The Help Tabloid

The gains of using an oursourced hosted unwanted-mail-blocking 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. Uderestimating the cost of removing junk e-mails is very common - people tend to believe that removing a spam e-mail just takes a couple of seconds. However, suddenly unwanted e-mails appear in huge numbers on a daily basis consuming valuable time and user’s concentration.

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. All ilegitimate mails submitted consumes bandwidth and often spam mails account for as much as 50% of the entire network consumption.

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.

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.

These online threats highlight the need of installing effective hosted unwanted message shields on e-mail servers to reduce operation costs and to protect networks from collapsing. 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 trouble filtering the users’ inboxes on a daily basis is now handled by the outsourced hosted service, and it adds valuable and understandable information about the entire process for non-technical users.

Author:Martin Faklor