same attributes as other hosted email solutions on the market at a notably lower price. It’s a rock solid solution that has served hundreds of thousands of customers since it’s inception in 1996″ said Doug Howard President of USA. NET and Chief Strategy fficer at Perimeter. 0 can be branded to enforce the consistency with your company’s look and feel offering the perfect way to build customer and employee loyalty through brand reinforcement.
Crap Detection 101
San Francisco Chronicle
Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part – the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point it’s up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo disinfo spam scams urban legends and hoaxes. “Crap detection” as Hemingway called it half a century ago is more important than ever before now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: “spamming. Unless a great many people learn the basics of online crap detection and begin applying their critical faculties en masse and very soon I fear for the future of the Internet as a useful source of credible news medical advice financial information educational resources scholarly and scientific research. Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless.
rascom Telecom Blocks Spam With Fortinet
SYS-CN Media (press release)
It was therefore critical for us to implement anenterprise-class security solution to maintain efficient businesscommunications” said Mina Samir IT security manager at TH. “Since wemoved to FortiMail our management and employees have appreciated the hugedecrease in the quantity of spam emails they receive. From an ITperspective FortiMail is definitely an enterprise-class email securitysolution which provides us with a superior level of protectionreliability management and reporting. TH deployed a cluster of FortiMail-2000A email security systems to filterthe entire inbound email traffic going through TH’s corporate servers withminimal downtime. TH also subscribed to the FortiGuard® Antispam andAntivirus Services powered by Fortinet’s 24×7 Global Threat Research Teamto get automatic and continuous signature updates and ensure its FortiMailplatforms are kept up to date to help protect against the latest spamviruses and spyware. In addition TH uses FortiMail’s detailed logging and customized reportingfunctionalities to get granular information on all malicious emailsreceived blocked and quarantined. This information is very useful to TH’sIT department which runs daily reports to get antivirus and anti-spamevent logging for analyzing the caught spam and learning about thetechnique they use.
Google Warns f Social Profile Spam
InformationWeek
“The social web is growing incredibly quickly and spammers look at every kind of user content on the Web as an opportunity for traffic” Morrison says. InformationWeek and DarkReading. com have published a report on data-centric protection.