RE: Cloud-Based Email Filtering

2012-07-02 Thread Alan Davies
I'll second that - about 10 years experience with them across multiple
roles.  No issues at all.  If you think this exposes you to additional
operational risk or security risk, you probably overestimate greatly
your own operational or security capabilities! ;o)

 

That said, the portal could sometimes be easier to use and Symantec
taking over fills me with dread for the future development of the
service ..

 

Honestly, cloud services for email and web traffic are an absolute
no-brainer for me these days.  It's such a great fit and great price
that you'd have to be trying *really* hard to do better, let alone
cheaper, internally - I've never come across a company that does so.
The additional benefits of removing Internet peering touchpoints from
your network shouldn't be underestimated either from a security
perspective.  If you do both of these things and also enforce device
control on authorised media (preferably along with a policy for offline
scanning prior to internal use once they touch a non-company machine),
then malware is going to have a seriously hard time getting onto your
systems (not that I wouldn't recommend application whitelisting, removal
of admin, etc. and all other sensible host measures).

 

 

 

 

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From: Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com] 
Sent: 01 July 2012 16:29
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cloud-Based Email Filtering

 

We use Symantec cloud, ex-Brightmail/ex-MessageLabs.  Basically it's
MessageLabs, and has been rock solid for us.

 

 

From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 4:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Cloud-Based Email Filtering

 

I've used Postini elsewhere with excellent results, and at $12/user/year
it's very cost-effictive.

 

Any other recommendations for external spam and malware filtering?


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RE: Cloud-Based Email Filtering

2012-07-02 Thread Alan Davies
Lol .. no comment! ;)

 

Yes, you're quite right about it being a chokepoint.  However it's a well 
defended and hugely redundant implementation of a service that should easily 
surpass any controls, operational or security, that the vast majority of 
businesses could put in place.  It's a massively high-throughput system - 
copying mail for later perusal, controls aside, would be rather impractical.  
Your ISP is a far higher risk and more likely location for such snooping.

 

At the end of the day, a decent data classification and handling policy is the 
correct solution there.  Appropriate use of TLS and/or S/MIME will remove the 
confidentiality/integrity concerns.  DoS comes down again to the terms of 
service and again is more likely to be realised through your ISP's 
capabilities.  Know your vendors and independently audit them where appropriate.

 

 

 

a

 

From: John Matteson [mailto:john.matte...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 02 July 2012 12:41
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cloud-Based Email Filtering

 

Guess it's the sailor in me.. shoving all your mail through a service is a 
chokepoint. One that could be exploited to copy mail for later perusing... or 
cut, providing a denial of your service.

 

Just two of my concerns.

 

John M.

 

From: Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 5:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cloud-Based Email Filtering

 

I'll second that - about 10 years experience with them across multiple roles.  
No issues at all.  If you think this exposes you to additional operational risk 
or security risk, you probably overestimate greatly your own operational or 
security capabilities! ;o)

 

That said, the portal could sometimes be easier to use and Symantec taking over 
fills me with dread for the future development of the service ..

 

Honestly, cloud services for email and web traffic are an absolute no-brainer 
for me these days.  It's such a great fit and great price that you'd have to be 
trying *really* hard to do better, let alone cheaper, internally - I've never 
come across a company that does so.  The additional benefits of removing 
Internet peering touchpoints from your network shouldn't be underestimated 
either from a security perspective.  If you do both of these things and also 
enforce device control on authorised media (preferably along with a policy for 
offline scanning prior to internal use once they touch a non-company machine), 
then malware is going to have a seriously hard time getting onto your systems 
(not that I wouldn't recommend application whitelisting, removal of admin, etc. 
and all other sensible host measures).

 

 

 

 

a

 

From: Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com] 
Sent: 01 July 2012 16:29
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cloud-Based Email Filtering

 

We use Symantec cloud, ex-Brightmail/ex-MessageLabs.  Basically it's 
MessageLabs, and has been rock solid for us.

 

 

From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 4:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Cloud-Based Email Filtering

 

I've used Postini elsewhere with excellent results, and at $12/user/year it's 
very cost-effictive.

 

Any other recommendations for external spam and malware filtering?


Roger Wright
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RE: internal spam

2012-02-27 Thread Alan Davies
All very valid points.  I'd add to the mix that the OP's endpoint
protection strategy probably wants some looking at.  If you regularly
fall victim to phishing attacks that successfully infect hosts, then
spam is one very small part of your worries - DLP and other such issues
may be even higher on the agenda.
 
Many avenues to explore depending on budget and impact considerations,
but examining in and outbound web traffic would be a good start (cloud
services do *real* well here for once!).  In fact, I'd recommend it for
your SMTP too, but you obviously already have an anti-spam solution, so
may not be possible to replace it.  Host protection wise, no local admin
is top of the pile (and it *can* be done in any size organisation).
Whitelisting is a huge win, but can be a challenge depending on how
hands on your IT is.  HIDS would have prevented the high-rate spam from
the host.  AV should have worked better!
 
 
 
a



From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] 
Sent: 25 February 2012 14:11
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: internal spam



Just an FYI.

If you allow OWA to the iinterweb, these scammers have scripts that can
spam via compromised accounts also.

We've never allowed pop or imap outside but we had 2 accounts
compromised and they each sent several thousand emails over a weekend.

IIS logs ballooned during the time.

Oh and to help with this, we forced said users to re-take our online
security awareness training.

Funny how word of mouth works better than our training as we've not had
an incident in the past 2 years.

I didn't really say that did I?  ;)

 

From: Sharp, Kevin [mailto:kevin.sh...@usask.ca] 
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 6:38 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: internal spam

 

The accounts have been compromised...usually via a phishing attempt.  So
the entire process of the internal attack is with a valid authenticated
acct.   We have our SMTP services set to be authenticated...the problem
is looking for a process that we can use to identify potential accounts
that are sending volumes of email and hopefully stop it before the pile
of email gets too large. Usually the attack sends thousands of email to
valid and nonvalid email addresses...which of course we don't notice
until the pile of invalid email starts to pile up.

 

I know..it is comical J.  User education has helped, but like any good
phishing attack, it only takes one bite to cause this problem. 

 

Thanks

 

 

Kevin

 

From: Mike Tavares [mailto:miketava...@comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 4:26 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: internal spam

 

1 question just to clear up some confusion on my part.

 

Are the actual accounts in question compromised?  (as in someone has
direct access to the mailboxes on your server?)  or just compromised in
the since that some spammer/hacker on the outside is spoofing an email
address from your company that is a legit address?

 

 

 

From: Sharp, Kevin mailto:kevin.sh...@usask.ca  

Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:19 PM

To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com  

Subject: internal spam

 

I'm wondering how people are dealing with compromised accounts in
Exchange sending large volumes of email...essentially an internal spam
attack.

 

Occasionally a phishing attempt will make it past our spam software, and
of course the odd unsuspecting user ends up with a compromised  account
which makes a connection to the mail system via either a compromised PC
or external connection.

 

We notice this when the email starts piling up, and action can be taken
then..but I'm wondering if there is some software or method that might
have some more smarts.

 

We've had numerous incidents but so farnot an easy way to
distinguish a potential spam attack until after it happens, and the
email starts piling up in the retry queue.

 

I've looked at throttling policies and some of the transport filtering,
not sure if that will help us much.   What are others doing?

 

Thanks

 

Kevin Sharp

 

 

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RE: Random monitoring of emails

2011-06-27 Thread Alan Davies
Easy is relative! ;)
 
My first thoughts would be either have something query Exchange with the
appropriate permissions and it could be programmed to do what you need,
or have a gateway product in front of Exchange do something similar (eg.
maybe something like MIMEsweeper could have a rule to copy every x mails
to another address, etc.).
 
 
 
a



From: Tobie Fysh [mailto:tobie.f...@freebridge.org.uk] 
Sent: 27 June 2011 12:30
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Random monitoring of emails



Hi everyone,

 

I've been asked to look if there is any easy way to implement a random
email sample being forwarded to a person's line manager. The background
is for customer service monitoring.

 

The idea is that Jane sends 10 emails in a day and that 2 of those
emails get automagically forwarded (hub transport) to her manager (the
one specified in Active Directory).

 

This needs to be achieved on the server with no interaction from the end
user (Jane) and applied to a certain group of users (which can change
daily).

 

This is on Exchange 2007.

 

Copy of email is not a problem with Hub transport rules but 

* how could you do it for a random selection and not each email
that Jane sends?

* how can it automatically go to the Manager in AD (and change
when the manager changes)?

 

Regards

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RE: Exactly what I've been worrying about...

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Davies
As for passwords protecting iPhones, I wouldn't rely on it!  You don't
need anything bar the actual phone:

http://www.bgr.com/2011/02/10/fraunhofer-cracks-iphone-password-in-6-min
utes-exposes-stored-passwords-video/


I don't see these kind of issues going away, so I'd be inclined to avoid
storing sensitive data on such devices full stop.



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-Original Message-
From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] 
Sent: 22 April 2011 14:04
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exactly what I've been worrying about...

Not 100% on this.. but...

1) If you have a password on your iPhone:
They have to connect the phone to your PC where you have already synced
the phone, then they can bypass the password by copying certain files to
your itunes and syncing the phone.

2) If you have a BlackBerry with a password and an IT policy that
doesn't allow you to install applications, this system may not work at
all, because I believe you need to be able install a small client
application on the BB to read the info.

http://www.phone-forensics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16281




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RE: garbled Japanese character sets

2010-09-30 Thread Alan Davies
You really think so .. de de dum dum de dum dum ..
 



From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 30 September 2010 15:56
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: garbled Japanese character sets


It appears we're turning Japanese...


2010/9/30 Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com


お二人はすごいじゃあないですか? 本当に日本語できますか?


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote:


しかし、Shookie赤ちゃんはまだ古代のOutlook 
2003を使用しているので、彼は我々が送信されているすべてのこの日本のものを参照することはありません。

 

 

Webster

 

From: Pete Howard [mailto:pchow...@yahoo.com] 
Subject: Re: garbled Japanese character sets

 

非常に良いウェブスター.  あなたは必ずその日本人です

 

 





From: Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com


Subject: RE: garbled Japanese character sets


我々は皆、あなたを無視している。

 

 

Webster

 

From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] 
Subject: FW: garbled Japanese character sets

 

Bueller?  Bueller?  Fry? Fry?

 

Shook

 

From: Andy Shook 
Subject: garbled Japanese character sets 

 

Exchange 2003 with Outlook 2003  2010

 

Got an issue with an international company whereby (I love that 
word) Japanese characters are getting mangled between Outlook 2003 and 2010 
clients.  I have read about this being an issue with Exchange 2007 but it was 
corrected within SP1.  Is this a known issue with Exchange 2003 and the best 
fix is to upgrade\migrate to Exchange 2010?  This is my first experience with 
the Japanese character set, so any help is appreciated.  

 

May the Swartz be with you…. 

 

Shook

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RE: garbled Japanese character sets

2010-09-30 Thread Alan Davies
Realising that most of you are Americans and it was an English band ... I gues 
that might not have made much sense ...
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Japanese
 
 
-'80s child



From: Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com] 
Sent: 30 September 2010 15:59
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: garbled Japanese character sets


You really think so .. de de dum dum de dum dum ..
 



From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 30 September 2010 15:56
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: garbled Japanese character sets


It appears we're turning Japanese...


2010/9/30 Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com


お二人はすごいじゃあないですか? 本当に日本語できますか?


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote:


しかし、Shookie赤ちゃんはまだ古代のOutlook 
2003を使用しているので、彼は我々が送信されているすべてのこの日本のものを参照することはありません。

 

 

Webster

 

From: Pete Howard [mailto:pchow...@yahoo.com] 
Subject: Re: garbled Japanese character sets

 

非常に良いウェブスター.  あなたは必ずその日本人です

 

 





From: Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com


Subject: RE: garbled Japanese character sets


我々は皆、あなたを無視している。

 

 

Webster

 

From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] 
Subject: FW: garbled Japanese character sets

 

Bueller?  Bueller?  Fry? Fry?

 

Shook

 

From: Andy Shook 
Subject: garbled Japanese character sets 

 

Exchange 2003 with Outlook 2003  2010

 

Got an issue with an international company whereby (I love that 
word) Japanese characters are getting mangled between Outlook 2003 and 2010 
clients.  I have read about this being an issue with Exchange 2007 but it was 
corrected within SP1.  Is this a known issue with Exchange 2003 and the best 
fix is to upgrade\migrate to Exchange 2010?  This is my first experience with 
the Japanese character set, so any help is appreciated.  

 

May the Swartz be with you…. 

 

Shook

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RE: Letter from Sunbelt CEO: GFI Acquires Sunbelt Software

2010-07-13 Thread Alan Davies
Tends not to be great for existing employees further down the chain as
departments are normalised ..!
 
Fingers crossed the lists remain ...
 
 
 
a



From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 13 July 2010 14:15
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Letter from Sunbelt CEO: GFI Acquires Sunbelt Software


Buyouts tend to enrich the executives of the newly formed company at the
expense of customers and shareholders.  More complicated companies
require additional compensation and experienced management.


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:05 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote:


To be quite honest my heart sank when I read the message this
AM. Having several installations of their products and doing some
selling of it as well I am pretty nervous about the possibilities, I've
never experienced a buyout that was a totally positive experience for
the end users. I hope and pray GFI has the sense to leave well enough
alone..


John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
315 SE 2nd Ave
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Office (352) 393-2741 x320
Cell (352) 215-6944
Fax (352) 393-2746
MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4



-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Letter from Sunbelt CEO: GFI Acquires Sunbelt
Software

Well, I wish them the best; but can't help but feel that's too
bad.

It'll be interesting to see how the competing product lines
shake out.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
http://theessentialexchange.com/ 

-Original Message-
From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:26 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: FW: Letter from Sunbelt CEO: GFI Acquires Sunbelt
Software

 Today, it was announced that Sunbelt Software has been
acquired by GFI
 Software. The new combined entity will provide a wide range of
 security
and
 infrastructure software solutions, both on-premise and in the
cloud.
 View the press release here:
 http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Press/Releases/?id=362

 This Wednesday, July 14th, GFI's CEO, Walter Scott and I will
be
 holding a webinar to discuss the transaction, which we invite
you to
 attend. The
details
 of the webinar are as follows:

 CEO webinar for Partners: GFI's new acquisition
 Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010
 Time: 11:30am Eastern Time
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 First, let me say that we're thrilled to be part of the GFI
team.
Throughout
 our discussions and interactions with GFI, we have been
continually
 impressed with their dedication to quality, customer service
and
 superior performance throughout the company. Both companies
are
 similar in their attitudes and practices with regard to
customer
 service, product quality, strategic vision, organizational
styles and culture.

 On the technology side, the acquisition allows us to expand
into
 several areas, which we believe are essential for us to grow
as a
 company and continue to provide leading-edge technologies to
our
 partners. These areas include vulnerability assessment, patch
 management, data leakage prevention, hosted/cloud-based
technologies, and MSP solutions.

 No specific plans have been made yet in terms of product
integration
 strategies, but we are working with the GFI team to identify
areas
 where their technologies would complement our offerings.

 In addition to the technology side, GFI provides additional
resources
 in
terms
 of capital, management expertise, systems and new markets that
will
 continue to propel our products and our teams to the highest
level of
 achievement possible.

 For the time being, both companies are hard at work,
integrating the
various
 sales, marketing, finance, and technology teams. Our goal is
to make
 the combination of the companies as seamless as possible to
you, and
 we will continue to provide you with updates and information
as we
 work to combine the organizations. For now, nothing changes in
how you
 do business with Sunbelt.

 We appreciate your trust in us as a partner and will continue
to work
 hard
to