SearchSecurity.com's E-mail Security School

Welcome to SearchSecurity.com's E-mail Security School, where you'll learn tactics for securing your e-mail systems, beginning with the essentials, moving on to spam and virus defense, and wrapping up with policy control. Each of the three lessons consists of a webcast, technical paper and quiz created by our guest instructor, Joel Snyder. Participants who register with a valid e-mail address and attend all three course webcasts will receive a certificate of completion from SearchSecurity.com.    Course Outline    Begin Lesson 1: E-mail Security Essentials    Begin Lesson 2: Spam and Virus Mitigation Strategies    Begin Lesson 3: E-mail Policy Control    About the Instructor    Security School Discussion Forum (IE only)

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

Security School Discussion Forum Send the editor your feedback on this Security School Visit our Web Security School Visit our CISSP Security School SPONSORED LINKS Symantec white paper: The Evolution of Email Security: Symantec Brightmail Integrated Email Security Appliance Symantec webcast: A defensive in-depth approach to e-mail security: Protection from internal and external threats

Lesson 1: E-mail Security Essentials
Learn standards-based ways to increase the security of SMTP-based e-mail as well as the architecture for identifying and defining e-mail security threats from the IP layer through SMTP, MIME and up to the content layer. After you've attended the webcast and read the technical paper, take the quiz to assess your knowledge of e-mail security essentials.

• Webcast: E-mail security: Taming the beast -- The essentials
• Technical paper: Filling SMTP gaps -- The secrets to using e-mail standards
• Quiz: Do you have a firm e-mail security foundation?

Lesson 2: Spam and Virus Mitigation Strategies
Learn proactive strategies for minimizing the threat of spam and viruses to enterprise networks. Building on the e-mail security essentials introduced in Lesson 1, Joel Snyder further explains how spam and viruses should be dealt with once they've made their way on to networks, and explains issues in implementing end user controls and quarantines. After you've attended the webcast and read the technical paper, take the quiz to assess your knowledge of spam and virus mitigation strategies

• Webcast: E-mail security: Taming the beast -- Spam and virus mitigation strategies
• Technical paper: Oops! Exposing the biggest blunders for fighting spam and viruses
• Quiz: Can you slay spam and viruses?

Lesson 3: E-mail Policy Control
Learn how to centralize e-mail security efforts and construct requirements definitions for e-mail security. Factors to consider when evaluating and selecting enterprise e-mail security products will also be addressed. After you've completed parts I and II, take the E-mail Security School final exam to assess your knowledge of e-mail security based on what you've learned here.

• Webcast: E-mail security: Taming the beast -- Policy control
• Technical paper: Rules for tools: Buying the right e-mail security product
• Final exam: Have you mastered the essentials of e-mail security?