Fifteen years ago this month, the age of spam began. Like so many things, it started innocently enough, when a couple of immigration lawyers in Phoenix pitched their services to pretty much everyone who was on the Internet at the time, via the 6,000 newsgroups in existence then.More...

From the walled cities of medieval Europe to the forts of colonial America, our ancestors accomplished their objective: keep bad things out by limiting access to just one safe entry and exit point. Today we may not have to worry about roving hordes of vandals, or hungry bears or wolves, but for the electronic threats – the ones that can really damage a business network – it calls for a new breed of “fortress.” More...

One of my fellow Bloggers recently made a posted titled “Canning spam at the door” regarding the issue of fighting SPAM in the cloud. As Marc described, last year Sprint stopped more than 250 billion SPAM messages from reaching its customers (more than 98% of email sent using Sprint’s services!). While there are lots of ways to fight the SPAM problem, as he described, one of the best options is a network-based solution that works within the cloud.More...