Email Filtering

Over 90% of the email traffic today is SPAM. It is just unbelievable to know that the most critical communication method is functioning with 10% of actual useful email traffic. The amount of SPAM can actually be higher than 90% if SPAM is not filtered by excellent spam filtering services as actual SPAM emails are the biggest source of more SPAM considering spammers send emails to random and unknown email addresses and when the users actually get them and click on the link included, they confirm the existence of the email address and so invite more SPAM. SPAM is not only waste of bandwidth if your users were to receive all the junk emails but also potential security risk. Phishing is just one by-product of SPAM at the hands of which millions of pounds are being lost every year. So it is quite clear how important it is to filter out junk emails.

Also, most viruses today have email as the means of spreading itself as it is the easiest and fastest way for viruses to spread. Businesses today can’t afford downtime due to virus outbreaks as it costs them in lost productivity.

Traditional vs Hosted

At the time when SPAM and threat of viruses by email was a new thing, there were and still today there are quite a few solutions which are traditionally required to be installed on your premises and some of them do really good job. However such solutions only come into picture once all emails (SPAM, legitimate emails, and virus infected emails) are delivered to your servers. This is quite high risk method and not to mention the resources required to process them if your company has high amount of inbound emails. That’s why the online or the hosted services have proven more successful and widely accepted. Online filtering services make sure you only get legitimate emails and all SPAM and virus infected emails are filtered out well before they reach your servers.

Cloud IT offers world class Antivirus and AntiSPAM filtering services for emails in partnership with Star Technologies, the founder of MessageLabs. The main benefits are as below.

• No overhead or upfront cost
• Customizable white and blacklist
• Excellent reporting
• Security of email against SPAM, viruses, phishing, malware and spyware
• Outbound email filtering for regulatory compliance
• Service completely managed by Cloud IT

Web Content Filtering

It is very important to understand how critical it is to filter the Internet access in a workplace. Obviosuly this depends on the particular business you are in but in general there are often ignored risks if the Internet access is not monitored and then filtered correctly. Not all employees are computer wizards and knowingly or unknowingly they can invite a virus or a trojan on your business network. With more and more applications moving towards the Cloud Computing platform, it is becoming ever so important to protect your network against spyware, malware viruses. With increase in social networking over the Internet, the productivity of employees is always a concern for any business as the lost productivity means loss of revenue. This is another reason why businesses should filter and analyse the Internet access by their employees.
 
Cloud IT offers excellent web content filtering service which is hosted on a service provider's platform and is completely managed. It provides excellent policy based filtering which puts you in control to decide what is allowed and what is not. Granular analysis produces excellent and meaningful reports for monitoring Internet access usage patterns which can prevent any potential threat from becoming reality. Call us today and see  book for a 15 day trial for this service.