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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Outsourced Unwanted Message Filtering Means no Issues

The advantages of using an oursourced hosted anti-spam mail server.

The amount of spam continues to go up and this means that a large share of an organisation’s capital resources and bandwidth are “stolen” from them. Outsourcing their e-mail to a hosted service will help them get their resources back and re-spend them on productivity.

You need the Internet for your daily activities both privately and professionally, but when a major part of it contains unwanted e-mails and malware, is suddenly is a factor that creates stress and frustration for the entire organisation from IT administrators to end users.

The world wide web continues to spread out and becomes available to more and more people - young and old - spam follows this spread out trend resulting in increasing time and finansial resouces spend on filtering junk mail from legitimate mails. The cost of deleting spam is usually underestimated by people as it takes a couple of seconds to remove a spam e-mail from inbox. But even imagine a situation of removing tens or hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails could be fearsome.

Unwanted e-mails do not just play the role of being annoying, they have a major side effect on the performance of an entire organisation ocuupying network and abusing bandwidth. All ilegitimate mails submitted consumes bandwidth and often spam mails account for as much as 50% of the entire network consumption.

Organisations - from big corporations with internal dedicated department handling IT security to small and medium companies, that only use a small share of the yearly budget on online security - are suffering from a slow and unproductive network In addition, both national and regional governments have taken serious actions towards passing spam preventing legislation, however, their this has proven to be insufficent because World Wide Web crime continue to run with new and more andvanced technology.

Spam e-mailers have formed their own underground community equipped with networks of hosted computers and innovative attack methods. Studies clearly shows that junk mail steal vital financial and time resouces from businesses, add to that the increased threat from malware, spyware and virus exposed to the entire internal network.

Such security threats stress the need to implement advanced junk detecting on hosted e-mail servers to decrease the cost of operating and protecting the internal network from collapse. Organisations can especially protect themselves better against online security issues using outsourced hosted servers and services.

One strong feature of employing outsourced hosted server is time saving as companies do not need to be worry about hardware/software integration and maintenance of installed equipments. Professional personnel monitor their systems day and night and makes sure every single unwanted mail is blocked and quarantined passing only legitimate e-mails to the the end users’ inbox.

The responsibility removing all spam before it reaches the end users is now placed at the outsourced hosted mail server, and understanding the entire process is now much easier for less technical users.

Author:Julia Sue-Beck