Email filters the first step in secure hosting
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Utilizing commercial email filters should be a primary course of action for firms looking to host their site securely and protect it from spam.
According to Jim Garrity, director of infrastructure with large dedicated server web host HostMySite.com, employing email filters will help to quarantine suspicious phishing emails and other messages and keep workers' inboxes clean.
MX Logic's Email Defense was described as an effective commercial email filtering tool.
Speaking to thehostingnews.com, he described commercial email filters as the first part of a two-pronged attack against spam email.
The second was to look at installing user-level email filtering, which takes an opposite approach from commercial email filters.
The latter uses sender policy frameworks to create a white list of acceptable content.
Meanwhile, mailbox filtering essentially blocks messages from all known spam addresses.
In recent developments, MX Logic has recently added message archiving to its Software-as-a-Service portfolio.
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