E-mail Security
Most users of e-mail technology are by now familiar with the nuisance of unwanted and unsolicited e-mails, known commonly as "SPAM." Several years ago, the average person would receive at most maybe one or two such messages per week.
Today, it is not uncommon for the majority of messages that one receives to be SPAM. Even a few spam e-mail messages per day per person can add up to significant losses for an organization (Total Cost of SPAM). It is very important for your organization to assess your current e-mail systems to see what the impact of the influx of spam and malicious e-mails is on your bottom line, and in order to take the appropriate level of action to deal with the problem in an effective manner, both in terms of cost and in terms of maintaining the smooth flow of critical communications.
E-mail Security Audit Service
We can help you determine the current state of your e-mail systems with regards to e-mail security via the following analysis reports:
Threat Assessment to determine the level of risk that exists with your current e-mail systems
Impact Analysis in case of loss/degradation of e-mail services
Dependency Analysis to determine how dependent your organization is on your e-mail systems
Risk Managemement Analysis to determine what your level of preparedness in case of e-mail system failure and in dealing with potential legal problems or damage to your organization's reputation
The following information will be collected and used in the above analyses:
How many incoming and outgoing messages you receive per day
Where the incoming messages to your organization come from
What percentage of messages are identified as SPAM
What percentage of messages contain known viruses
Whether intellectual property belonging to your organization is being sent out and to whom
We will then deliver a detailed report that will compare the cost of ownership of your current e-mail systems, including hardware, software, network, human resources, and lost productivity costs with the potential return on investment (ROI) you'll see if you implement a properly secured e-mail system.
Essentially we can tailor an e-mail security audit to meet your specific needs. We obtain the information needed by incorporating an appliance in front of your e-mail infrastructure in passive-mode for a specific period of time to monitor your mail traffic. We will generate a detailed report at the end of the audit period that will give you a concrete understanding of what your organization's e-mail picture looks like, including the costs incurred by you in dealing with spam and viruses. Based on this we can recommend a tailored solution for you that will drastically reduce the costs to your organization of dealing with e-mail security both in terms of productivity costs and in terms of monetary costs in infrastructure and human resources.
For more service, please contact us at ironport@xsmsystems.com.
In recent years, e-mail, one of the most useful tools for communications within organizations has been increasingly under attack. Because of the openness inherent in the protocols of e-mail technology, organizations that have not yet adjusted to the realities of today's Internet risk incurring significant costs to their businesses. When e-mail was originally designed nobody thought that it would be used for malicious purposes. Nowadays, unless an organization takes tangible steps to safeguard their e-mail systems, they are putting their business at risk in a number of ways. XSM Systems has partnered with the leading e-mail security products provider in order to give our customers the needed tools to secure this important asset.
Run some numbers through our anti-spam ROI calculator to get an idea of how much spam could be costing your organization in lost productivity.
Another serious problem caused by spam is that the sheer volume of incoming messages can bog down the servers that process e-mail, grinding legitimate communications to a halt. So not only is your organization losing money, literally, from lost productivity caused by the employees of your organization having to identify and delete the spam in their inboxes, but you are also vulnerable to losing important incoming messages and communications (such as for instance a request from a potential customer for a product quote) because your systems just can't keep up with the volume of messages. Even if you do not lose the messages, you can experience significant delays ranging from minutes to days in receiving critical messages. This results in a tangible and very real degradation in the productivity of your organization and in your competitive advantage.
The problem of e-mail servers and infrastructure also increases the cost of managing and administering said servers and infrastructure, resulting in lost dollars and using up the time of your organization's IT administrators.
And last, but in no way least, the types of spam have evolved to become even more potentially dangerous for your organization. Where originally spam was used as a cheap marketing mechanism for the sender of the spam, nowadays the line between spam and viruses has blurred as hackers and spammers have started to use e-mail as the primary means for spreading viruses to infect the computers of e-mail users. Infected computers can become unusable, with data corruption being a very real possibility. Infected computers can also become "zombies", sending out spam or attempting to cause denial of service attacks to other computers. All of this causes tremendous costs to your bottom line and your productivity. There can even be liability issues involved if your systems cause damage to the infrastructure of other organizations or if data loss or service downtime causes loss to individuals and/or companies.
Clearly something has to be done to deal with this problem. XSM can help you assess your current situation (see the e-mail security audit service above), and we offer the most reliable, effective, and easily administered appliances to solve your e-mail security problems. Learn more about IronPort.
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