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Hosted Spam Message Filtering Means no Maintenance Headaches

• November 2nd, 2009

The gains of using an oursourced hosted anti-junk email server.

With rising volume of spam e-mails that drain a substantial amount of companies financial resources and eat bandwidth, outsourced hosted server could give them freedom from this headache and increase their productivity.

Internet is a necessity and an inevitable part of day-to-day activities but when it becomes a source of unsolicited junk e-mails or spam, then it could be very annoying and distressful to both the network administrators and those who own or manage a company.

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.

Spam e-mails are not only annoying in nature, but they also have significant impact on the operation cycle of a company since they drain network resources and use bandwidth. Every single spam message increases bandwidth cost – worst case spam consumes more than 50% of your entire network.

Companies ranging from big names that have dedicated department of IT security to small enterprises, which spend a very small proportion of their annual budget on web security, are plagued by unproductive bandwidth. Furthermore, governments at all levels – local and regional – have tried to implement legislation aimed at spammers, unfortunately this has not helped fight spam sufficiently as spammers are able to continue their criminal activities using the latest and most advanced technologies.

Those who submit spam mails have build their community consisting of several networkds of hosted servers and advanced attack techniques. 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.

These severe security issues calls for effective outsourced junk e-mail shields for mail servers in order to be able to prevent the security threat and reduce operation costs. Oursourcing all mail services can especialy help companies to remove the online threats caused by spam.

A strong argument for using outsourced hosted services for mail is the amount of time companies save becayse the no longer have to worry about handling hardware, software, integration and maintenance of the spam filter. Trained and experienced personnel keep and eye on their systems 24/7 and ensure removal of all spam before it is passed to the company’s internal network and the end users.

The hassle of clearing user inbox everyday rests with the outsourced hosted server, which also provides valuable information that makes the process understandable to less tech-friendly users.

Author:Philip Leo Hansen