IBM offers new e-mail defense
IBM on Friday unveiled an e-mail service meant to stop viruses and spam before they get inside a company's network.
The new E-mail Security Management Services technology, based on work done by e-mail security firm MessageLabs, monitors inbound and outbound messages outside a company's network to help prevent uncontrolled distribution of harmful and unwanted content, IBM said.
The managed service uses a combination of scanning and predictive technology to detect viruses, and an image filter to weed out lewd and otherwise unwanted pictures. Likely spam messages are quarantined before they can build up in a company's internal storage, IBM said.
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