Posted on Friday, May 28th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Antispam technologies have become commoditized with most vendors offering up a mixed cocktail of techniques to filter out unwanted email and identify and block incoming messages containing malicious code. “It’s difficult to tell one vendor from another,” said Chenxi Wang, principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. “Every one of them have a 96% to 98% detection rate and there really isn’t a new technology anymore.” Wang, who evaluated email filtering providers last year for the Forrester Wave, found most vendors offering similar features that include email reputation, content filtering and policy management. The vendors that stand out offer good email archiving, encryption and e-discovery capabilities, she said. Most enterprises can pick and choose a cloud-based service provider without worrying about integration issues, Wang said.
