ANTI-SPAM
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Save bandwidth - Up to 90% of today's email is spam
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Save time - Eliminating spam helps employees to get on with their work without having to "find" legitimate emails.
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Save money - On average, receiving, storing, manually identifying and deleting spam costs US$0.04 per spam message. That may not sound like much, but the average user receives approximately 20,000 spam messages a year.
ANTI-VIRUS
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be protected - Email is favoured by hackers and criminals to deliver malicious code or to lure recipients to unsafe Web sites.
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Save money - Diagnosing and fixing a computer virus infection can cost thousands of dollars.
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Save time - A virus infection can severely disrupt an email system, potentially resulting in lost revenue.
CONTENT FILTERING
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Save bandwidth - Large attachments or messages with non-business attachments, such as MP3's, reduce bandwidth.
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Provide a safe and productive workplace - Employers are obligated to provide a safe workplace for employees, free from harassment and exposure to inappropriate material. Message Shield filters messages containing offensive language or non-business content.
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Preserve your reputation - Business email is like electronic letterhead. It is binding and reflects directly on the organization.
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Secure confidential information - Information is a critical asset.
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Custom, policy-based email filtering.
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Automatic management incoming or outgoing email based on rules. For example:
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Block oversize messages
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Block offensive email containing profanity or derogatory remarks
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Restrict outgoing email containing confidential information
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Reports that measure policy effectiveness and identify problem employees.
IMAGE ANALYSIS
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Provide a safe and productive workplace - Offensive images can lead to legal liability, resulting from employee exposure to explicit content.
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Preserve your reputation
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Pornographic image filtering.
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Analysis of images embedded or attached to email messages, blocking pornographic content.
COMMERCIAL BENEFITS
There is a strong business case for a business to hosted email services. But why would customers turn to outsourcing their email security? What are the benefits to them? What is the return on their investment?
Major industry analysts such as Gartner, IDC and Frost & Sullivan forecast that the managed email security market is set to explode in the near future. This is primarily because of spam and the immediate benefits that can be found in a “mail scrubbing” service which removes spam and viruses before those messages reach the customer’s email network.
Here are some of the reasons and benefits why customers are turning to managed security and how they can realize a return on their investment:
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Blocking spam at the service provider level means that the customer is receiving a “clean” email stream free from spam, viruses, phishing and spyware. This means that the customer can be more confident that their email is free of risks and enjoy the benefits of using email without many of the disadvantages.
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Blocking spam upstream means that the customer may see anything from a 60 percent to 90 percent reduction in their overall incoming email. Most customers today will be seeing about 80% of their incoming email as spam. By eliminating up to 99.9% of these messages with MailMarshal SPE the customer will be receiving far less email volumes and making a substantial saving on their bandwidth and storage/archive costs.
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Outsourcing means that the customer incurs no upfront hardware costs. This assists with the budgeting process and means that the customer doesn’t have associated costs such as actually operating additional hardware, maintaining it, servicing it and powering it. The customer doesn’t have to set it up, unpack it or find room for it in their office. They just subscribe to the service and that’s it.
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The customer benefits from expertise and resources in email security management. This means they do not have to employ specialist technical staff to manage their own in-house email security resources. They also benefit from the knowledge and resources from the service provider to ensure their email’s protection.
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Rather than finding the headcount budget to employ email security administration staff, customers can use the funds to employ IT staff for their own proactive and positive projects such as roll-outs, new developments and projects that will actually add to their bottom line.
