Messaging intelligence not anti-spam says vendor

Singapore-based email security vendor TrustSphere has recently appointed Mark Padginton to represent their products in Australia and New Zealand. Padginton has held various security-related roles in Auckland before moving to Sydney.

The company is best known for its LogiQ solution, which isn't another anti-spam solution, but a false positive protection system - although the company prefers the term "Messaging Intelligence".

It uses a custom-developed engine to improve the accuracy of spam filtering systems, essentially building a reputation network of trusted relationships from various sources, including from the organisation's very own Microsoft Exchange server. This reputation network is then used to identify false positives in the enterprise's anti-spam system's logs. LogiQ then notifies the anti-spam system to release the mis-identified emails.

A false positive is an email incorrectly identified by your anti-spam system as spam, when in fact it's legitimate.

Gartner says that a rate of 1 in 400,000 false positives is acceptable, but TrustSphere's new ANZ Sales Director Mark Padginton is encountering many organisations in the region with rates significantly above that level.

The software doesn't look at the content of the emails, but just at header information, which reduces the security implications of this approach. The information can also be displayed visually for management to see key email relationships, and for internal security investigations.

LogiQ is sold as a virtual machine for VMware but is now available as a SaaS hosted in the company's secure cloud.

You can contact Mark from TrustSphere here or more information visit their website here.