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Is Your Anti-Spam Defense at the Top of its Game?

Overview Spammers continue to change their spam distribution tactics in order to maximize delivery rates for their messages. As a result, educational institutions are being flooded with an increase in spam volumes, image-based spam, PDF (attachment) spam, foreign language spam, and IP spoofing.

How is your current anti-spam solution meeting these challenges? Listen to Proofpoint product manager Nithin Rao discuss the latest threats facing educational institutions today and see why top universities rely on Proofpoint to help protect their messaging infrastructures. Hear Proofpoint customer Tufts University speak about their Proofpoint implementation and answer attendee questions.

View this web seminar replay and learn:

The latest techniques used by spammers -- and how they are eroding spam filter effectiveness.
What you should expect from your anti-spam solution -- and how to measure the effectiveness of your current solutions.
How Proofpoint Dynamic Reputation can provide first line defense against spam, directory harvest attacks, denial of service attacks and other email-borne threats while delivering substantial infrastructure savings.
How you can easily and automatically enforce global-, departmental- and user-level messaging policies.
How to reduce calls to the help desk and IT department by offering "self-service" end user quarantine options for your users.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Proofpoint
Live Date	12th February 2008 00:00 GMT
Format	Webcast
Topics	Security Management, Denial of Service, Security Tools, IT Reliability, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing

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