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Eroding Spam Filter Effectiveness: Bad for Business

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Overview As spammers and scammers continually introduce new and more sophisticated distribution techniques, organizations continue to see tremendous increases in spam and other email-borne threats--and the attacks are getting increasingly difficult to combat.

With the ongoing rise in email volumes and more aggressive spamming techniques, many organizations are struggling with eroding anti-spam effectiveness and no longer see the results they need from their existing email security solutions.

Listen to this web seminar replay as Proofpoint product manager Andrew Vu discusses the latest email security challenges and shows real life examples of how spam filter effectiveness impacts business.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Proofpoint
Live Date	22nd April 2008 00:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Security Standards, Security Management, Email, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Best Practices

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