My point is that you're spending money on an internal AV product for mail (i.e. ScanMail or Antigen) plus the second layer at the gateway - either internal or external. My caution is geared towards those who think that they ONLY need the outsourcer for AV.
-------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:45 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: AV/Spam scanning services > > > It's not necessarily about saving money though right? Scanning at the > gateway (in-house or outsourced) can be a valid additional level of > protection. A significant number of our customers use some > form of gateway > scanner[1] in addition to their server and desktop based AV solutions. > > [1] MessageLabs, MailSweeper, Trend's Instercan, et al. > > > From: Roger Seielstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:10:22 -0400 > > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: AV/Spam scanning services > > > > There are some discussions of a few of them in the archives. > > > > Personally, I'm not a fan of outsourced anti-spam, but > that's in part > > because we're a heavily email dependent company and so we > can justify the > > expense of in house measures to combat those issues. > > > > As a side note - outsourced antivirus doesn't save money - > you still need to > > have an inhouse AV product for email, because scanning at > the gateway isn't > > enough. > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
