Cameron Sturdevant

The first e-mail technology conference, held in San Francisco last month, aimed to explore such issues as using e-mail as a marketing channel and as a productivity platform, but it ended up bogged down talking about spam. Its understandable that, like the Inbox event before it, the conference had a hard time getting beyond the […]

Center stage at the first (and probably last) E-mail Technology Conference in San Francisco was the issue of trust between message senders and receivers. Several facets of this thorny spam-related issue shared the spotlight. Authenticating sender identity is edging closer to commercial viability. Emerging user authentication standards, including the independent Sender Policy Framework, Yahoo Inc.s […]

Proper planning goes a long way toward smoothing the voice-over-Internet Protocol path, but your company should count on sizable equipment, network architecture and cultural changes when making the move to a voice-over-IP telephone system. Step 1: Upgrade the Network One of the biggest challenges to implementing an effective voice-over-IP telephony system is remediating the data […]

Increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks are chipping away at the reliability of e-mail and Web-based applications as a trusted form of communication for business transactions. And the Anti-Phishing Working Groups latest report doesnt hold much comfort. The APWGs latest monthly report, issued last week, indicates that the Citibank brand was again the No. 1 target for […]

On June 15, the Federal Trade Commission told Congress that a national Do Not E-mail list is not feasible at this time. In deciding that a secure Do Not E-mail list is not possible, the regulators at the FTC made the right choice. A list of valid e-mail addresses would be a veritable spam bonanza, […]

Digiportal Software Inc.s ChoiceMail Enterprise 2.5 anti-spam software is one too many steps ahead of the effort to block junk e-mail using sender identity. Click here to read the full review of ChoiceMail Enterprise 2.5. 2 Digiportal Software Inc.s ChoiceMail Enterprise 2.5 anti-spam software is one too many steps ahead of the effort to block […]

Qurb 2.1, the latest edition of Qurbs namesake anti-spam system, integrates directly with Microsofts Outlook and Outlook Express. This integration makes the product a decent second line of defense for corporate users who dont get a lot of mail from new people. eWEEK Labs looked at the first release of Qurb a year ago, which […]

The first Inbox conference, held earlier this month in San Jose, Calif., was supposed to be about “everything e-mail” but was instead dominated by everything spam. A highlight of the show, which was attended by about 200 e-mail vendors, experts and enterprise e-mail administrators, was the pending submission of Microsoft Corp.s Caller ID technology, the […]

eWEEK Labs last year worked with WiscNet—a nonprofit, membership-based association of education, research and public service organizations—to evaluate anti-spam systems that could protect WiscNets tens of thousands of user e-mail addresses and provide the flexibility to accommodate all types of members. After spending months on the project, eWEEK and WiscNet whittled 30 contenders down to […]

Oculan Corp.s flagship Oculan 100 is a small but capable network management and security package that can streamline operations in small and midsize enterprises. Click here to read the full review of Oculan 100. 2 Oculan Corp.s flagship Oculan 100 is a small but capable network management and security package that can streamline operations in […]

NetIQ Corp.s Security Administration Suite 5.0 capably manages user privileges in Windows environments. Click here to read the full review of Security Administration Suite 5.0. 2 NetIQ Corp.s Security Administration Suite 5.0 capably manages user privileges in Windows environments. The suite combines three products: NetIQs GPA (Group Policy Administrator), DRA (Directory and Resource Administrator) and […]

It seems that everything old is new again, at least in the network monitoring world. Network Associates Technology announced April 23 that it is spinning off its Sniffer business unit, a move expected to be completed next quarter. Network Associates will become McAfee Inc. when the sale of the Sniffer unit, and the Sniffer product […]