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White Papers
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The Hidden Menace of Embedded Links
Recently, a new worm, commonly known as "here you have" used old mass-mailer techniques to spread rapidly across the Internet, effectively shutting down the email servers of many large companies. The inability to identify potential email threats has exposed a weakness in corporate email security strategy. Download this white paper, courtesy of Symantec Hosted Services, to learn how both SMTP and HTTP scanning at the Internet level is essential to ensure reliable security to internal networks.
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Not Just Words: Enforce Your Email and Web Acceptable Usage Policies
Unmanaged employee use of email and the web can subject any organization to costly risks including litigation, regulatory investigations and public embarrassment. Download this guide and learn how to deploy clearly written Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) for email and web usage, supported by employee training and enforced by proven technology solutions.
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The Online Shadow Economy
In the underground digital economy, thousands of criminals conduct business in excess of $100 billion. In this whitepaper you’ll learn more about this highly specialized marketplace, and how it generates powerful tools to steal victims’ identities. You’ll also see why MessageLabs unique proprietary technology helps to disrupt this activity.
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A Guide to Spam and Related Threats
Understand spam, key spam-related threats, such as botnets, phishing, spyware and more, and learn about some of the spammers’ latest, most sophisticated attack patterns, such as those demonstrated in “SpamThru” and “Warezov”. Finally, see why the MessageLabs managed security solution offers superior protection against these emerging spam and spam-related threats.
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Bandwidth Bandits
Internet bandwidth is a finite and expensive resource; protect it from spammers, criminals, hackers, time-wasters and employee misuse. Your company’s internet link is precious. Not only is it expensive and limited but it is a vital business tool. Yet our analysis shows that companies can lose around a quarter of their internet bandwidth to employee web misuse, streaming media and spam.
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Case Studies
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Arnold Worldwide Case Study
This case study highlights how, after signing on with MessageLabs Anti-Spam service, the amount of email
reaching the desks of Arnold Worldwide`s end users has dropped by more than 80%.
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Aviza Technology Case Study
This case study examines how by using MessageLabs Anti-Spam services, any potential spam is filtered before it ever reaches Aviza’s network. Employees now save valuable time by no longer having to weed through hundreds of spam messages to find their legitimate business emails.
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Briggs and Morgan Case Study
This case study outlines how, for Briggs and Morgan, the MessageLabs system has proven itself to be fast and efficient at eliminating spam, thereby allowing their technical staff to focus on other key issues by knowing that their system is stable and that MessageLabs offers full technical support on all of its products.
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Condé Nast Case Study
This case study examines how in the first six months of using MessageLabs Web Services, Condé Nast noted a dramatic reduction in the number of malware threats reported and has made significant financial and productivity savings.
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Isodyne Case Study
This case study examines how Isodyne, a leading military subcontractor, eliminated time-consuming administrative chores and increased their business productivity by using MessageLabs Complete Security and Control suite of services.
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Webcasts
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A Clear and Growing Danger: Protecting Your Network from Web-based Threats
The Internet has become one of the most indispensable business tools, but it also has become one of the most insidious. Attend this webcast and join Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research, for a discussion on protecting your organization's networks from Web-borne malware that is becoming increasingly adept at evading detection.
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Can You Afford an Email Outage? Best Practices to Ensure 100 Percent Uptime
Email has become the primary business communication medium and file transport tool, and is the key channel for processing critical business transactions, including proposal responses and order processing. Join renowned analyst, Michael Osterman, for a compelling discussion regarding email downtime issues and effective strategies to ensure your day-to-day business operations are not interrupted by imminent email failures.
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Can You Afford Email Downtime? Keep Your Business Running with Always-On Email
With email established as a key business communication medium, your company can't afford to find out the answer to that question. Unplanned email outages or even routine maintenance can cause a huge disruption to your business. View this webcast to learn about the business drivers and requirements of an on-demand email continuity solution that can handle unplanned outages and routine downtime.
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Hosted Security Services: Why it Makes Budget and Security Sense in Today’s Economy
A rise in converged web and email threats underpins a need for improved security solutions; a struggling economy underpins a need to cut costs. How does a midmarket organization like yours do both?
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Osterman Webinar - Trends in Email Archiving
Who needs to archive email messages? What are key misconceptions about messaging archiving? How do organizations meet legal discovery and HR requests?
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Product Literature
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Managed Security Service: The Best Protection in the Business
SMBs need to protect their organizations from email and web threats, and remotely managed security solutions can fill the gap between their understanding the threat and the real dangers. MessageLabs offers Managed Services Security Solutions for SMBs that use third-party scanners to detect threats, and Skeptic — a self-learning scanner that identifies and stops new or unknown threats immediately.
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MessageLabs Email Audit
The MessageLabs Free Email Audit will provide a clear picture of the impact that unwanted email content is having on your business.
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MessageLabs Messaging Security and Management Services
The MessageLabs user experience provides peace of mind, ease of use and certainty for our clients and partners. As a fully managed service, your journey with MessageLabs starts with easy setup and configuration and continues with online tools and 24/7 support, giving you complete control and ensuring that your electronic communications remain protected and secure.
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MessageLabs Web Protect
The convergence of email and web threats presents a fundamental risk to your business. MessageLabs Web Protect is a managed service with the combined power of Internet level protection for both email and web-based traffic that allows you to mitigate these converged threats.
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MessageLabs Web Protect and Web Control
Combat the increase in web-based threats, and meet the rising demands of corporate self regulation, with the only managed web security solution in the market that requires no additional hardware or software.
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News Releases
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MessageLabs Intelligence Report: June 2010
As the FIFA World Cup kicks-off, scams, Malware and spam attacks intensify. Welcome to the June edition of the MessageLabs Intelligence monthly report. This report provides the latest threat trends for June 2010 to keep you informed regarding the ongoing fight against viruses, spam, spyware and other unwelcome content.
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MessageLabs Intelligence Report: May 2010
The proportion of spam emails that include some form of URL or hyperlink has grown by one percentage point since 2009, from 91% in 2009 to 92% for 2010, to date. This report provides the latest threat trends for May 2010 to keep you informed regarding the ongoing fight against viruses, spam, spyware and other unwelcome content.
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Research Reports
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Email Security in the Cloud: More Secure, Compliant and Less Expensive
Strategies to secure enterprise email ultimately lead to the selection and deployment of a specific approach to email security: on premise, cloud-based or hybrid. These choices – along with the policy, planning, process, and organizational elements of implementation – are critical success factors in the ability to realize the business benefits of enhanced security, sustained compliance, and lower-cost operations.
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Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Security Boundary
This Research Reports discusses how companies need to evaluate broader inbound e-mail security threat protection capabilities, not just spam filtering, from vendors, and examines how best to do so.
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Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways
The e-mail security market is very mature. Targeted phishing detection, outbound email inspection, encryption and delivery form factor are the major differentiators. Spam-filtering effectiveness is at an acceptable rate for most organizations, but inbound improvements are still needed to detect targeted phishing e-mails, which are increasing problem.
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MessageLabs Email Archiving Service
This Research Report examines Email Archiving solutions and discusses the benefits of using the MessageLabs Archiving Service for off-site disk-based e-mail management and storage. E-mails and associated attachments are encrypted and sent in real-time over the Internet to a MessageLabs data center for storage and retrieval purposes.
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MessageLabs Intelligence 2007: Stormy Weather in the Battle of the Bots
This Research Report provides the latest threat trends and statistics to keep you informed regarding the ongoing fight against viruses, spam and other unwelcome content.
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Technology Briefs
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Do You Know Your Enemy?
Email, the Web and Instant Messaging are all important methods of exchanging critical business information. They also present one of the biggest threats to our security. Download this tech brief to learn the dos and don’ts of data sharing.
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MessageLabs Overview
MessageLabs is widely recognized as a market leader in the messaging and web security market. View all of our services here.
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Securing Data in the Cloud
When considering adopting cloud computing or ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS), a question most potential customers ask is "How secure will our data be in your hands?” Customers are right to ask this question and should closely examine a vendor’s security credentials.
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Uncontrolled Content
This Technology Brief discusses how MessageLabs solutions can help organizations implement Acceptable Use Practices for email and messaging in the workplace.
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Why MessageLabs Web Services?
This white paper describes how MessageLabs Web Services allow you to protect your business against the growing risk of converging email and web threats.
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Articles
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CIO Digest: Strategies and Analysis from Symantec
New security threats are being driven by creative social engineering techniques, and social networking sites are becoming common targets for online criminals. While there is no silver bullet when it comes to protecting information from cyber threats, technology innovations such as reputation-based security hold tremendous promise. In addition, data loss prevention solutions will continue to help you secure your most critical information.
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