Northern Grid For Learning:

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• Northern Grid For Learning
• Anti-Spam Presentation

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What is Spam?

• Unsolicited commercial email
• Bot Nets
• Spyware / Viruses
• Multi Million pound corporations
• Cryptography and exploits

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mySpamDetector Enterprise vs SMB

• Common misconceptions
• Personal spam solutions
• Striking a balance
• Northern Grid has -
• 375 active schools
• 139,231 active users

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Northern Grid How it Works

• AV / AS servers
• SpamAssassin, Postfix and Sophos Anti-Virus
  Engine
• Leverage the benefit of commercial development
  and
• open collaboration
• Central repository of heuristic scores
• Bayesian shared database
• Delivered to School Administrator Filtered
  Spam
• folder

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Northern Grid How it Works
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A Spam Free Future? Not Quite!

• Ever moving target
• User education
• ICT responsibilities

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Product Improvement

• Ability to submit emails for training
• Per teacher spam folder
• Collaboration and suggestions

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Questions
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References

• http//www.informationweek.com/story/showArticl
  e.jhtml?articleID196701527
• http//www.ironport.com/securitytrends/
• http//itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.p
  hp/3481971
• http//www.rulesemporium.com/
• http//www.postfix.org
• http//www.spamassassin.org
• http//razor.sourceforge.net/

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