Janet
, the organisation that operates the UK's education and research
computer network, is to use aSophos ES4000 e-mail applianceto try
to stem the tide of spam, phishing and data leakage currently
battering against its gateway.
Sophos revealed
the extent of Janet's problems yesterday. The Joint Academic
NETwork is deluged by 100,000 spams a month, in addition to malware
attacks. And these are just the attacks that Sophos has
identified.
Janet bought two Sophos ES4000 appliances as its staff deal with
large volumes of external e-mail, and routinely send out
confidential information and business-critical communications.
Peter Kent, head of ICT services at Janet, said that the
solution improved security and speed of delivery. "Our ICT
administrators are thrilled with the drastic reduction in unwanted
e-mail, which formerly flooded our employees' inboxes," he
said.
"On one user's account, the appliance has blocked more than
150,000 spam messages to date, many of which would have slipped
through our previous vendor's filter and caused serious
productivity problems.
"Now employees don't have to read and delete unwanted mail while
our ICT administrators enjoy low-level maintenance."
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