Third Party Spam Filtering Means no Maintenance Worries
Hosted guard against unwanted mail and/or mail lets you focus on what is important.
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.
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. It is very common to underestimate the cost of getting rid of spam – the reason is that is just takes a couple of seconds to remove one single spam e-mail. But when spam mails suddenly appear in hundres or thousands on a daily basis it becomes a serious problem – consuming time and users’ focus.
Junk mails are more than just irritating in their nature, they also put significant stress on the entire operation of a company because they occupy network and waste bandwidth. Every single spam message increases bandwidth cost – worst case spam consumes more than 48% 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. Moreover, governments at both national and regional levels have taken strict action against spamming by implementing legislations but their efforts have proved insufficient as cyber criminals continue to thrive on their successful experiments with new technologies.
Those who submit spam mails have build their community consisting of several networkds of hosted servers and advanced attack techniques. 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.
Such security threats stress the need to implement advanced spam 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.
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. Qualified and skilled professionals keep round the clock watch on their systems and ensure complete elimination of spam before sending e-mails to their networks.
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:Martin Faklor
