Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance X1050 Guide D’Information
What is Cisco Anti−Spam's catch rate,
false−positive rate, and throughput?
false−positive rate, and throughput?
Document ID: 118198
Contributed by Chris Haag and Stephan Bayer, Cisco TAC Engineers.
Aug 07, 2014
Aug 07, 2014
Contents
Question
Question
What is Cisco Anti−Spam's catch rate, false−positive rate, and throughput?
The Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and the Anti−Spam engine are optimized around minimizing
false−positives.
false−positives.
Cisco's target is to have a false−positive rate of less than one in a million and a catch−rate of greater than
97%.
97%.
Note: Cisco Anti−Spam's throughput will vary based on how the ESAs are configured and the hardware
resources available to process the required throughput.
resources available to process the required throughput.
The actual catch rate and false−positive rate will vary by region and mailflow.
Updated: Aug 07, 2014
Document ID: 118198