SearchSecurity.com's E-mail Security School

Welcome to SearchSecurity.com's E-mail Security School, where you'll learn tactics for securing your e-mail systems, beginning with the essentials, moving on to spam and virus defense, and wrapping up with policy control. Each of the three lessons consists of a webcast, technical paper and quiz created by our guest instructor, Joel Snyder. Participants who register with a valid e-mail address and attend all three course webcasts will receive a certificate of completion from SearchSecurity.com.    Course Outline    Begin Lesson 1: E-mail Security Essentials    Begin Lesson 2: Spam and Virus Mitigation Strategies    Begin Lesson 3: E-mail Policy Control    About the Instructor    Security School Discussion Forum (IE only)

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E-mail Security School Course Outline

Lesson 1: E-mail Security Essentials
Learn standards-based ways to increase the security of SMTP-based e-mail as well as the architecture for identifying and defining e-mail security threats from the IP layer through SMTP, MIME and up to the content layer. After you've attended the webcast and read the technical paper, take the quiz to assess your knowledge of e-mail security essentials.

• Webcast: E-mail security: Taming the beast -- The essentials
• Technical paper: Filling SMTP gaps -- The secrets to using e-mail standards
• Quiz: Do you have a firm e-mail security foundation?

Lesson 2: Spam and Virus Mitigation Strategies
Learn proactive strategies for minimizing the threat of spam and viruses to enterprise networks. Building on the e-mail security essentials introduced in Lesson 1, Joel Snyder further explains how spam and viruses should be dealt with once they've made their way on to networks, and explains issues in implementing end user controls and quarantines. After you've attended the webcast and read the technical paper, take the quiz to assess your knowledge of spam and virus mitigation strategies

• Webcast: E-mail security: Taming the beast -- Spam and virus mitigation strategies
• Technical paper: Oops! Exposing the biggest blunders for fighting spam and viruses
• Quiz: Can you slay spam and viruses?

Lesson 3: E-mail Policy Control
Learn how to centralize e-mail security efforts and construct requirements definitions for e-mail security. Factors to consider when evaluating and selecting enterprise e-mail security products will also be addressed. After you've completed parts I and II, take the E-mail Security School final exam to assess your knowledge of e-mail security based on what you've learned here.

• Webcast: E-mail security: Taming the beast -- Policy control
• Technical paper: Rules for tools: Buying the right e-mail security product
• Final exam: Have you mastered the essentials of e-mail security?

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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