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will internet die?
Is there an chance of Internet facing an death, how would be if internet is no
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A blog challenging DMOZ
I keep reading blogs and here is a blog which we are discussing at highrankings.com
and other places.
US Will Keep Control Of Internet
An agreement was reached at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis,
Tunisia late Tuesday night whereby the United States, through quasi-independent
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), will remain in control
of the Internet’s root servers and addressing system.
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11.21.05
Anti Spam At The Enterprise Level
 By Richard Keir
Every one of us knows how spam impacts us. Every day we either get a ton of spam
- or if we're fairly well protected by spam filters - only a few pieces.
Like a large number of people, I don't use any spam filters. Ah. You think I'm
insane. But wait. My problem is that I get a lot of email from marketing types
which I want to receive. And the spam filtering software is not very sensitive
to my needs. Even white-listing doesn't always work. So, I prefer to get all that
spam and just delete it.
Now this solution can work for me despite the time it takes to delete my daily
overdose of spam. However, at the enterprise level, it's a whole different story.
If you have a relatively large internal network with even a modest number of email
users, you're looking at a major problem. And the more users you have, the worse
the problem is.
Sure, you can put up software on the mail server. Works, kind of. But pretty soon
you may find you need to upgrade the mail server. And that's after you already
put it on a stand-alone machine.
Rather than continuing to buy ever more expensive software to run on a machine
that keeps needing to be upgraded, you might want to think about a dedicated anti
spam appliance.
To give you some idea of what's possible let's take a look at Barracuda Networks
dedicated anti spam appliance. All you need to do is put this baby in front of
your mail server. I say baby, advisedly because this one will learn by doing and
by training provided by your users.
Dean Drako, CEO of Barracuda Networks said, "Bayesian filtering is still one of
the most accurate defenses against spam. The new plug-ins allow users to directly
train the Bayesian filter, making the Barracuda Spam Firewall even more accurate
based on the users individual email preferences. Viruses and other threats can
infect the network quickly if they are not stopped at the network edge. With Intent
Analysis our customers have an advantage over these threats because the Barracuda
Spam Firewall is able to block them real time. Consequently we have consistently
been a first responder when some of the most malicious virus attacks have hit,
saving our customers from potentially devastating damage to their networks."
This is one beautiful little machine. A Barracuda Spam Firewall can support from
1,000 to 30,000 active users. It can usually be installed in less than five minutes
and receives automatic hourly updates for new forms of spam and viruses. It has
a 10 layer defense system beyond the use of open source anti spam and anti virus
solutions: denial of service and security protection, IP block list, rate control,
virus check with archive decompression, proprietary virus check, user specified
rules, spam fingerprint check, Intent Analysis, spam rule-based scoring, and Bayesian
analysis. Plus it also does both inbound and outbound email filtering with the
inclusion of sophisticated outbound email filtering techniques (just in case you've
got a spam zombie on board or somebody's got an infected PC).
However, it isn't exactly cheap. Still, when you consider the time, bandwidth,
user frustration and potential hardware upgrade costs, the price may look a lot
more reasonable. You can check it out at http://www.barracudanetworks.com/
If you are in the market for an anti-spam appliance, the Barracuda Spam Firewall
isn't your only choice. The impact of spam on internet businesses - even those
who primarily use it for just email - is so great that a simple search for "anti
spam appliance" will find you a number of alternatives to examine. Even McAfee
is getting into the anti spam hardware game.
I'm hoping that it won't be too long before I can pick up a Bayesian multi-level
anti spam, anti virus firewall appliance for my home PC that keeps me safe and
cuts my need to delete without deep-sixing the email I want or costing me more
than I can afford. I suspect it's on the way.
Copyright 2005 Richard Keir
About the Author:
Richard Keir writes in a variety of areas involving eBusiness and the internet.
For more on spam visit http://anti-spam.werkz.org
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