Cameron Sturdevant

Microsoft Corp.s systems management server has never been a technical leader in the server and desktop software deployment, inventory tracking and remote trouble-shooting categories. However, eWEEK Labs tests of the new SMS 2003, which is being released to manufacturing this week and will be generally available shortly, lead us to recommend that IT managers take […]

Responding to concerns about privacy, state and national legislators are moving to restrict your companys access to information about its customers. At the same time, products are coming onto the market that do much of what the laws are intended to do in guarding privacy. Its a moment of opportunity for IT managers with vision […]

Californias anti-spam law, which enables residents, the state attorney general and ISPs to seek civil damages from spammers, will undoubtedly spark lawsuits and perhaps even legal victories. However, although California Senate Bill 186: Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers will likely catch some culprits, legislators will be outwitted by spammers who are motivated by the […]

After reviewing RFP responses from more than 30 anti-spam vendors, eWEEK Labs and service provider WiscNet invited six companies to show what they could do to help WiscNet solve its spam problem. The results, following, are based on WiscNets installation and initial use of each product in a variety of test environments that sought to […]

Just dump it. its OK. After spending three days living and breathing anti-spam product demonstrations and implementations in Madison, Wis., Ive come to that conclusion. Dumping spam is not only OK to do; its the only thing to do. Having spent a significant amount of time with some of the top vendors in the crowded […]

The Postini Perimeter Manager anti-spam service requires that all MX (Mail Exchange) records for an organizations domain be directed to Postinis operations center. Thus, as with FrontBridges TrueProtect, all mail is filtered before getting to an organizations e-mail servers and requires no hardware or software purchase. Unlike TrueProtect, Postini Perimeter Manager does allow administrators to […]

Anti-spam service providers block spam before it even gets to an organizations mail servers, with no software or hardware to install or maintain. However, the service options are more expensive than the software and hardware options. FrontBridge Technologies has a simple guiding principle when it comes to fighting spam: Spam has no place in the […]

McAfee Security, a network associates inc. company, has taken the open-source SpamAssassin and integrated it into its SpamKiller Anti-Spam gateway appliance. (The company acquired the famed open-source product in May 2002.) SpamAssassin has had a long run as an open- source product and is still freely available at www.spamassassin.org. As such, SpamAssassin is a favorite […]

Both of the hardware-based appliances we evaluated included a lot more than just anti-spam capabilities because both come from companies with security roots that have grown into the anti-spam space. IronMail grew out of CipherTrusts work in providing firewall and intrusion detection for e-mail systems. The IronMail appliance is designed to withstand Internet-based attacks and […]

Brightmail Anti-Spam Enterprise Edition Version 5.0 is a high-profile spam blocker that uses a wide range of effective spam identification technologies, including proprietary blacklists, signatures and URL identification technology. Like nearly all the vendors that answered our request for proposal, Brightmail claims to be 95 to 96 percent effective at blocking spam, and our experience […]

Activestates PureMessage 4.0 takes a highly configurable approach to blocking spam. The optional Domain Administration tool would allow WiscNet much of the end-user and domain administration flexibility it craves, but the additional price would also include up to 1 hour per week of administration to tune the filter rules. Based on our work with WiscNet, […]

Foundstone Inc.s namesake Foundstone Enterprise 3.0.1 software packs enough punch for even the largest distributed networks, adding threat correlation to Windows host assessments that make shorter work of IT managers vulnerability assessment chores. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Foundstone Enterprise 3.0.1 Using Foundstones updated distributed vulnerability assessment tool, IT managers can now correlate new threats and use customized […]