How to evaluate the overwhelming
number of spam filtering options current on the market
The amount of spam received daily, is
reaching critical mass. When queried, organizations of all sizes admit that
email security has become their single most important challenge. The need
to secure the organization against spam, phishing and fraud attacks, as well
as email borne viruses, has become critical. However, with literally hundreds
of anti-spam solutions on the market, how does one decide which solution is
most appropriate?
The overwhelming number of spam filtering options can be effectively reduced
by a simple process of elimination:
- If your organization has a mail server, such as Exchange Server, Lotus
Domino or Novell GroupWise, you can eliminate all the Outlook plugins,
leaving you with about 1/4 the original number of options.
- You can then eliminate the keyword/bayesian
filters which depend upon a hopelessly outdated paradigm for detecting
undesirable email content.
You are now left with only about 5 server based anti-spam products, each of
which use the single most effective anti-spam technology on the market. They
are based on pattern recognition. These filters vary in pricing, sophistication
and performance.
The pattern based anti-spam solution that is the most effective, as well as
being consistently recommended by the major email server vendors, including
Microsoft, IBM/Lotus, Novell and Sun, is Extensible Messaging Platform ( EMP
5 ).
Extensible Messaging Platform
( EMP 6 ), will stop spam,
phishing attacks and email borne viruses before they reach your organization's
employees and customers.
