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    Review: CipherTrust IronMail

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    Cameron Sturdevant
    Published September 29, 2003
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      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 is a good choice for organizations that are frequent targets of hack attempts.

      In terms of its anti-spam capabilities, IronMail was among the most inflexible products we evaluated when it came to setting up different rules for different e-mail domains. This was a problem for WiscNet.

      CipherTrust representatives indicated that a subsequent release of the product would allow administrators to apply rules by domain, but they could not provide a release date. While this lack of flexibility was a big weakness in WiscNets eyes, eWEEK Labs thinks that many corporations wont miss the per-domain administration. When it comes to spam, most corporations likely feel the same as Robin Jarlsberg, technology director for the Cambridge, Wis., school district: “When it comes to spam, I just want it to be gone,” Jarlsberg said. “I dont want end users digging around in a quarantine box.”

      Mail administrators with a sweeping mandate to rid their organization of spam—and that should be a fair number—will likely be able to use IronMail as it stands today.

      Aside from the usual anti-spam techniques that enabled IronMail to examine WiscNets test traffic for spam characteristics—such as header and content analysis, including heuristics—IronMail also employs a statistical look-up service. Using information gathered from voluntary customer participation, e-mail messages are counted to see how often a particular e-mail has been seen by CipherTrusts clients.

      In eWEEK Labs experience, IronMails statistical look-up service might prove to be more bluster than blockade because sophisticated spammers are rapidly figuring out how to modify messages to make them statistically different from one to the next. Even so, we advise IT managers to consider products as a whole. For example, IronMail uses myriad spam-stopping techniques, of which statistical look-up is just one that may add 3 or 4 percentage points of accuracy to the spam score IronMail assigns to incoming messages.

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      Senior Analyst Cameron Sturdevant can be reached at cameron_sturdevant@ ziffdavis.com.

      Cameron Sturdevant
      Cameron Sturdevant
      Cameron Sturdevant is the executive editor of Enterprise Networking Planet. Prior to ENP, Cameron was technical analyst at PCWeek Labs, starting in 1997. Cameron finished up as the eWEEK Labs Technical Director in 2012. Before his extensive labs tenure Cameron paid his IT dues working in technical support and sales engineering at a software publishing firm . Cameron also spent two years with a database development firm, integrating applications with mainframe legacy programs. Cameron's areas of expertise include virtual and physical IT infrastructure, cloud computing, enterprise networking and mobility. In addition to reviews, Cameron has covered monolithic enterprise management systems throughout their lifecycles, providing the eWEEK reader with all-important history and context. Cameron takes special care in cultivating his IT manager contacts, to ensure that his analysis is grounded in real-world concern. Follow Cameron on Twitter at csturdevant, or reach him by email at cameron.sturdevant@quinstreet.com.

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