•Maximizing E-mail Security ROI - Part IV – The Digital Monsters under Your Bed: E-Mail Intruders
by CipherTrust This is the last of a five-part series on Maximizing Email Security ROI. Remember your kid fears? As soon as the lights went out, the monsters under your bed began plotting ways to get you. Somehow, though, you always managed to outsmart them and make it through the night. Then one night you grew up, and the monsters went away for good. Well, they're back. And they've unionized.International rings of hackers, many backed by funds from organized crime groups, are the new...
•Maximizing Email Security ROI: Stop Spam and Save!
by CipherTrustThis is the first of a five-part series on Maximizing Email Security ROI In the realm of email security threats, the costs of spam are relatively easy to recognize. Although most organizations rarely, if ever, take the time to calculate their spam costs, they can easily account for the losses caused by spam with regards to employee productivity, consumption of IT resources and help desk costs. Harder to measure are the less obvious, and potentially catastrophic, costs incurred...
•Maximizing Email Security ROI: Part II - Stop Viruses Before They Stop You
by CipherTrustThis is the second of a five-part series on Maximizing Email Security ROI. Across the spectrum of information security risks, most casual users understand the dangers posed by viruses and worms. Network administrators have even more reason to fear a virus attack, as a successful assault can cripple corporate networks for days. The lasting damage, however, is much more difficult to determine with precision, as the residual financial impact of a virus infection extends long after...
•How HIPAA Security Policies Affect Corporate E-mail Systems
by CipherTrustAlthough considered by many to be the sole concern of health care providers, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) affects nearly all companies that regularly transmit or store employee health insurance information. HIPAA was signed into law in 1996 and it's original purpose was to protect employee health and insurance information when workers changed or lost their jobs. As use of the internet became more widespread in the mid-1990s, HIPAA requirements...
•Maximizing Email Security ROI: Part III - No More Mr. Nice Guy: Enforcing E-Mail Policy
by CipherTrustThis is the third of a five-part series on Maximizing E-mail Security ROI.E-mail is an easy, cheap and readily available form of communication. It’s a great tool for businesses, but without proper safeguards in place to regulate the information transmitted it can also be a potential threat. An effective e-mail policy should be all-encompassing, helping organizations comply with federal regulations, protect intellectual property and prevent offensive materials from being...
•E-mail Security Governance: E-mail Encryption and Authentication as a Business Enabler
by CipherTrust How to Easily Secure Your E-mail System and Comply with HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and GLBA RegulationsWhile recent government regulations vary in scope and purpose, the need to protect and ensure the integrity of information is universal. Much of the information germane to business today is assimilated and communicated over messaging platforms such as e-mail. As a result, the need for a comprehensive approach to the secure delivery of e-mail affects almost all organizations,...
•Detecting and Eliminating Computer Viruses at the Gateway
by CipherTrustTraditional anti-virus software only stops known computer viruses – stopping undefined computer viruses requires a different approach.In the past, network administrators scrambled to apply new virus signatures whenever new computer viruses were discovered. While these signatures will stop a known threat, it takes time for anti-virus vendors to develop them. Unfortunately, the newest and most damaging viruses are able to spread so quickly that the damage is done before a...
•Your Reputation Precedes You
by CipherTrust A Look at the Past, Present and Future of Email Reputation Systems “Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”--Spoken by Cassio, in Shakespeare’s Othello (circa 1602)Though written over four centuries ago, the sentiment behind these words still holds true – you’re nothing without your reputation. Every day, different reputation systems dictate who you are to those who don’t know you....
•Does Your Email Reputation System Have a Bad Rep?
Does Your Email Reputation System Have a Bad Rep? by CipherTrustThe recent spike in the volume of spam traveling across the Internet, combined with the dangers of phishing and virus attacks that frequently accompany these messages, has forced enterprises to reconsider how they determine which messages will be allowed into their network. The latest advances in anti-spam technology have been enabled in part by the use of reputation services which determine the “good” and “bad” senders. There...
•3 Criteria for Controlling Enterprise Spam
by CipherTrustOr: T*ake Y O U R email ba & ack + From the Sp@mmers! 0400constrictor bubble snake informational If you have a business, then you have a spam problem. The efficiencies of communicating through e-mail not only benefit organizations like yours; they also benefit the spammers who profit off of sending pernicious e-mails to millions of people every day. In fact, spam is so cost-effective that it costs less than $0.0004 to send a single spam. That’s 25 emails for just one penny! The...
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