University installs new software to handle rising spam
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Thanks to a rising student population and the threat of more spam emails increasing every day, a national university was forced to beef up its network security.
Washington State University (WSU) manages more than 20 email domains that serve approximately 30,000 email users, TMCnet.com reports. With a recent increase in students, the school's email traffic and spam volumes were getting too large to handle.
In order to maintain email security, the university's IT staff was forced to intervene on numerous occasions.
"We required a bulletproof solution that could scale easily to handle our increasing email volume and that automatically adapts to constantly changing email threats," said Tom Ambrosi, senior director of networks and chief information security officer for WSU.
Despite the shutdown of McColo last month, spam appears to be on the rise again just in time for the holiday season. In fact, spam has almost doubled in the short time since McColo was taken offline, TGDaily.com reports.
"The Asprox and Rustock botnets are back with a vengeance after having found new command and control," MessageLabs' Matt Sergeant told the website.
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