On September 21, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") published a guidance document for email administrators and those developing security policies for enterprise email structures that provides recommendations for deployment and configuration of state-of-the-art email security technologies to detect and prevent phishing attacks and other malicious email messages. The guidance's abstract stated that the guideline applies to federal IT systems and will also be useful for small or medium-sized organizations.

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