If you've got a spare box, my recommendation is Maia Mailguard. It's simply top-notch, and many commercial products use the underlying tech (especially SpamAssassin) as part of their offerings - including Barracuda.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 05:24, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > I am currently tasked to get rid of our ineffective Symantec Mail Security > which is, at the moment, our only anti-spam defense (besides Outlook's junk > mail folder). We have about 500 users running on Exchange 2007 with several > different domains. > > I have trawled the archives of the list getting some suggestions for various > appliances/software/hosted solutions. I was wondering what the community > considered to be the best configuration for an org of our size. Our problems > with Symantec are that if it is turned down, we have too much spam getting > through, and when turned up high, it is still letting enough spam through to > be annoying whilst pulling out some rather important false positives. Cost > is not usually too much of an issue for us (we have ESX, Citrix MPS4, > XenApp, AppSense, SCOM and SCCM amongst our chunkier products), but if there > is something cheaper (especially for non-profits), that could be factored > in. I'd also be interested in anything that did antivirus as well, as I am > not convinced by Symantec's products at all. > > Do most people favour the belt-and-braces solution for smaller orgs - a > hosted solution or appliance at the edge and software running on Exchange? > Or are there any products out there that do the job well enough on their > own? From looking at the archives it seems that IronPort and > the-product-formerly-known-as-Ninja are two of the most highly recommended. > Does anyone have any particular recommendations for hosted solutions - > MessageLabs seems to be quite highly-rated, and I'm tempted by the pricing > of Google's offering. > > Finally, I was wondering if any of MS' products (like ForeFront) are worth a > look? > > Sorry for rambling on, all advice, hints, tips, gratefully received and > compiled. > > > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
