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Spam Blocking:
Recent analyst estimates indicate that over 60 percent of the world’s email is unsolicited email, or “spam.” Spam is no longer just a simple annoyance. Spam has now become a significant security issue and a massive drain on financial resources. In fact, this deluge of spam costs corporations an estimated $20 billion each year in lost productivity. Today there are a large number of solutions designed to help eliminate the spam problem.
Spam Blocking Techniques, the bottom line:
Spam is a problem that is continuing to grow from day to day, costing corporations billions of dollars in lost productivity. Fortunately though, there are different spam blocking techniques to help counter the various types of spam. Because spammers are always trying to bypass anti-spam techniques by changing the methods they use to send spam, it’s best for corporations to protect themselves with a spam blocking solution that uses more than one spam blocking technique.
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Barracuda Spam Firewall
The Barracuda Spam Firewall delivers powerful, easy to use, and affordable enterprise-class spam and virus protection.
Anti-Spoofing White Paper
With the advent of phishing schemes and other unsavory techniques for obtaining information and account access from unsuspecting victims, the importance of solutions that prevent local email addresses from being impersonated has grown significantly.
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Trends in Spam
In protecting email infrastructure against spam, there are three trends in particular that email administrators should be aware of:
- Increased volume of spam on the Internet
- The changing nature of reputation checks
- Image spam and its effect on email infrastructure
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Top Ten Things About Spam Firewalls
Using a spam firewall to block spam is the most advantageous and efficient way for an organization to keep unsolicited email from reaching the network, server, and end user inboxes. Spam firewalls offload spam
filtering from the email server, increase server bandwidth and free up network resources. Spam firewall appliances typically come pre-configured, are setup in minutes, and can be maintained with little effort.
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