XPMsoftware E-Mail Security Newsletters

XPMsoftware publishes a bi-weekly newsletter on recent and relevant topics relatedt to e-mail security and the antispam, antivirus market. Topics include anything from how to select an e-mail security solution to an analysis of the latest trends in the industry.

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April 2007	How to Prepare for and Survive an E-mail Disaster with InstantReplay™ From its humble beginnings, e-mail has evolved into a mission critical corporate communications tool. This fact hit home late last week when Blackberry customers experienced delays and service interruptions with their popular mobile e-mail devices. While it garnered most of the press, RIM wasn't the only e-mail vendor to experience problems last week. Flying under most radar screens were service issues including lengthy e-mail delays at two major hosted antispam providers. XPMsoftware has been working on a product to provide additional protection in the event of any e-mail service outage. InstantReplay™ is a PerfectMail add on product designed to ensure you don't miss a single message even if your mail server fails. <Read the article>
March 2007	A Sobering Perspective on Spam Unlike most people, my entire day is spent focused on spam. When I chat with prospects, I hear about the pain they experience trying to run a business without spam protection, or the pain caused by using a bad spam filter. New customer success stories are always a high point in my day. And, I regularly talk with long time customers who call in to offer suggestions or ask questions. When I think of the cost of spam, I think primarily of lost productivity and wasted resources, or business risks such as viruses. Or, I think of identity theft through Phishing or websites run by criminals (the kind who sell your credit card information after you place an order). My view of spam changed permanently when I read a story in the National Post about a woman who purchased pills from a 'Canadian Pharmacy'... <Read the article>
January 2007	Rise of the Virtual Machine What do you do when you have too many physical servers to fit in your server room but not enough servers to run all of your workloads? You virtualize. Server virtualization, the IT trend for 2006 and beyond, has developed momentum based on its promise of better hardware utilization, lower capital and support costs, rapid deployment of new workloads and zero down time server administration. Server virtualization also creates new options for Disaster Recovery, provides better application availability (uptime) and, for the first time, gives PC server administrators the ability to proactively plan for and manage growth. Are Virtual Appliances on your radar screen? <Read the article>
November 2006	The Evolution of Image Spam Image spam, Picture spam and even Ransom spam... These are all names used to describe a current and highly effective trend in spamming... putting the message into a picture and including it as an embedded image. Regardless of its name, Image spam is a problem because it gets past traditional antispam defenses. Do you recognize any of these images? <Read the article>
October 26, 2006	Its 6pm, Time for Your Daily Dose of Spam! Anyone who has received telemarketing calls at dinner time knows just how annoying these intrusions can be. One solution is to ask the caller to add your number to the call center's permanent do not call list. But, don't be surprised if telemarketer feigns ignorance of laws requiring them honor such requests. Spammers are not troubled by such legal impediments. It is simply too easy for a spammer to acquire everything needed to promote their schemes (scams?) outside of the recipients' legal jurisdiction. Even if the sender is in the same jurisdiction, law enforcement is so under-funded and under-resourced that the successful prosecution of a spammer is still a newsworthy event. <Read the article>
May 14, 2006	Why Is There Spam? Years ago, Bill Cosby released a hilarious album entitled Why is There Air? Part of the humor in the album is that the title question was never answered. Unfortunately, there is nothing funny about Spam. We have all experienced the frustration of having to clear out dozens (or perhaps hundreds) of unwanted e-mail messages each morning. Our research at XPMsoftware shows that unwanted and malicious e-mail makes up more than 75% of all e-mail activity, and the majority of unwanted e-mails are marketing oriented. Marketing is a numbers game... advertisers are interested in getting their message out to as many people as possible. <Read the article>
March 30, 2006	The Trouble With E-Mail Quarantines Conventional wisdom in the antispam market says that you need e-mail quarantines to effectively deal with messages that may be wanted. In reality, quarantines often cause more problems than they solve. In this article, we explore the Trouble with Quarantines and look at PerfectMail's unique solution to the problem. <Read the article>
March 15, 2006	Understanding E-Mail Threats Did you know that 80+% of all e-mail traffic is unwanted or malicious? This article takes you through the different kinds of threats that your mail server is exposed to on a daily basis. Once you understand these threats, and why spammers do what they do, you will be in a better position to protect yourself from their attacks. <Read the article>
February 1, 2006	Evaluating E-Mail Security Products How to evaluate e-mail security products so that you achieve the highest return on your antispam and antivirus investment. <Read the article>