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Tom_9252
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Jan 08, 2016

Suggestions for dealing with SMTP brute force attacks with ASM/PSM

We are in the process of firing up a shiny new ASM solution, and in doing so one of the areas we are looking for help in mitigating is SMTP brute force login attacks. I know that the ASM (or I guess...
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Chris_Grant
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Feb 01, 2016

Hey Tom, welcome to the wonderful world of ASM. PSM is actually part of AFM now. Our SMTP protection is not nearly as comprehensive as our HTTP protection. Your best bet for this would be to contact support (and your account team) and ask them to open a request for enhancement to add brute force protection to the SMTP security module.