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A look at two of the signing technologies PayPal plans to use to improve sent email authentication, which would allow ISPs to drop each email that isn't properly verified. There's a lot of new research that will be revealed at this year's gathering of security pros, says RSA chief security strategist Tim Mather. Above and below. Left and right. In front and behind you. Use multi-dimensional security to fend off attackers, no matter where they come from. MessageLab's CEO and co-founder are determined to get a bigger slice of the American pie. Paul Fisher meets two men on a mission. Instant messaging should be treated like email, with similar constraints. The idea that you can stop consumers copying electronic media doesn't hold water. But people will still try. You wouldn't post your home address on a public website. You should be just as careful with your work email address. The concept of organisations keeping a watchful eye on employees during company hours is nothing new. Spam clogging up the server was only the start. A sound email policy is the only way to handle security breaches and compliance. It's easy to make email appear to come from an internal user, warns Ken Munro. So be on the lookout. No one questions that email is universally adopted. It is in the mainstream. And despite the huge advantages of personal and corporate productivity, the open nature of the internet has made email vulnerable to interception and even alteration by malicious parties. As the risks to the privacy and security of email messaging have grown, so have efforts to protect it. Anti-spam and anti-virus are undeniable necessities, but today's threat landscape has changed, requiring multiple layers of security technologies to keep business-critical email flowing. Email security is more than simply anti-spam and anti-virus. It's time to put true preemptive protection in email security.