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Spam Filter Testing Best Practices

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Overview It is not news to any organization using e-mail that spam threatens the effectiveness of e-mail systems. Left unattended, spam clogs inboxes, compromises user efficiency, and overwhelms system components such as message stores and Message Transfer Agents (MTAs). Furthermore, spam is a conduit of all types of salacious content and fraudulent come-ons that seek to cajole users into disclosing confidential information such as credit card and Social Security numbers, bank account information, and passwords (known as phishing). Approximately 70% of most organizations' inbound SMTP traffic is spam. Therefore, it is mandatory that organizations aggressively deploy top-tier spam-blocking solutions to mitigate the risks and problems associated with spam.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	META Group	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Best Practices

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