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The gains of using an oursourced hosted anti-junk mail server.

When the volume of spam mail increases - spam mails that take a great amount of a business’ financial resources and consumes bandwidth - outsourced hosted mail server would free them frim this issue and help them refocus on core business.

Internet is a core resource and a vital daily part of both business and private acitivities, however, if it suddenly consists of a lot of ilegitimate email-s and junk, then its becomes irritating and frustrating to both the IT department, the users and in the end the entire 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. 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.

Spam e-mails are not only annoying in nature, but they also have significant impact on the operation cycle of a company since they drain network resources and use 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. 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.

Spammer have set up their underground base with access to widespread networks of mail servers combined with advanced and custom technology. A number of studies have shown that spam are draining financial resources and posting security threats to organizations by exposing their networks to malware, spyware and other malicious codes.

Such security threats stress the need to implement advanced junk filtering on hosted 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.

Outsourcing to a hosted service offers several pros e.g. the freed time that companies regain and the fact that you no longer need to handle any technical software, hardware, integration and maintenance issues. Professional personnel monitor their systems day and night and makes sure every single unwanted mail is blocked and quarantined passing only legitimate e-mails to the the end users’ inbox.

The hassle of clearing user inbox everyday rests with the outsourced hosted server, which also provides valuable information that makes the process understandable to less tech-friendly users.

Author:Philip Leo Hansen