Dmitri Alperovitch talks about reputation-based spam protection

By Dan Blacharski, ITworld.com

What if you could determine ahead of time the intentions of everyone who sends you an email? Wouldn't it be wonderful to know, without a doubt, who the bad guys are? What if there were a central authority that knew the reputations of everyone who has ever sent an email? As it turns out, you don't have to be a mind-reader. Reputation-based security is very similar to what the financial services industry has created with credit agencies. In this interview, Dmitri Alperovitch, Chief Research Scientist at Secure Computing and developer of reputation-based security, talks about the evolution of spam, the next big thing in spam prevention, and how to identify the culprits before they bombard your email server. ...continue reading 'Dmitri Alperovitch talks about reputation-based spam protection'