Network Associates this week will launch its McAfee
SpamKiller appliance, which is based on McAfee's
WebShield.
The SpamKiller boxes provide scoring, filtering and heuristic
detection rules to shut out spam at the internet gateway, said Zoe
Lowthere, group product marketing manager at McAfee.
To curb repeated spam attacks, the appliances offer personalised
lists to determine both acceptable and unacceptable senders. The
product also includes real-time black hole list support capable of
quarantining or blocking e-mail.
Many customers, however, will not wake up to the spam problem
until e-mail storage or upkeep is severely affected, said Eric
Hemmendinger, security analyst for Aberdeen Group.
IronPort Systems will also ship an e-mail gateway appliance
which uses reputation filtering to identify the source of spam. The
IronPort C60 can capture information about a sender, such as
country of origin, and whether or not the sender receives return
mail.
Next month, SurfControl will roll out E-mail Filter 4.7,
featuring tools to weed out hidden code within HTML e-mails.
Deerfield.com will also introduce VisNetic MailPermit, gateway
software to verify a message sender's legitimacy.
Brian Fonseca and Cathleen Moore writes for InfoWorld