Outsourced Email Spam Protection - 
 

New Proofpoint-powered email security service Proofpoint and MessageOne announced the availability of comprehensive outsourced spam and virus protection through a managed service powered by Proofpoint technology. MessageOne's new EMS Email Security service is based on the Proofpoint Protection Server software, providing MessageOne customers with full protection against inbound message-borne threats. MessageOne's EMS suite of managed services is designed to maximize email continuity for enterprise customers. With the rapid increase of spam and virus attacks facing enterprise environments, the company has extended its email continuity services by providing all-in-one protection from security threats and email downtime in an easy-to-adopt, fully managed solution. EMS combines Proofpoint's best-of-breed messaging security solutions with MessageOne's EMS platform to create a managed service that is unique in the market. Security: Guarding the castle Outsourcing security doesn't necessarily mean giving away the keys to the kingdom. Rachel Lebihan talks to CIOs who have handed over the gatekeeping to others. Call it a momentary lapse of judgement or a case of being swept along by the outsourcing wave. But Westpac's decision to relinquish IT security to an external provider is something chief information security officer David Backley had been trying to rectify for years. With IT security now back under the bank's control, and a tempestuous period with its outsourcing partner behind it, Backley has been reflecting upon where the Australian bank went wrong. Easing internal pressures by outsourcing some aspects of security, yet retaining responsibility for safeguarding a company's confidential information, its ability to transact electronically and its reputation requires the achievement of a delicate balance. iPhone Fever Reading up on the Apple iPhone, I'm not seeing what's so exciting about it, and I'm even tempted to say that the thing is going to sink like a lead balloon and everybody who's jazzing about it now is going to feel foolish in a year. It's a cell phone that's also an iPod that does the Internet and takes pictures. Why is that exciting? I already have a cell phone and an iPod, and my cell phone—a 14-month-old Palm Treo 650—is Internet-enabled and a camera phone, too. I grant you there will be a huge attraction, for some people, in combining their iPods and cell phones into a single device. But, still, nothing about the iPhone is convincing me it'll slay dragons. But that's just my view. Feel free to join the chorus of dissenters. Also check the views of some of my colleagues: Stephen Wellman and John Welch.