The July 2010 edition of ‘In the Boxing Ring’ newsletter has been released.

In June, we have continued to work behind-the-scenes on the new Box Office and NOC support systems (ready for new product feature launches in 2010Q3). More on this in the upcoming Q3 newsletters.

In this months newsletter, we discuss how Network Box uses real-time spam traps. Submissions to spam [at] network-box [dot] com system are useful, but real-time spam trap feeds are proving to be the most effective mechanism for being able to (a) improve accuracy of Network Box anti-spam, and (b) precisely measure the performance of the Network Box Anti-Spam solution. Spam traps are deployed by redirecting mail from unused mail boxes into a centralised spam trap. In this way, statistics can be automatically generated on the effectiveness of the solution, and spam samples which are currently undetected as such can be submitted, in real-time, to Network Box so that our security response teams can release protection signatures and heuristics as quickly and effectively as possible.

On page 3, we present the usual monthly hint (this month regarding how best to work with the NOC for deployment of a real-time spam trap), and outline the software updates delivered as part of this month’s software release.

The newsletter it available on the www.network-box.com website, or you can sign-up to receive copies of it by eMail.

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