Mirapoint Advises on Effective Spam Blocking at Secure IT Conference.Tim Chiu Discusses Techniques for Fighting Unwanted and Unauthorized Email in Today's Quickly Evolving Spam Environment SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Mirapoint, the secure messaging expert, today announced that Tim Chiu, director of Worldwide Application Engineering, will be speaking on "Evolving Anti-Spam Mechanisms: Is Your Spam Blocker See spam filter. as Good Today as it Was a Year Ago?" at the Secure IT Conference to be held March 27-29, 2007 in Sacramento, Calif. Spam continues with unabated force and volume, threatening to undermine the productivity and flexibility email brings to higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. and enterprise communications. In fact, the threat of spam and other email viruses are a top concern for IT managers who struggle to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated attacks on their messaging systems. Ineffective spam blocking not only creates vulnerabilities within the email infrastructure but also consumes network and IT resources. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG MAAWG Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group ), in cooperation with some of the world's largest Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , approximately 80 percent of Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. today is the result of abusive email. "An effective anti-spam campaign should involve multiple layers of the network and reflect a keen understanding of the evolving spam environment," said Tim Chiu, director, Worldwide Application Engineering, Mirapoint. "With today's technologies used to their fullest capability, educational institutions can achieve successful spam blocking at the network edge, freeing critical storage capacity and unencumbering IT. For example, with the Mirapoint RazorGate[R], universities can block approximately 98 percent of spam with zero false positives." During his presentation, Chiu will examine the historical accuracy of several anti-spam mechanisms, highlight key milestones in spam evolution and discuss effective spam blocking at different layers in the network. Information regarding the tutorial is included below. [TABLE OMITTED] About Secure IT Conference Presented by the California State University System California State University System, coordinating agency established in 1960 by the merger of individual California state colleges, now consisting of 23 campuses. , the California Community Colleges and the Foundation for California Community Colleges, the Secure IT Conference will provide information security managers and professionals with the most up-to-date information, tools, trends, legislation, products, services and strategies for addressing information and network security issues. More information is available at the conference Web site: www.secureitconf.com. About Mirapoint Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , with offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com. |
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