Why Should you Care

The usefulness of your email is increasingly threatened by the five mentioned blights: email bombardment, spamming, phishing, hacking and email viruses and  ‘worms’.  These threats have de-valued email to the point where many see it as a curse rather than a blessing – a ‘constant drizzle of junk’.

Every year companies spend billions of dollars on email security, anti-spam, anti-virus and other preventative technologies. Many of these technologies and security measures are out of reach for some businesses as they are either cost-prohibitive or too complex to manage with their in-house resources. Additionally, many organisations are looking to shed themselves of the burden of in-house email security and are turning to the expertise and benefits of outsourcing and managed service providers.

Respected industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan predicts that managed email services will be worth US$825 million by 2012 and constitute more than 31% of the global email filtering market.

Like wise the same issues exist with your company opening up to the internet every day. As well as the vulnerability that your network faces from un-regulated access to the internet, the productivity of your staff can be quietly yet significantly affected by internet access surreptitiously - without you having any idea, much less managing it. This doesn’t even take into account the massive toll such activity can take chewing up expensive company bandwidth. Staff can kill many hours on popular social networks, music, gambling, auction sites, and accessing pornographic material to name just a few popular time-killing activities. Unless internet traffic and usage in managed and monitored –a business is totally vulnerable.