Control Tomorrow's Spam Risks Today: Using Machine Learning to Beat Spam

Proofpoint Webinar Replay

Download this webinar replay to learn more about the latest inbound email threats, recent spam trends and Proofpoint's latest technology innovations for accurately identifying spam, phishing attacks and other email-borne threats.

Spam expert Steve Eddy discusses some of the newest spam techniques, the continued rise of botnets, targeted attacks such as spear phishing scams, threats from social media, the need for outbound spam detection and how you can protect your organization, email system and end users.

Also, Proofpoint senior software engineer Vipul Sharma explains some of the basics of machine learning (sometimes referred to as "artificial intelligence") and discusses how Proofpoint uniquely applies these advanced statistical techniques to the problem of fighting spam and other email-borne threats.

During Control Tomorrow's Spam Risks Today you will learn about:

• The latest spam trends and techniques used by spammers and scammers and the rise of cybercriminal syndicates

• An update on targeted malicious attacks like spear phishing, whaling and personalized spam

• How social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are being used and spoofed to deliver spam and steal data

• What you can do to protect your organization from users unknowingly sending out spam from your network

• Proofpoint’s patent-pending machine learning techniques that analyze millions of messages and message attributes to deliver the industry’s highest effectiveness against spam and automatically adjust to identify even the newest spam attacks