The Anti Spam Challenge - Minimizing False Positives

He is Chief Technology Officer at CipherTrust, the industry's largest provider of enterprise email security. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. In conclusion, it is imperative that false positives be kept to an absolute minimum for business users. Although consumers may have more patience with incorrectly blocked email, businesses cannot afford these types of problems. An effective, accurate anti spam solution aggregates multiple spam detection technologies, combining the benefits of each individual technique to stop spam while minimizing false positives.

Spammer in the Slammer: Jeremy Jaynes Sentenced to Nine Years

He is Chief Technology Officer at CipherTrust, the industry's largest provider of enterprise email security. Spammers work on the law of averages, which would seem like an odd strategy considering that the average response rate for a spam message is just one-tenth of one percent. The economics of spamming makes Jaynes' decision to build a career of it understandable, though not noble. However, once you do the math even this miniscule response rate can make one very wealthy very quickly. If a spammer sends one million messages pushing a product width a $40 profit, a response rate of 0.