Blog

Facebook is coming under scrutiny (again!), this time about their email scanning policies. Most of you are probably in the email security industry and are well aware that any email security solution will scan a message to divert or block spam, phishing, etc. However, Facebook is now taking it a step further and actually blockingRead more

As discussed in an earlier post, the battle against spam is an ongoing one and requires you to do your due diligence when selecting an email security solution to protect one of your business’ most important assets: email. When making a purchasing decision, it is easy to get caught up with statistics, and in emailRead more

Have you seen how some email security vendors seem to focus almost exclusively on their catch-rate and false-positive rates? ‘Junk Giant announces reaching 99.5680% catch-rate.’ ‘Piranha Systems reaches 0.3507% false-positive at its customer base.’ Okay. So everyone in the industry does 99%+ catch-rate and less than 0.5% false positives, we do it, they do it.Read more

Virtualization. Virtual Machine. Virtual Appliance. We keep on hearing these words over and over: they’ve been a recurring topic for a few years now. And it’s growing to the point where the Microsoft vs. Google fight now has a new contender: Microsoft vs. VMware(1). So, what’s all the buzz about? Lets take a typical SMBRead more

So you think spam volumes have gone down, right? Wrong! Have a look at this video which captures the stats quite well!. JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo. 90 TRILLION email sent in 2009 247 BILLION email sent daily 1.4 BILLION email users WORLDWIDE 81%: the percentage of emails thatRead more