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Having a spam-free inbox is like a dream come true. However, it’s hardly the case in reality. The inbox is sometimes flooded with so many counterfeit e-mails, that even the genuine ones might be overlooked due to this. Blocking of spam is always a point of consternation for the IT administrator.

Traditionally, for an enterprise, SPAM blocking is done by security software running on their premise.This has certain disadvantages like declining spam blocking rates, increasing email and the spam volume level leads to a necessity for additional hardware, more time required by IT Personnel to skim through the daily spam, lowering of end-user productivity owing to higher number of spam and spam being stored on the network for the same length of email retention period.

Looking at these above mentioned, inherently challenging problems, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to look out for hosted email security solutions like the ones provided by TrendMicro.

The noticeable and standout benefits of such an approach include

1.) Stop spam, viruses, phishing, and other threats even before they reach your network.

2.) This also leads to saving of network resources including storage and improves end-user’s productivity.

3.) No additional hardware or software installation needed at your end.

Along with the cost saving benefits, the main features that TrendMicro’s InterScan Messaging Hosted Security offers are:

1.) Blocking up to 99% spam and that too before they reach your network.

2.) Unlimited email delivery for one fixed price user.

3.) Reduce costs with no additional hardware or software.

4.) Flexible content filtering to enforce compliance.

5.) Stops spam and email based threats in three phases – email reputation, threat scanning and content filtering.

TrendMicro’s SLA’s are very aggressive too. It provides money-back remedies if the SLAs are not met – 100% availability, 95% or better spam blocking effectiveness, not more than 0.0004% flagging of false-positives, not more than 2 minute delay in email delivery, zero email-based virus infection and also support responsiveness depending on the severity of the case. No wonder, it was rated as the #1 in Anti-Spam by a comparison test conducted by West Coast Labs.As per the report, TrendMicro’s hosted solution had the highest spam catch rate among all the solutions with 96.71%.

The InterScan Messaging Hosted Security solution is available in 2 variants

1.) Standard – Provides inbound email traffic filtering to block spam and other email-based threats and related actions like delete, quarantine, tagging and deliver can be taken on them. However these are the default policies and can’t be modified.

2.) Advanced – Provides the additional capability of filtering outbound email traffic. Additionally, it provides the administrator to tweak the default policies in order to obtain higher spam blocking and threat blocking while lowering down false-positives. Also, the administrator can control the email size, number of recipients, create content filtering rules based on headers, subject, body and attachments to enforce compliance and prevent data leaks.

Both these variants can be managed through a web-console which has all the updates, hot fixes, patches and application tuning.

These extensive features should really propel you to try out the solution by opting for the trial of 30 days. Additional pricing details can be obtained by reaching out to their sales representative or channel partners.

And more importantly, TrendMicro protects privacy of email content. This is done as all valid emails are passed through automatically without any human intervention. Emails are only stored if the customer server is unavailable as a disaster recovery feature.

These offerings should prompt you to try out the hosted security solution. Having a spam free inbox not only saves bandwidth and network resources, it also guarantees peace of mind.

While TrendMicro offers features which are best in industry, its always in the best interest of the customer to do his / her due diligence and read the terms and conditions before signing up for any product or service.

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