Welcome to the new Mail & Web Security Blog! Brightmail isn’t going away, but we wanted to expand our coverage to include news about our complete email and web security portfolio, including the Brightmail products (Brightmail Gateway, Brightmail Message Filter, and Brightmail Traffic Shaper), the Mail Security products (Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange and Mail Security for Domino), and Symantec Web Gateway.
In addition, Symantec’s messaging and web security products are core components of the Symantec Protection Suites.
Stay tuned for more updates, including an expanded cast of authors as we grow our coverage across a broader slice of the Symantec portfolio.
Revision Note: V2.0 (September 28, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin
Summary: Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-070 to ad…
Revision Note: V1.0 (September 14, 2010): Advisory published.
Summary: Microsoft has completed the investigation of a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Outlook Web Access (OWA) that may affect Microsoft Exchange customers. An…
Virus Bulletin just published their September 2010 test results (http://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/index), and Symantec Brightmail Gateway once against received a VBSpam designation – our 5th consecutive recognition.
In this month’s test, Symantec Brightmail Gateway registered an effectiveness score of 99.64%, with 0 false positives! It is great to see external validation for the premium that Symantec places on balancing very high effectiveness (over 99%) with accuracy (low false positives) in fighting spam.
You may be familiar with the Virus Bulletin name – Virus Bulletin is an independent third party that has been running comparative tests on antivirus technologies for over a decade. Symantec’s antivirus engines have achieved over 40 VB100 awards during this time.
Our team is thrilled with the latest results on the VBSpam testing. Symantec Brightmail Gateway is a core component of Symantec Protection Suite (Enterprise Edition and Advanced Business Edition), and is also available as a stand-alone enterprise product and the Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition, for customers with fewer than 250 employees.
I can’t quite believe it’s September already, this year is flying by at a crazy pace.
This means that the Symantec Vision conference in EMEA has come around quickly too.
This year, we are at the CCIB in Barcelona, Spain, during the first week of October – Tuesday 5th through Thursday 7th.
Amongst the many, many sessions over the 3 day conference, there are a number of Mail & Web security sessions that you shouldn’t miss (not least because I’m co-presenting them 
), so in no particular order.
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Best Practices for Email Security.
- Anatomy of a Web Attack.
- Hands On Lab – Best Practices for installing and Configuring Symantec Brightmail Gateway.
- Hands On Lab – Best Practices for installing and Configuring Symantec Web Gateway.
- Deploying Symantec Protection Suite: Architecture and Best Practices.
Other interesting sessions in the messaging and web security realm:
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The State of Spam
- Cost of Email Security – Calculating your risks
- Protecting against Botnets
- Best Practices for installing and configuring Symantec Mail Security for Exchange
- Running Security Operations with Symantec Protection Center
If you are joining us at EMEA Vision this year, what are you looking forward to most?
Be sure to let me know if you are coming along, there are going to be plenty of opportunities to talk to our product specialists, engineers, decision makers and of course to network with your peers.
//ian
Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Advisory published.
Summary: Microsoft is aware of the potential for attacks that leverage the Windows Service Isolation feature to gain elevation of privilege. This advisory discusses pot…
Revision Note: V2.0 (August 10, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin.
Summary: Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-049 to addr…
Revision Note: V2.0 (August 2, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin.
Summary: Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability.
Your main problem overseas is that you only rely on this SSN and that nobody can verify that it matches you, because you always refused to have ID cards. Here in good old Europe, ID cards establish the relation between the photo, name and some numbers. We don\’t rely on a random number that anybody could forge and that nobody could check. This is a major step you will have to pass at one point.
Revision Note: V2.0 (July 13, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin.
Summary: Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-042 to addres…