Effective Anti-Spam

Both viruses and spam are nuisances that come at a high cost to business – in lost productivity, revenue and resources. Implementing and managing an effective email filtering and spam service solution is a challenge that all businesses, both small and large, need to take on.

As an employer you have a legal responsibility to do all you can to reduce your employees' exposure to inappropriate content within spam emails by utilising spam services. Beyond this responsibility, an effort to reduce spam leads to increased employee productivity, frees up Internet bandwidth, and reduces load on IT infrastructure. Spam services can help you achieve these goals, but how do you know which spam services are appropriate for your company?

Move to MessageStream

As spam volume swells to proportions beyond the means of control for most overtaxed IT departments, the decision to outsource email filtering to a managed spam service is a matter of strategy and ROI. Using a specialised email protection and spam blocker provider like MessageStream, beyond preventing potentially damaging spam email messages and viruses from entering your business’s network, can dramatically reduce spam and the drain on resources – technical, financial and human. The benefits that a spam filter can bring to your company can be effective and unparalleled.

Of equal threat to resources and productivity, viruses can cause untold damage to your business network and your reputation. While almost all businesses have some form of spam blocker and virus protection in place already, the use of an email protection and spam services provider such as MessageStream adds extra layers of virus and spam protection, and takes the fight against potentially damaging emails safely away from your network.

Better technology

MessageStream offers anti-spam features and functionality beyond what any individual end-user spam service solution can provide. Your business gets multi-engined virus and spam filter protection, incorporating a full-range of spam blocker technologies. Repeated world-renowned VBSpam tests have independently concluded that MessageStream stops more than 99% of spam, and is the only Anti-Spam service and spam filter tested to have achieved four Gold awards in a row.

When compared with localised solutions, a spam filter and managed email protection spam service like MessageStream offers a more complete set of spam filter solutions, and combats both spam and viruses across a wider range of platforms. MessageStream provides first-rate spam filter security by identifying threats outside your business's network and filtering malicious viruses and unwanted spam messages before they enter with its tried and trusted spam blocker.

Automatic archiving

In additional to anti spam services, MessageStream automatically archives all inbound and outbound email, with easy-to-use search and retrieve tools. By ensuring everything is saved and securely stored, you are reducing the risk of business interruption in the event of losing important emails with its high-end spam blocker. What's more, you're taking the decision to archive away from the individual employee, providing much better and more comprehensive spam services and storage. In the event of a disaster, quick and easy access to complete email archives help to minimise disruption and get business back on track as soon as possible. Likewise, any legal need to call upon email records can be handled confidently and efficiently.

Emergency Email Protection

Email is crucial to ensuring that your business runs smoothly. Consequently, it needs to be key a consideration when planning emergency email protection and disaster recovery planning, together with your anti spam services.

Quick and effective restoration of email communications between employees and each other, customers and clients, business partners and other key stakeholders can mean the difference between a minor disturbance and a major catastrophe. Experts in business email management agree that secure off-site spam services and backup of critical records – plus email spam services – is key to effective emergency email protection and disaster recovery planning.

As an externally managed service, MessageStream is always active and can help to restore your business's email in just minutes, keeping downtime and disruption to a minimum.