The Spam Problem

We all know the persistent and growing problems that spam and malware present to businesses and the marketplace.

The risks include system load burdens, virus and worm infections, phishing attacks, breeches in customer data protection, legal issues with employees and inappropriate email content, the list goes on!

Spam management presents significant challenges for organisations today.

 

1. Human Resources Challenges: It is nearly impossible to keep in pace with ever-changing IT threats, and to keep hardware and software combinations up-to-date and properly maintained throughout the network.
2. Financial Resources Challenges: It is difficult to justify the expenditures to put a leading edge hardware appliance in place, along with software, as well as to install, manage and upgrade on a periodic basis.

To successfully combat these challenges, many organisations today, are turning to managed service experts. The outcome includes better spam reduction results, along with critical time and budget savings.

 

Technical details

LastSpam inbound filtering uses a combination of technologies to provide superior performance. Outbound filtering is optional. For customers concerned with email confidentiality, email encryption functionality is available, without the need to install any PKI or other complicated technology at your end.

The LastSpam service includes Bandwidth protection.

Antivirus protection is also built into the service, using a combination of 3 virus scanning technologies, including the Norman Scanning Engine ( www.norman.com ), which is used by Microsoft. Advanced extension and file type filtering further protects your network from dangerous attachments, even if the extension is renamed. This can be customised according to your organisational policies.

LastSpam protection defends against all types of spam, with a sustained 99% performance rate. Phishing attacks are blocked, in addition to dangerous email content, scripts or malicious URLs.