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Hosted spam-filter and/or e-mail lets you concentrate on what is essential.

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

Organisations – from big corporations with internal dedicated department handling IT security to small and medium companies, that only use a small share of the yearly budget on online security – are suffering from a slow and unproductive network In addition, both national and regional governments have taken serious actions towards passing spam preventing legislation, however, their this has proven to be insufficent because World Wide Web crime continue to run with new and more andvanced technology.

Spam e-mailers have formed their own underground community equipped with networks of hosted computers and innovative attack methods. Analysis shows that spam drain both time and financial resources and organisations face security issues because they expose their internal network to e.g. malware, spyware and trojahns.

Such security threats stress the need to implement advanced junk removal on hosted e-mail servers to decrease the cost of operating and protecting the internal network from collapse. 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 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