ROI and Other Cost Benefits of Reputation-Based Services

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Table of ContentsAbstract..........................................................................................................................................2Introduction...................................................................................................................................2Are You Really Out of Bandwidth?..................................................................................................3Mail Security Gateways - Buy What You Need Not What They Want You to Buy...........................4Who Said Storage Was Cheap?......................................................................................................5Malware Cleanup Cost Savings Due to Multi-Vector Reputation....................................................5Overall Cost Savings.......................................................................................................................6Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................7
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© 2007 Secure Computing Corporation. All Rights Reserved. MGS-Monetary-WP-Feb08vF. Secure Computing, SafeWord, Sidewinder, Sidewinder G2, Sidewinder G2 Firewall, SmartFilter, Type Enforcement, CipherTrust, IronMail, IronIM, SofToken, Enterprise Strong, Mobile Pass, G2 Firewall, PremierAccess, SecureSupport, SecureOS, Bess, Cyberguard, SnapGear, Total Stream Protection, Webwasher, Strikeback and Web Inspector are trademarks of Secure Computing Corporation, registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. G2 Enterprise Manager, SmartReporter, Security Reporter, Application Defenses, Central Management Control, RemoteAccess, SecureWire, TrustedSource, On-Box, Securing connections between people, applications and networks and Access Begins with Identity are trademarks of Secure Computing Corporation.AbstractIn simplest terms, deploying a reputation service at the network edge is analogous to having a peephole in the front door of your house. You let in people you know and trust, question the ones you don't know, and shun the ones who look suspicious. Just by taking these simple measures you reduce your risk. Similarly, organizations can save a lot of money by filtering the bad traffic at the edge of the network using reputation based services. Among other things, companies can save considerable amounts of www.securecomputing.com money by: . Improving bandwidth with fewer expenses. Reducing infrastructure expenses to process already filtered content. Savings in the form of lesser storage . Eliminating the need to archive spam messages for compliance purposes. Protecting against phishing, zombies, spam, malware, viruses, etc. and subsequent cleanup costsAfter examining this document, the reader will not only understand the importance of securing the network edge with a global reputation service but will also appreciate the huge savings that can be ® Trealized. Furthermore, the paper explains how the Secure Computing TrustedSource reputation system adds a critical extra layer of proactive, advanced protection to help organizations accurately detect and block all types of threats to their messaging, web, and network environments.
IntroductionAn organization's network is the backbone of its very existence and is critical to its day-to-day success. Protecting the network is protecting the organization itself. Today there are even more threats to the network, from all sides and all corners of the globe:Given that spam can . Email and other messaging protocol attacks including spam, Phishing, directory harvest, and denial comprise as much as 95 percent of all email, an of serviceappliance that eliminates . Web-based attacks such as malware-infected URLs, unfilte... [download for more]