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August 10th, 2006, 09:14 PM
"Every year a quarter of the students are moving on, so those e-mail addresses are no longer valid," explained Andres Kohn, vice president for product management for Proofpoint. "That huge churn creates a lot of garbage aimed at invalid addresses, which is why universities usually have a higher percentage of spam than most other organizations."
While returning to school may only be a fleeting thought for most students at this time of year, it's top of mind for the folks charged with keeping university networks free from a host of electronic nasties.
"Fall is definitely the worst time for viruses and things wrong with computers on the network," Tim Cantin, IT Director for Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass., told the E-Commerce Times.
Colleges and universities have some unique security TechNet Security Center: Tools & Guidance to Defend Your Network problems facing their networks, noted Andres Kohn, vice president for product management for Proofpoint, of Cupertino, Calif., a provider of anti-spam and e-mail security software for large enterprises.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/security/52282.html
While returning to school may only be a fleeting thought for most students at this time of year, it's top of mind for the folks charged with keeping university networks free from a host of electronic nasties.
"Fall is definitely the worst time for viruses and things wrong with computers on the network," Tim Cantin, IT Director for Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass., told the E-Commerce Times.
Colleges and universities have some unique security TechNet Security Center: Tools & Guidance to Defend Your Network problems facing their networks, noted Andres Kohn, vice president for product management for Proofpoint, of Cupertino, Calif., a provider of anti-spam and e-mail security software for large enterprises.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/security/52282.html