| Spam
The
Problem
The
Costs
The
Solution
The
Problem
According to industry analyst
Ferris
Research, spam now accounts for at least
15-20% of all mail in corporate inboxes. In 2003,
it’s estimated that this will cost U.S. companies
alone more than $10 billion.
Another
report by the Gartner
Group states that, unless companies begin
deploying anti-spam technologies immediately, more
than 50% of enterprise message traffic will be spam
by 2004.
The resulting impact on delivery, storage,
processing and lost productivity is staggering. And
by all accounts, the epidemic is only just beginning.
According
to the Cyber-Crime
Division of the U.S. Department of Justice,
for example, the U.S. is currently experiencing a
substantial increase in spam involving on-line fraud,
including online auctions, fraud involving retail
sales, investment fraud, payment card fraud, identity
theft and business opportunity or "work at home"
schemes. With the vast majority of spam now coming
from outside North America, it's increasingly unlikely
that legislation alone will be able to stop it.
In addition, "spammers"
are only becoming more sophisticated. Among other
methods at their disposal, today's spammers use such
sophisticated techniques as:
- Using multiple unsecured 3rd
party SMTP servers to send large amounts of unsolicited
email - find
out more
- Using HTML camouflage to hide
spam from traditional filters - find
out more
- And using synonyms, misspellings
and other different ways of presenting the same
information, to trick standard key word and phrase
searches from blocking their messages - find
out more
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The
Costs
Ignoring these threats can open
your business and your Exchange messaging system to
a number of potentially damaging and expensive consequences,
including:
Employee productivity. The time spent dealing
with spam can stretch into hours of lost productivity
per employee each week.
Network performance. In
addition to lost productivity, spam wastes valuable
network resources when each employee downloads the
messages onto their workstations.
Bandwidth. Unwanted e-mail
also often contains large images that are repeatedly
downloaded for each recipient via http or SMTP, often
choking your corporate bandwidth at the busiest times
of the work day.
Hardware. Finally, the more
spam your company receives, the greater the amount
of on-line storage and backup media your Exchange
Server needs, wasting money and resources which could
be invested more profitably elsewhere.
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The
Solution
Nemx SecurExchange
Perimeter lets you manage offensive or
unauthorized content, to keep spam and other intruders
out of your network.
Created
exclusively for Microsoft Exchange Server, and available
in both Internet-only and enterprise-level versions,
Power Tools includes such key anti-spam tools as:
New!
Concept
Manager
Understand the meaning of an email to detect and filter
junk mail and inappropriate content with greater consistency,
accuracy and reliability.
Spam
Manager
Stop unsolicited and unwanted junk email at the front
door of your Exchange server.
Content
Manager
Filter out offensive emails by message content or
web links or images (SURBL) strip unwanted file attachments.
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To find out more about the true costs of spam, and
what you can do about it, visit Nemx
SecurExchange Perimeter
or contact
us today!
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