Antispam technologies have become commoditized with most vendors using 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 Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. “Every one of them has a 96% to 98% detection rate and there really isn’t new technology anymore.” (full article)
