While spam is still a problem, it’s not growing at the same rate it once was and my actually be on the decline, according to Cisco. In contrast, targeted attacks are on the rise which has led to the creation of new email security services that Cisco is officially announcing today.
The Cisco Business Class Email solution takes aim at the new era of threats with authentication and filtering technologies that protect against targeted attacks and provide user authentication capabilities.
“Cisco Business Class Email is an appliance based solution and it’s pretty cool, we use it internally,” Cisco spokesperson Omar Sultan told InternetNews.com. “It has single sign-on, secure forwarding and it’s platform independent so it works with your smartphone, laptop and desktop to get consistent security capabilities.”