Outsourcing your e-mail server and anti-spam filtering to a hosted providor reveals several advantages
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.
Web spreads out widely and is now available for everybody in all age groups, which has a huge impact on the amount of spam mails and following that, an increased cost using time and resources to clear junk and ilegitimate mail from the mail boxes. The cost of deleting spam is usually underestimated by people as it takes a couple of seconds to remove a spam e-mail from inbox. But even imagine a situation of removing tens or hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails could be fearsome.
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 unsolicited message delivered uses bandwidth and in some cases spam account for nearly 50% of the 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. Furthermore, governments at all levels – local and regional – have tried to implement legislation aimed at spammers, unfortunately this has not helped fight spam sufficiently as spammers are able to continue their criminal activities using the latest and most advanced technologies.
Spammer have set up their underground base with access to widespread networks of mail servers combined with advanced and custom technology. 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 severe security issues calls for effective outsourced malware message shields for e-mail servers in order to be able to prevent the security threat and reduce operation costs. Organisations can especially protect themselves better against online security issues using outsourced hosted servers and services.
One strong feature of employing outsourced hosted server is time saving as companies do not need to be worry about hardware/software integration and maintenance of installed equipments. 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 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:Philip Leo Hansen