Stories about: Tumbleweed Communications

Remember the old M&M analogy - security is like an M&M candy, hard shell on the outside, soft on the inside. In other words, put up firewalls, built a strong perimeter and you're good to go. Of course, nobody believes that M&M-type security is sufficient in today's world of insider threats, data leakage, mobile workers, thumb drives and sophisticated malware. So, what's the new metaphor? We asked around and came up with a number of interesting and useful ways to think about enterprise security.

E-mail security continues to be a hot-button issue for IT administrators, who now find more moving parts in mail security solutions than they did just a couple of short years ago. Fighting viruses and spam were the original spurs for creating e-mail security appliances, and anti-spam is still the most important component of mail security. But the solutions have evolved to meet a host of additional requirements. These include securing connections between users, both internal and external; preventing loss of corporate data; stopping new types of threats such as phishing, spyware, and other types of malware; and blocking DoS and other network attacks as well as some application-layer attacks on mail servers.

Tumbleweed Communications on Tuesday announced new software for companies wanting to encrypt their e-mail that stays inside the organization.

The popularity of wireless LANs is increasing as is the use of wireless Internet access points, so the need for secure and encrypted e-mail exchanges is becoming more critical. While there are many implementations of e-mail encryption, one of the most popular e-mail servers is Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server which has built-in encryption capabilities.

The IT project was a success. It was on time and on budget, and it did what it was supposed to. The only problem: The customer wasn't happy.

With so many types of malware stalking the Internet, companies pile on the e-mail defences. By Sue Hildreth and Michael Crawford

Microsoft Wednesday bolstered both its managed services and messaging security investments with plans to acquire FrontBridge Technologies, a company that provides managed services for e-mail security, compliance and availability, executives from both companies said.

The volume of e-mail made up of spam has stabilized, according to figures from Symantec's Brightmail unit.

Products and services from e-mail security company IronPort Systems will support Microsoft's Sender ID e-mail authentication standard, the company said on Thursday.