Unsolicited email, or spam, is widespread and everyone receives it. Some of it is offensive and most of it is just annoying. Senders of spam do not care how many messages they send out or whether those addresses are targeted to potential customers. The marginal cost of sending to an extra address on their lists is zero.

Today, over 95% of all e-mail traffic on the Internet is spam. Spammers have grown increasingly sophisticated, using innovative methods to trick spam filters and penetrate email inboxes. The majority of spam and malware are sent by networks of compromised computers ("botnets") that launch millions of distributed attacks without the user's knowledge. To make matters worse, new classes of spam are extremely difficult to detect and harmful, containing spoofed addresses, rapidly-mutating images and embedded links to malware sites.

Traditional spam filters that rely on static rules, traffic patterns or heuristics have been ineffective against advanced messaging threats due to their slow response time and tendency towards high positives. In order to win the war against spam, businesses must use a real-time defense system that can instantly respond to evolving attack vectors.

Advantages of Filtering:

• Comprehensive protection against spam, phishing and viruses
• Language and content-agnostic analysis stops spam in all languages
• Through 24 x 7 monitoring, the Global Threat Network ensures the fastest response to new spam outbreaks as well as highly-targeted phishing attacks and virus outbreaks
• Advanced Message Fingerprinting algorithms detect variants and rapidly mutating attacks before they reach e-mail inboxes

Administrator and User Controls:

• Users can add senders, domains, and IPs to their safelist to ensure that email from these senders is never filtered as spam
• Users can add senders, domains, and IPs to their blacklist to ensure that email from these senders is always filtered as spam
• Users have several options for handling email once it is flagged as spam
• Users can choose the exclusive setting, which allows them to block email from senders outside of their safelist
• Administrators can also manage global spam preferences, safelists, and blacklists at the domain and the user level

For a free trial (installation costs may apply) please contact us for a no obligation quote.