Welcome to SearchSecurity.com's Email Security School, where you'll learn tactics for securing your email 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 email address and attend all three course webcasts will receive a certificate of completion from SearchSecurity.com.
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| Email Security School Course Outline |
Lesson 1: Email Security Essentials
Learn standards-based ways to increase the security of SMTP-based email as well as the architecture for identifying and defining email 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 email security essentials.
- Webcast: Email security: Taming the beast -- The essentials
- Technical paper: Filling SMTP gaps -- The secrets to using email standards
- Quiz: Do you have a firm email 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 email 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: Email 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: Email Policy Control
Learn how to centralize email security efforts and construct requirements definitions for email security. Factors to consider when evaluating and selecting enterprise email security products will also be addressed. After you've completed parts I and II, take the Email Security School final exam to assess your knowledge of email security based on what you've learned here.
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Joel Snyder is a senior partner with Opus One, a consulting firm in Tucson, Ariz. He
sent his first network email in 1980, and has been designing and implementing enterprise email
systems ever since. He is partially to blame for the X.400 messaging standards and has been trying
to atone for them ever since.
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This was first published in April 2005