Stories about: IronPort Systems

The war on spam continues on a number of fronts. In addition to improving spam-detection and spam-blocking technologies, vendors are pursuing authentication and trademark protection of domain names to fight spam.

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.

E-mail is the victim of its own backward economics. Anyone can send a message to anyone else postage due; the sender pays almost nothing, while the recipient pays in time and money to download and read the message. With that kind of incentive, it's surprising that only 60 to 80 percent of e-mail traffic is unsolicited ads.

The acquisition of antispam vendor Brightmail by security and utility software vendor Symantec is being viewed by a sampling of industry analysts and competitors as a good move in the marketplace that will benefit enterprise IT users.

E-mail gateway appliance company Ironport Systems has the tough job of selling a solution that most organizations now get free of charge.

With the onslaught of vendors jumping on the spam-fighting bandwagon, choosing the right anti-spam product can be almost as tedious as wading through an in-box of junk mail. But signs are pointing to a shakeout in the anti-spam market over the next year or two that will eliminate many of today's players.

Shifting from daily nuisance to serious IT and business concern, uncontrolled spam is prompting customers to arm themselves with tools to fight back against productivity loss, potential liability, and bandwidth-clogging consequences that unsolicited commercial e-mail can bring to an enterprise.

With unwanted e-mail messages continuing to flood corporate messaging systems, vendors are stepping up efforts to thwart spam from a variety of fronts.

Attempting to take combat the insidious problem of unwanted e-mail, commonly referred to as "spam," Cloudmark Inc. on Wednesday introduced SpamNet, a Microsoft Outlook add-in tool designed to block spam from reaching users' inboxes.

IronPort Systems, a year-old start-up, today announced a new proprietary operating system that it says will revolutionize Internet messaging.