On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 03:48:28PM -0400, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
It can also serve as a basis for reputation and accreditation systems.
Remember that spam is multipronged, and this is another tool in the
toolbox. No one is talking about this as the final solution for spam.
It's important to realize that there is no one single "solution for
spam". Much like the security arena, any successful anti-spam strategy
will need to take a "layered onion" approach: multiple, diverse tools
and techniques, none sufficient on their own, that provide a
comprehensive solution when deployed together. This means that a robust
anti-spam solution will encompass authentication, reputation,
acceditation, whitelisting, blacklisting, filtering, and other
techniques, at various points in an organization's infrastructure.
There is no anti-spam magic bullet, nor a simple, all-in-one appliance
with a single management interface that'll solve all your spam problems.
A single firewall does not a security strategy make; a single anti-spam
tool does not an anti-spam strategy make.
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