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The Ultimate Guide to Email Security

Clearswift

Every business depends on email and the Internet. But reading the press, it's tempting to believe that the risks sometimes outweigh the benefits. Viruses, phishing, spyware, spam, trojans, worms, pornography, hate mail and the like are presented, particularly by the press, as some sort of remorseless digital plague sent down from on high to damage businesses everywhere.While it's true that the scale and scope of the threat has increased dramatically in recent times, much more heat than light has been generated by the hype. This guide takes a common sense approach to the email security challenge, aiming to avoid hyperbole by highlighting the practical, common sense steps that can be taken to beat the hackers.It provides an overview of the most common threats as well as a discussion of how a layered approach to security is the best route to effective countermeasures. It examines the product and technology choices available to business - focusing on the benefits of software, managed services and appliances and where these solutions might be used together.How your organization treats the information that flows in, out and around it has become a critical success factor of business today. Where IT departments were once obsessive about network downtime, now they have to concentrate on defending the business against the content that travel across its networks.In this paper we explore the threats that fall into the following four areas and how to understand and address them.

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