
Anti-Spam Tool Kit
McGraw-Hill Professional (Publisher)
Published on 16. March 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-07-223167-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
500 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
918 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-223167-0 (9780072231670)
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Persons
Charlie Scott CISSP, CCNP (Austin, TX) is an Information Security Analyst for the City of Austin, where he helps maintain the City's network security infrastructure and policies. He sees spam as a special kind of security problem, and has engineered spam countermeasures for ISP and government e-mail systems. Mike Erwin CISSP is a founder of Symbiot, Inc., an information security company specializing in computer crime, forensics, and threat modeling. Prior to Symbiot, he thwarted spam at an ISP and data center company he founded in 1994, and prior to that was an Internet services manager at Apple Computer. He has given conference presentations on a variety of topics, including how to stop a spammer. Paul Wolfe is an independent information security consultant and author. Before going freelance, he spent eight years in the data center industry (the source and destination of much spam), where he implemented secure electronic commerce and e-mail systems for small to mid-sized companies. Paul has performed information security work for Fortune 500 companies, law enforcement, and government.
Content
Part I: Preparing for the Fight 1: Forming Your Plan Against Spam 2: Goals and Criteria for Evaluating Spam Control Solutions 3: Methods for Mail Content Control 4: Anti-Spam Implementation Strategies Part II: Building Your Anti-Spam Arsenal 5: Blocking Spammers with DNS Blacklists 6: Filtering Spam with SpamAssassin 7: Catching Spam with SpamAssassin's Bayesian Classifier 8: Enhancing and Maintaining SpamAssassin 9: Configuring Popular E-mail Clients for Spam Filtering Part III: Implementing Other Popular Anti-Spam Tools 10: Anti-Spam Clients for Windows 11: Anti-Spam Servers for Windows 12: Anti-Spam Tools for Macs 13: Anti-Spam Tools for Linux Part IV: Stopping Spam in the Long Term 14: Know Your Enemy 15: Advanced Topics and Fine Tuning 16: Fighting Spam Defensively Glossary: Definitions and Acronyms A: Selected Anti-Spam Resources B: About the CD-ROM