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Webinar held on Wednesday, October 10, 2007. One hour.

With new spam and virus formats constantly being created, anti-spam and anti-virus engines are forced to contend with PDF, Excel, and ZIP files as well as whatever new formats spammers will invent next. Rather than constantly trying to predict and analyze the next big wave of undesired email, vendors are starting to implement reputation services, which identify good and bad senders. These services offer an additional outer layer of defense that can filter out massive amounts of malicious traffic at the network perimeter.

But how useful are these services for enterprise security and overall traffic management? What benefits can reputation services offer, and what are the drawbacks? How relevant is mail IP reputation to fighting blended threats that use both email and the Web?

In this Ferris Research webinar, Amir Lev, CTO of Commtouch, a leading provider of email security technology, and Ferris Analyst Richi Jennings explain and review the latest reputation technologies: RBLs, email accreditation, reputation aggregators, domain vs. URL reputation, and dynamic reputation filtering. Amir explains how reputation services can effectively fight even the most sophisticated spammer and phishing tricks and how this new tool can be integrated as an additional layer of email and Web security.

The webinar also introduces Commtouch’s GlobalView Reputation Service and highlights its benefits for both mail and Web security. The webinar includes time for Q&A, giving participants the opportunity to ask their own questions.

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Important Questions Addressed by This Webinar Include:

• What types of problems can be solved by reputation services?
• What kinds of reputation services are available?
• What are the pros and cons of each in terms of ease of integration, blocking rates, and classification errors?
• Should more than one service be used?
• How do reputation services complement other security solutions?
• How real-time do the services need to be?
• How useful are they for enterprise security and overall traffic management?

Speakers

• Richi Jennings, Analyst, Ferris Research. The practice leader for spam and boundary services, Richi has been involved with messaging and collaboration technologies since 1985. His main areas of focus are Linux, security, spam, viruses and other malware, large-scale enterprise deployments, TCO, and wireless.
• Amir Lev, CTO and co-founder, Commtouch. Amir has more than 15 years of email security R&D experience and has led Commtouch to its position as a leading provider of messaging security solutions, protecting millions of mailboxes worldwide.

Who Is This Webinar Suitable For?

This webinar is suitable for messaging managers and vendor product management staff.