Unsolicited Email on the Increase!!!

Unsolicited electronic mail or spam has increased dramatically in the past year and now accounts for approximately 80 percent of all e-mail messages across global networks.

Spam email can overwhelm your company’s email infrastructure, waste employee time, and jeopardize confidential information - no longer a problem that can be ignored by business owners or IT managers, Spam can cause any number of problems to IT networks, however the main concerns usually raised are:

• Time: Rising volumes of spam reduce the usefulness of email by forcing users and IT staff to expend additional time to identify, store, and delete junk email.
• Cost: Spam is driving an exponential growth in email infrastructure and IT management costs by overwhelming and exceeding the capacity of email gateway systems, mail transfer agents (MTAs), email storage servers, groupware servers, and bandwidth.
• Compliance: Corporate governance and regulatory compliance pressures are driving awareness that an organization’s inbound and outbound content must be free of inappropriate content.

A number of vendors provide solutions with Comcity recommending either Symantec Hosted Mail Security or Mcafee Secure Messaging Service. The two well known names in Anti Virus and Anti Spyware also provide excellent products in order to fight spam on a hosted level. Comcity can provide advice and information on the right solution for your business.

There are a number of anti-spam solutions available however a hosted solution can provide many benefits that other solutions cannot. A hosted solution means no software or hardware installation and a greater level of protection. Unwanted mail is stopped before it enters your network as opposed to preventing the unwanted mail from being delivered but still having it on your exchange taking up bandwidth and hard drive space - a solution the majority of Anti-spam products currently provide.

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