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Quality Counts When Securing E-mail
Why "good" is not good enough

By Gideon Mantel

Over the past 20 years, spam has evolved from a trickle of 'unsolicited bulk e-mail' to a barrage of sophisticated and malicious threats.

Anti-spam efficiency is becoming a major influencing factor for both security vendors and IT decision makers. Why? Because spam is highly visible to end users, while most other security threats are almost impossible for end users to detect.

Yet too many organizations 'make do' with mediocre e-mail filtering and declining detection rates, assuming that the cost is nothing more than deleting a few extra messages each day.

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