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Belnet Antispam Pro A practical example. Belnet – Aris Adamantiadis BNC – 24 November 2011. Agenda. The problem with SPAM The worth of spam Spam is dangerous Possible solutions Antispam pro Advantages Features Demonstration. The problem with SPAM. The problem with SPAM. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Belnet Antispam ProA practical exampleBelnet – Aris Adamantiadis BNC – 24 November 2011
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Agenda
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The problem with SPAM– The worth of spam
– Spam is dangerous
– Possible solutions
Antispam pro– Advantages
– Features
Demonstration
The problem with SPAM
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The problem with SPAM
Email is critical– Highly important communication channel
– Staff & students expected to read mails
– Also source of unsolicited “commercial” emails…
Email is a huge mass-market platform– Spammers send huge volume of bulk emails
– Even very low click rate (below 1%) produce huge profits
Spammers abuse your resources
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The worth of spam
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0.000008 % success– 8 sells on 10 million emails
– Spam business not going to stop
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Spam is dangerous
Numerous threats– Abuse of human and computer resources
– Identity and information theft
– Extortion of money
– Estimated cost of spam: €100-300 /user /year
It is important to protect against it– Antispam filter
– Antivirus solution
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Possible solutions
In-house Antispam solution– Very flexible, independence
– Very expensive in HR
Commercial appliance– Good maintenance
– Rack space, power, availability issues
Commercial cloud solution– Good scalability, easy maintenance
– Where are your data stored ?
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Belnet Antispam Pro
Cloud-based solution– Customizable and scalable spam and virus protection
– Automatic updates in spam protection software
– High availability
Flexible– Easy user management and delegation
– Customizable by customer
Complete– Inbound and outbound mail spam scanning
– Detailed Reporting
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Architectural overview
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Antispam Pro : Advantages
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Advantages
Less spam– Around 98% of spam caught
– Economies in bandwidth, storage and
hardware
Cloud service– No hardware needed
– No infrastructure maintenance
– Scales to your needs
– Emails stay in our network
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Advantages
Easy to use– Access through (simple or expert) web interface
– Allow configuration per: institution, domain, end-user
– Administration delegation• Makes it easy to have different administrators for each domain
– Interactive help on all Web User Interface pages
Cost effectiveness– Less resources spent, less bandwidth, less maintenance
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Advantages
IPv6 compliant– Your email service is publicly available on IPv6 from day 1
Multiple authentication methods– LDAP(s), Active Directory, IMAP(s)
– Belnet R&E federation
Support– 24/7 Helpdesk for urgent issues
– 24/7 service monitoring (NOC)
– Business hours standard support
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Features of Antispam Pro
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Functionalities
Blacklisting, whitelisting
Greylisting
SPF, DKIM
Bayesian filtering
Antivirus
Phishing detection
Geolocalisation
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Feature – Spam filtering
Possible actions on spam– Trap
– Tagging
– Reject
– Drop
Log searching– Based on recipient, stream, date, subject, …
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Customization - Realms
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Customization - Realms
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Single administrative entity
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User login
End users can log in the platform (if permitted)– Authentication via AD, LDAP, Belnet R&E Federation, POP3, IMAP
– Users can change some settings
Users can access the trap– If quarantine is used (optional feature)
– Spam emails are stored in a trap for 40 days
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Filter settings and inheritance
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Outgoing mail server
Antispam Pro can be used for outgoing mail– Email goes through spamfilter for security
– Rate-limiting mandatory (on a reasonable basis)
Only for Antispam Pro customers– Access permitted on basis of IP address (yours !)
– Not a separate product
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Virus scanning
Virus scanning enabled by default– Currently using ClamAV
– No AV can give 100% success rate
– AV solution will be enhanced in near future
Emails scanned positively are rejected– Setting is customizable but change is discouraged
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Demonstration
In practice
How to implement– Email, phone call to CR department
– Appointment with Technical Advisor
– Contract + implementation
Pricing– Based on amount of users
– Organization category
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Briefly
Antispam PRO is a very effective way of
resolving the spam problem– Fully customizable, a-la-carte email filtering
– High availability
– Cloud-based, no infrastructure
– Secure
– Interested ? See us !
[email protected] - 02 790 33 33
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Bonus: Cost of Spam
1 FTE : ±60.000€ /year– 220 days of 7.5 hours
– 35€ per hour
20 Spams per day– 5 seconds per spam to clean up
– 1.6 minutes every day
– 6 hours every year
200 € of unproductivity /year
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