Video Interview with Jamie de Guerre, Cloudmark
Have you been receiving emails from Eastern European women who want to sell you "enlargement" cream? Viagra? Perhaps someone has caught you naked on video lately? Or you've been contacted by Nigerian princes who want to give you millions of dollars if you just send them 50 grand?
As amusing as they can be at times (believe me, I get a good chuckle out of them once in a while), these are just a few of the messages you may be receiving by the hundreds, if not thousands, if your ISP or hosting provider isn't using the right precautions to filter out and block spam from reaching your server and, ultimately, your inbox on a daily basis.
In comes a company like Cloudmark.
Cloudmark says it currently protects over 600 million inboxes across the globe through its advanced message fingerprinting technology and global threat network and is the most widely-integrated messaging security solution on carrier infrastructures worldwide.
WHIRtv recently sat down with Jamie de Guerre, CTO of Cloudmark (and fellow Canuck!) and got the inside on how the technology works and how big of an "epidemic" spam really is today.
Anastasia Tubanos was a writer, producer and host for theWHIR TV. She is a Graduate of The Ryerson University School of Journalism in Toronto. Her archive blog covers web hosting events, industry insight and extensive interviews of the Web hosting industry's greatest minds.... (Read full bio)
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