E-mail Security School Lesson 2: Threats and Mitigation Strategies

In lesson two of E-mail Security School, guest instructor Joel Snyder teaches proactive strategies for minimizing the threat of spam and viruses to enterprise networks. Building on the e-mail security essentials introduced in Lesson 1, learn how spam and viruses should be dealt with once they've made their way on to your networks, and issues in implementing end user controls and quarantines.    Webcast: E-mail security: Taming the beast, part two -- Spam and virus mitigation strategies    Technical paper: Oops! Exposing the biggest blunders for fighting spam and viruses    Quiz: Can you slay spam and viruses?    About the Instructor    Lesson 2 Discussion Forum

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Webcast: E-mail security: Taming the beast, part two -- Spam and virus mitigation strategies

Learn proactive strategies for minimizing the threat of spam and viruses to enterprise networks. This webcast is available on-demand. Participants who register with a valid e-mail address and attend all three course webcasts will receive a certificate of completion from SearchSecurity.com. In addition, through our agreement with (ISC)², all CISSPs and SSCPs who attend this webcast can earn 1 CPE credit.

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Technical paper: Oops! Exposing the biggest blunders for fighting spam and viruses

Learn about two common, yet misguided, practices for dealing with spam and viruses. Guest instructor Joel Snyder explains why these practices cause more harm than good and proposes best practices to use in their place.

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Quiz: Can you slay spam and viruses?

Assess your knowledge of spam and virus mitigation strategies based on the teachings in part two of our E-mail Security School. In order to successfully pass the quiz, you have to complete Parts I and II of this lesson.

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About the Instructor

Joel Snyder is a senior partner with Opus One, a consulting firm in Tucson, Ariz. He sent his first network e-mail in 1980, and has been designing and implementing enterprise e-mail systems ever since. He is partially to blame for the X.400 messaging standards and has been trying to atone for them ever since.

Security School Discussion Forum Round out your Security School experience by interacting with our guest instructor Joel Snyder and your peers. The Security School Discussion Forum is an online community where you can find answers, share strategies and give advice. Check out some of the latest postings: The pros and cons of dropping attachments Why isn't dropping certain attachments (pif, scr, etc.) a good practice? I think it's safe to say that most companies have no use for these files. I agree that dropping them is not the ONLY solution, but for many file types, it is a good practice. >>1 new reply The value of using multiple AV engines What is the value of using multiple antivirus engines on the SMTP or Exchange front ends? Is this a recommended practice rather than relying on a product with a single engine at the edge? >>1 new reply Encrypting Outlook/Exchange e-mail Does standard Outlook/Exchange e-mail going out over the Internet get encrypted, or do we need to do something to make that happen? Is the default S/MIME a type of encryption? >>1 new reply

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