July 27th, 2010
Many more business these days are moving towards offsite hosting of their email management systems. As spam rates continue to soar, and staff are becoming more accountable for their actions, businesses need an effective way to manage their emails – that not only reduces their email risk, but also frees up their time to focus on their daily operations. As a result, these hosted email management services have become ever more sophisticated, offering a whole range of useful features.
As well as providing spam filtering and spam blocking services, they can also provide secure email archiving which is useful for compliance and business continuity purposes. However, another handy feature is the email statistic reports that let businesses review their staff’s email usage.
At MessageStream, we help you manage your emails effectively and easily through our leading hosted email service. While our award winning anti spam protection removes the hassle of junk mail and the threat of viruses from your network, we also give you essential information on your team’s email usage through our simple reporting tools. All your emails are first indexed and then securely archived instantly. Our detailed web-based management reports then give you real-time email system statistics, letting you easily monitor email activity across your organisation, as well as helping to identify trends – especially useful in forward business planning. The reports can be delivered daily or weekly, and are displayed using graphic statistics that make it easier to review and monitor this information. So let us make your life easier.
Tags: Anti-Spam, email risk, spam, spam blocking, spam filtering
July 20th, 2010
An unexpected disruption to your business, whether through fire, floods or any other natural disaster, can cause major damage to your IT systems – in particular your mail servers . Consider losing access to your emails, and the difficulty it can cause in not being able to maintain contact with your customers, suppliers and staff.
It is essential these days that businesses engage in the right business continuity planning early on, to help mitigate against even the most severe consequences. Email continuity should form a critical part of this business continuity planning. It enables a business to easily maintain email communications in the event of a mail server outage or scheduled maintenance. Through the use of a standby email system, it provides quick back up for a business so they can still access, send and receive emails – keeping those necessary lines of communications open.
We at Message Stream are here to help protect your business against any unexpected disruptions. Not only do we offer superior anti spam protection, our fully managed email continuity system lets you quickly switch to a hot-standby mail service should your mail server suffer an outage. Any domain name listed for email archiving or email filtering will also be added to this emergency system, letting you continue to use email communications during an outage. Our emergency email system is easy and quick to switch to, and results in minimal interruption to your business operations. Reduce your email risk and protect your business through our leading email continuity services.
Tags: email continuity, email filtering, email risk, junk email
June 23rd, 2010
Spam can vary from an unscrupulous marketer promoting products to recipients without permission, in the hope of making a few sales, to an email that contains a harmful virus or phishing scam. This is the practice of obtaining personal information – such as credit card details, bank account details and much more personal information – for misuse. This is often done by including links for you to provide details when making a purchase, or any other transaction under false pretences. Many people don’t think that they would be caught out by a scammer, but identity theft, through the practice of Phishing, is on the increase.
Spam emails can include malware, which are harmful computer viruses and spyware which will infiltrate your computer and possibly compromise your personal details. You can download a virus without even realising, just by clicking on a link in a junk email. For a company, this is a particular danger, as they have a responsibility to keep personnel and clients’ confidential information secure. A harmful virus on the business system can cause the personal information to be used by a third party.
Businesses have a huge responsibility not only in terms of security but also in keeping costs as low as possible, which isn’t easy when you have a problem with spam. Outsourcing the control of spam emails is advisable to a company who will deal with the problem in a cost effective manner, with no disruption to your business. Here at MessageStream, we can eradicate all spam in a low cost and secure manner.
Tags: anti-spam technology, email risk, email spam, Spam Blocker, Spam Service
March 9th, 2010
The spam that is around today is a highly sophisticated method of targeting computers and networks, for a number of reasons which were not even possible in the early days of the internet.
As technological advances grew across the world and the internet, so did the ways and means with which programmers began to target their spam junk emails. Spammers are a patient bunch of people, but none more so than hackers whose needs seek the most private and critical of information in order to pursue their criminal purposes, providing quite a high email risk.
Luckily the spam that is more regularly seen in the current climate is only harmful should you choose to open and click on the file that may be attached because by doing that you are opening up an entry point and allowing a spammer to target your information.
Systems often targeted by spam are CAPTCHA systems; however, recent spam blocker technology has proven that counteracting this form of attack is more accurately dealt with by an advanced computer software programme than with human input.
The spam filter and anti-virus technology we use to protect our networks is highly effective and subject to a computer user being human, using the latest software updates will ensure full protection is maintained against advanced methods of attack.
For many years, we at MessageStream have been providing some of the largest companies in the UK and SMEs alike with successful spam services that eliminate around 98% of all spam attacks before they even reach your inbox.
Tags: email risk, junk email, Spam Blocker, Spam Filter, Spam Services
March 4th, 2010
Current spam blocker technology is a constantly evolving method that has to change and evolve to keep pace with more sophisticated forms of spam targeting in order to deplete email risks.
Out of all the forms of online communication available in the world of the Internet today, it is spam that has been one of the fastest growing and fastest evolving forms of communication online.
Spammers for many years have been finding advanced abilities to penetrate email accounts and overcome any minor loop holes that can be found in current spam blocker technology. Spammers are looking for ways daily to evade detection and gain entry into secured servers by a range of techniques, which include attachment files to emails that they hope will be opened so they can gain access to a person’s computer or spread detrimental viruses across networks.
A quickly developing circle of those producing the latest spam techniques and those writing programs to counteract the latest spam techniques is an ever moving cycle of superior technology versus speed of application.
Due to the continuing advancement of both spam filters and spam it is always essential to ensure if you are using spam blocker technology, anti-virus or spyware techniques that you update them every time your computer flags up that there has been an update to the programmes you are using to protect your computer.
As experts in the highest and most effective levels of spam protection and reducing email risk from spam, we at MessageStream provide a complete solution to company’s spam services from large corporate to SMEs.
Tags: email risk, Spam Blocker, Spam Filter, Spam Services
