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No sooner had I posted about the abysmal 88.blacklist.zap, that I now find our mail servers at the mercy of BarracudaCentral.  Yet again, here is an organization totally unwilling to work with fellow mail administrators and unresponsive to phone calls or requests for information.  I have no idea how, when or why my domains have […]

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Well, I just had my first interaction with 88.blacklist.zap informing me that one of my E-mail messages had been blocked because mail from my mail server IP address was banned.  News to me!  Well, first things first.  I already subscribe to one of the best monitoring and management systems around called MxToolbox.  They informed me […]

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This is an endpoint security system originally written by Okena (formerly named StormWatch Agent), which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2003 and is focused on intrusion prevention. We took our first look at the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) in 2007 as we were working on a project plan for Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) […]

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While we continue to investigate for a replacement technology, I have found yet another disturbing problem with MailEssentials.  It turns out, that under certain circumstances we have yet to identify, that the product will report that it is blocking an E-mail message, but it will still deliver that message to the user. We changed all […]

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After reading about all the hype on Cuil, I just had to check it out.  At first, they were having technical difficulties with server load and other issues.  While that was a little frustrating, it also showed that these ex-Google engineers didn’t spend enough time or thought on a supportable infrastructure before such a large […]

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Ninja Blade

July 26, 2008 · 2 comments

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Review of the Ninja Blade appliance from Sunbelt Software.

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