Wisconsin Telcos Offer New Internet Security Solutions
Sending Email By Kristin V. Johnson • 02/04/04
Madison, Wis. The recent onslaught of e-mail viruses, overabundant
spam and Internet security concerns has increased the need for
computer user protection. In light of this, TDS Telecom and
Norlight Telecommunications, both Wisconsin companies, recently
began offering new computer security technologies to their
customers.
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Reading Email According to the ePrivacy Group, spam cost U.S. corporations
$8.9 billion dollars in 2002 through lost productivity, and is
growing in volume by 18 percent every month. In addition, the
FBI/CSIs Computer Crime and Security survey reported that
organizations experienced financial losses of over $27 million
dollars in 2003 due to viruses.
Email Accounts Real Time Spam Filtering is an absolute necessity for individuals and businesses. It saves time and money by letting your employees or yourself focus on real email instead of sifting through junk mail. Our system monitors a very large portion of the Internet's email traffic to target sources of spam and tag that spam if it comes into our network. It is ready to go out of the box, but is also configurable by you if needed. Yes Yes Yes
Storing Email In response to these Web-based threats, TDS Telecom has recently
adopted California-based NetScreen Technology Inc.s network
security solutions and intrusion detection and prevention (IDP)
systems to secure its network and protect critical customer
data.
There are some things that you can do to make your online experience a little bit easier. There are some ways to keep spam from ruining your day. Spam filters are one of those things. Spam filters are an extremely successful way of managing or stopping unwanted emails, but occasionally they can work too well. While they can act very vigorously to keep your inbox from receiving spam, they can also prevent you from getting many of your wanted emails as well.
Email Software TDS previously used a multi-OS software-based firewall solution
which relied upon a third-party solution to provide high
availability (HA) capabilities. TDS replaced its previous network
security products with NetScreens hardware-based, purpose-built
integrated firewall and virtual private network (VPN) security
appliances and systems as well as NetScreens IDP products because
of upgrade complexities, performance and scalability limitations
and customer data protection concerns.
mail that is both unsolicited by the recipient and sent in substantively identical form to many recipients. Thus, mail. Some definitions of spam specifically include the aspects of email that is unsolicited and sent in bulk. Spam filter is a program that is used to detect unsolicited and unwanted email and prevent those messages from getting to a user's inbox. Like other types of filtering programs, a spam filter looks for certain criteria on which it bases judgments.
Antispam Software To provide firewall protection of TDS Telecoms critical data
resources, NetScreen-500 systems, purpose-built, hardware-based
devices that integrate firewall, VPN and traffic management
functionality, are installed in HA mode. Two NetScreen-208 and four
NetScreen-204 appliances are deployed in active/passive mode and
provide additional layers of protection. NetScreen-204 appliances
also are being used to secure a virtual messaging application
combining text messaging, fax and voicemail.
Published by IEEE Security & Privacy The most rapidly growing spam category, stock spam, is a modern twist of the classic "pump and dump" securities scam in which unscrupulous characters manipulate a security's price by using various advertising techniques to create artificial demand for it, thus inflating price. By targeting thinly traded securities on unregulated markets, stock spammers can almost guarantee a flash mob attracted by the spam will increase the per share price. spam solutions deploy to stop them.
Fight Spam Two NetScreen-IDP 500 systems, which provide up to 500 Mbps
throughput and operate in-line to accurately detect and drop
malicious traffic in real-time before it reaches its victim, are
deployed in active/passive mode at TDS headquarters.
Stoping Spam Norlight Telecommunications, a Brookfield-based company that
offers Internet and e-mail protection as well as integrated data
solutions for businesses, announced today their new Mail Guardian
service. The new service will allow customers to identify spam and
protect against their accounts against e-mail-propagated
viruses.
Block Spam Norlights Mail Guardian is designed to help customers avoid
these and other problems. With Mail Guardians spam identification
features, customers can set their own parameters for identifying
and tagging spam e-mail. In addition, Mail Guardian facilitates the
quarantine of viruses before they reach a customers network.
Spam Emails All e-mail messages pass through Norlights Mail Guardian
servers. If a virus is detected, Norlights Mail Guardian
quarantines the message and sends a notification to the sender and
receiver. If no virus is detected, Norlights Mail Guardian simply
forwards the message to the customers e-mail server for normal
delivery.
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Kristin V. Johnson is a Madison-based writer. She can be reached
at kristin@wistechnology.com.
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