Outsourced Spam Filtering Means no Maintenance Worries
Outsourcing your e-mail server and junk mail protection to a hosted solution reveals several advantages
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.
Internet is a core resource and a vital daily part of both business and private acitivities, however, if it suddenly consists of a lot of ilegitimate email-s and junk, then its becomes irritating and frustrating to both the IT department, the users and in the end the entire company.
With the spreading of web and easily accessible and comprehensible to every age group people, the volume of spam e-mail has exponentially increased and with that, the cost of cleaning unsolicited e-mails from inboxes. 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 unsolicited message delivered uses bandwidth and in some cases spam account for nearly 50% of the 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.
Spammer have set up their underground base with access to widespread networks of mail servers combined with advanced and custom technology. A number of studies have shown that spam are draining financial resources and posting security threats to organizations by exposing their networks to malware, spyware and other malicious codes.
These online threats highlight the need of installing effective hosted malware mail shields on mail servers to reduce operation costs and to protect networks from collapsing. Organisations can especially protect themselves better against online security issues using outsourced hosted servers and services.
Outsourcing to a hosted service offers several pros e.g. the freed time that companies regain and the fact that you no longer need to handle any technical software, hardware, integration and maintenance issues. 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:Philip Leo Hansen