Every year businesses spend billions of dollars combating the overwhelming amount of junk email their employees receive. With the Anti-Spam Toolkit, systems administrators have at their fingertips the tools they need to significantly reduce junk email. Through real-world software and examples, the authors demonstrate how to identify spam, deploy the best-suited anti-spam system for a business, keep legitimate email from being mistaken for spam, adapt and improve anti-spam systems, and stay one step ahead of spammers. They also cover the latest and most popular technologies available on the market for the proactive systems administrator. The CD-ROM includes all the tools discussed in the book.
Annihilate Spam for Good!
Get the tools you need to build a spam-fighting e-mail system and put fathead spammers on the run. This book provides the latest in spam-fighting techniques, including spam-squelching tools, anti-spam best practices, and the secrets about the Internet that the spammers don’t want you to know. With Anti-Spam Tool Kit, you’ll learn to build a spam control system across a broad range of solutions, from open source to proprietary, from basic client-based tools to complex gateway solutions, from simple spam control methods to a full-scale strategy for your war on spam.
Explains how to configure and use these and many other key tools:
- Filtering methods: Rule-based, signature, distributed, and Bayesian
- Blacklist services: SpamCop, MAPS, ORDB, SpamHaus
- Gateway-based solutions: Symantec, Surf Control, Brightmail, CipherTrust
- Provider-based solutions: BindMail, SpamShark, SkyScan, E-Mail Bouncer
- Anti-spam tools in: Eudora, Mozilla Mail, Outlook Express, Outlook
- Windows spam filters: KnockKnock, SpamBayes, SpamNet, SpamButcher
- Mac spam filters: POPMonitor, PostArmor, SpamFire
- Linux/UNIX spam filters—SpamAssassin, Vipul’s Razor, Bogofilter
- Windows Server-based solutions—iHateSpam Server Edition, GFI Mail Essentials
CD-ROM contains popular anti-spam tools from the book
Paul Wolfe is an independent information security consultant for Fortune 500 companies, law enforcement, and government.
Charlie Scott, CISSP, CCNP, is an information security analyst for the city of Austin, Texas, where he helps maintain network security infrastructure and policies.
Mike W. Erwin, CISSP, is the President and Founder of Symbiot, Inc., an information security company specializing in intelligent security management and advanced risk metrics.
