Email is a critical communications tool. Email downtime means a loss of productivity, possible compliance and regulatory issues related to data loss, or even lost revenues. Minimizing email downtime is an increasingly important part of an organization’s messaging infrastructure and of its disaster prevention and recovery strategy.

Email is a critical communications tool. Email downtime means a loss of productivity, possible compliance and regulatory issues related to data loss, or even lost revenues. Minimizing email downtime is an increasingly important part of an organization’s messaging infrastructure and of its disaster prevention and recovery strategy.

Security threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and harder to detect. Many small and medium sized businesses are still convinced that a firewall, anti-virus and anti-spam software are enough to protect their networks. With cyber-crime on the increase it is imperative that organizations are aware of the security threats that they face on a daily basis. This goal of this guide is to raise awareness in organizations of the importance of security and how they can deal with the threats.

There are a number of archiving technologies in use today and solutions that integrate with Microsoft Exchange Server and the Outlook client predominantly use stub files to archive their emails. This white paper explains what email archiving options are available to IT administrators and why a non-stub file approach is beneficial. To download a copy of the white paper, please visit Download Paper>>

Email is a primary source of documentation for many organizations and it has taken on an increasingly critical role in corporate court proceedings, regulatory compliance and legal discovery. The need to archive all email correspondence is growing because companies are realizing that being in a position to retrieve an old email could save them thousands of dollars in legal fees and fines as well as their credibility. This document provides an overview of the archiving legislation in the US. Read more about GFI products: http://www.gfi.com

A buyers’ guide to anti-spam software, this white paper highlights the key features to look for in anti-spam software and why. Read more about GFI MailEssentials

This white paper describes how Bayesian filtering works and explains why it is the best way to combat spam. Read more about GFI products: http://www.gfi.com

This white paper explains what email exploits are, provides examples of common email exploits, and discusses why a non signature-based approach (i.e., not a virus engine) is needed to protect against email exploits. Read more about GFI products: http://www.gfi.com

This white paper explains why anti-virus software alone is not enough to protect your organization against the current and future onslaught of email viruses and threats. Examining the different kinds of email attacks and issues that threaten today's organizations, this paper describes the need for a solid server-based email security solution to safeguard your network. Read more about GFI products: http://www.gfi.com

This white paper explains the need to monitor security event logs network-wide and how you can achieve this using GFI EventsManager (former GFI LANguard Security Event Log Monitor). It is written by Randy Franklin Smith, author of the in-depth series on the Windows security log in Windows 2000 & .NET Magazine. Read more about GFI EventsManager

A discussion of the methods used by hackers to attack IIS web servers, and how you can use event log monitoring on your web server to be alerted to successful attacks immediately. Read more about GFI products: http://www.gfi.com

This white paper provides an overview how to use GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) and Microsoft Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) to keep your network automatically updated with the latest security patches. Read more about GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner

A common misconception is that perimeter security measures such as firewalls and anti-virus software are enough to secure corporate data residing on the corporate network. In this white paper, we explore how the uncontrolled use of portable storage devices such as iPods, USB sticks, flash drives and PDAs, coupled with data theft techniques such as ‘pod slurping’, can lead to major security breaches. Read more about GFI EndPointSecurity

There is no single anti-virus engine on the market today that is always the fastest and most effective at identifying viruses, trojans and other threats. This white paper examines why having multiple anti-virus scanners at mail server level substantially reduces the chance of virus infection and explores ways in which this can be achieved. Read more about GFI products: http://www.gfi.com

Major credit card companies are pushing hard to stop the financial fraud incidents that have affected numerous organizations and their consumers. Consequently, organizations that accept payment card transactions are duly bound to comply to PCI DSS by end of 2007. Organizations that fail to comply, risk not being allowed to handle cardholder data and fines of up to $500,000 if the data is lost or stolen.

This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. In the space of two months, spammers have switched from image spam to using PDF, Excel and ZIP file attachments. By using these attachments to send images instead of embedding them in the body of the email message, spammers have taken the cat-and-mouse game with anti-spam software developers to a new level. Read more about GFI MailEssentials

Spam generates an enormous amount of traffic that is both time-consuming to handle and resource intensive. Apart from that, a large number of organizations have been victims of NDR spam that has an effect similar to a Distributed Denial of Service on the email system. In this paper we provide a technical explanation of NDR Spam and recommend solutions that can prevent or limit exposure to this kind of unsolicited email. Read more about GFI MailEssentials

GFI Software, an international IT security and messaging software developer, today announces new independent research into the status, progress and perception of email archiving uptake within UK small to medium sized enterprises. Read more about GFI MailArchiver