So are the worlds of HTTP and SMTP filtering so far apart that businesses will always have to deal with two sets of vendors to control the activities of their employees communicating with the outside world?
Sybari's technology is designed to fight viruses, worms and spam, with such products as Antigen file-filtering. Mike Nash, vice president of Microsoft's Security Business and Technology Unit, said in a statement on Tuesday: "Through this...
An appliance can check all content coming in via the main email gateway for spam and viruses. Content filtering is a good example; you can choose between appliances, licensed software or outsourced solutions.
Spam has risen to such heights partly because of a fundamental weakness in the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP, the messaging protocol that has defined email for more than two decades. Using SMTP, email recipients have no way of determining...
Filtering malware and unwanted content within email has become a highly specialised, multi-faceted, round the clock task and it is simply no longer possible to keep up with the adaptive nature of this problem at the customer end - with an...
In response, enterprises should expand their security capabilities at the SMTP gateway," she said. Better spam-filtering by internet service providers and improved email authentication are also essential to limit email's ability to be used as a...