White Papers

Technical documents, articles and guides on Spam and Email Security

Glossary of Spam Terms
The Jargon of the Spam Industry

Definitions and glossary of terms used in the Spam industry.  A must have reference for anyone involved!






Image Spam
An Increasing Threat

Never before has it been so easy to communicate with the majority of the world’s population almost instantaneously. For businesses and enterprises of all sizes, email has become the number one form of communication.

However, with the good usually comes the bad and with email comes spam. As Vircom’s SpamBuster team has observed, spam accounts for over 80% of all email traffic and this number continues to grow. One of the key factors for this dramatic increase is image-based spam, an increasingly common and sophisticated nuisance accounting for more than 25% of all spam.>

More Than Just Email Filtering
What You Must Know Before Purchasing Your Email Security Solution

Email security is more than just filtering spam. The evolving sophistication and rapid proliferation of email-borne threats advance too quickly to be countered with conventional methods. With more than 200 billion email messages exchanged daily1, email is mission critical for businesses worldwide. However, as email communications continue to rise, networks become more vulnerable to malicious attacks and other threats.

As a result, organizations must deploy email security solutions that are complete and include several complementary features to be effective and manageable. This white paper will focus on the features of an effective email security system and how Vircom’s comprehensive modus™ technology addresses these requirements.

Online Pharmaceuticals “Spam Pill-Pushers”

This study examines some of the latest tricks that spammers use to elude spam filters. We investigate several of the most frequently occurring types of online pharmaceutical spam messages today and look at how they have evolved, as well as the methods that spammers use to stay one step ahead of the spam filter.





Safeguarding Your Email Infrastructure
Inside modus™ Technology

Most organizations consider their e-mail security solution to be the center point of control over all aspects of their inbound, outbound, and internal acceptable communication policies. Spam threats make up 80% of email traffic1. As such, it is imperative that email security solutions continually update their spam definitions and must be flexible, scalable and easily managed. Successful solution providers are proactive problem solvers, ensuring that spam and other email borne threats never adversely affect their clients.

Sophisticated techniques used by spammers make it challenging for email security solutions to keep pace.

Few vendors have the expertise to understand the principle mechanics of spam. Vircom’s modus™ technology addresses this issue by providing a highly performing solution that analyzes all inbound and outbound email traffic to counteract spam, phishing, viruses, spyware, out-of-policy communications and other email threats. Vircom’s products ensure that email communications are never compromised.

Botnets, fast flux and phishing attempts are examples of email-borne threats, and effective anti-spam technology must be able to respond to up-to-the-minute attacks, and incorporate deterministic and adaptive capabilities.

The following white paper describes Vircom’s modus™ technology and why its multi-layered architecture makes it a leading turnkey solution.

Understanding the Costs of Email Security

The three main cost factors associated with email filtering solutions are: solution costs, operating costs and productivity losses. This paper aims to help the reader make an informed decision when purchasing an email filtering solution by analyzing the various features and properties that contribute to the total cost of ownership.





 
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