Managing Active Directory can get complicated. Often, the native tools for managing AD are just not up to the task. The largest Active Directory installations in the world have relied on one tool to manage their day-to-day administration tasks: Hyena. Start your trial today.
Course Of The Month
Become a Premium Member and unlock a new, free course in leading technologies each month.
Solved
Know of any requirements for a good spam filter.
Posted on 2015-01-23
Hi,
I am working on a list of questions and criteria to ask a vendor and would like to know if there is a best practice list of requirements or a good spam filter. I search the web but no luck.
Thanks
I am working on a list of questions and criteria to ask a vendor and would like to know if there is a best practice list of requirements or a good spam filter. I search the web but no luck.
Thanks
[X]
Welcome to Experts Exchange
Add your voice to the tech community where 5M+ people just like you are talking about what matters.
- Help others & share knowledge
- Earn cash & points
- Learn & ask questions
3 Comments
Below question you can check :-
Operating system requirement :- Linux / Windows / Version
Hardware :- CPU , RAM , HD
Vmware supporable
How many emails it will handle Like : 20k emails you need specific hardware . And if you are expecting more than 20 k email then you need diffren hardware.
Software :- SQL
Operating system requirement :- Linux / Windows / Version
Hardware :- CPU , RAM , HD
Vmware supporable
How many emails it will handle Like : 20k emails you need specific hardware . And if you are expecting more than 20 k email then you need diffren hardware.
Software :- SQL
The only question you should ask the vendor is how much it costs. Any other questions are useless. The only way you will know if a product will work is by running it on your platform via a trial. If the vendor will not let you trial their software (and I mean a proper free trial, not a 30 day money back guarantee) then wipe them from the list.
If a product was to block all of your email, then technically it has done the job - it has blocked all of the spam. Therefore the qualifying criteria I use is how much legitimate email it blocks (quarantines during the trial).
At a bare minimum, the product should be able to do recipient validation as that will knock out most of the spam type emails and stop you getting blacklisted. The various techniques from there vary on vendor to vendor and unless you know of one that works well FOR YOU, then you will not know what to ask for.
Simon.
If a product was to block all of your email, then technically it has done the job - it has blocked all of the spam. Therefore the qualifying criteria I use is how much legitimate email it blocks (quarantines during the trial).
At a bare minimum, the product should be able to do recipient validation as that will knock out most of the spam type emails and stop you getting blacklisted. The various techniques from there vary on vendor to vendor and unless you know of one that works well FOR YOU, then you will not know what to ask for.
Simon.
I have had good experiences with Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall and Cisco Ironport. They have a tiered approach to model selection with physical, virtual, and cloud based solutions. I, personally, prefer Barracuda over Ironport due to Administrative flexibility, but Cisco Ironport rates very well in the marketplace and would not be a bad choice what so ever.
Regardless, you want to make sure that you have a good idea of the volume of email transactions that you will need the email security appliance to handle and use that as the basis for sizing. You will also need to identify what kind of fault tolerance your company requires as that can dramatically impact sizing and price. Most reputable vendors have a multi-layered approach to email scanning and utilize spam, virus, malware, image scanning (OCR), file reputation analysis, and URL analysis to name a few. Reputable vendors will give you a 30-60 day free trial of their solution/appliance to install into your infrastructure. I would definitely shy away from software based AntiSpam solutions that are meant to be installed on your Exchange Server or other MTA server solution.
Below is a an article from Infoworld back in 2008 that gives a good overview of how you should evaluate a email security appliance solution.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2650023/security/test-center-guide--mail-security-appliances.html
Regardless, you want to make sure that you have a good idea of the volume of email transactions that you will need the email security appliance to handle and use that as the basis for sizing. You will also need to identify what kind of fault tolerance your company requires as that can dramatically impact sizing and price. Most reputable vendors have a multi-layered approach to email scanning and utilize spam, virus, malware, image scanning (OCR), file reputation analysis, and URL analysis to name a few. Reputable vendors will give you a 30-60 day free trial of their solution/appliance to install into your infrastructure. I would definitely shy away from software based AntiSpam solutions that are meant to be installed on your Exchange Server or other MTA server solution.
Below is a an article from Infoworld back in 2008 that gives a good overview of how you should evaluate a email security appliance solution.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2650023/security/test-center-guide--mail-security-appliances.html
Featured Post
Question has a verified solution.
If you are experiencing a similar issue, please ask a related question
In light of the WannaCry ransomware attack that affected millions of Windows machines, you might wonder if your Mac needs protecting. Yes, it does and here is how to do it.
The recent Petya-like ransomware attack served a big blow to hundreds of banks, corporations and government offices The Acronis blog takes a closer look at this damaging worm to see what’s behind it – and offers up tips on how you can safeguard your…
The video tutorial explains the basics of the Exchange server Database Availability groups.
The components of this video include:
1. Automatic Failover
2. Failover Clustering
3. Active Manager
This video shows how to quickly and easily add an email signature for all users on Exchange 2016. The resulting signature is applied on a server level by Exchange Online.
The email signature template has been downloaded from:
www.mail-signatures…
Suggested Courses
Earn Certification
HTML5 Specialist - Certification
Free withPremium
Course of the Month6 days, 9 hours left to enroll
Earn Certification
MTA Mobility Device Fundamentals (Exam 98-368)
$59.00$53.10
636 members asked questions and received personalized solutions in the past 7 days.
Join the community of 500,000 technology professionals and ask your questions.