On 4 May 2010 at 16:38, Roger Wright wrote: > I think the difference is where you want to do your filtering. > > With significantly smaller environments than yours, I opted to move > filtering to the cloud with Postini for two organizations and it was > great. The threats and junk are removed before they hit your circuit > - 90+% of incoming SMTP traffic never makes it to the network edge. > Postini uses McAfee for threat management and their spam filters are > very good. We operated with them set to max; a few false positives > here but users can easily manage their own quarantines and sender > lists.
IANAL, but ISTM that if you have your antispam in the cloud, that stuff never hits your network and so doesn't have to be archived. If you do your own AS filtering, you might have to start archiving it at some point if there is a discovery motion against you. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
