Email Security
For the majority of today’s businesses, email has become an indispensable productivity tool. Email injects speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness into employee communications. It is also one of the primary avenues by which hackers can infiltrate corporate networks. Gartner projects that by the end of 2007, targeted attacks using professional-grade malware will have infected 75 percent of enterprises Spam. Viruses. Trojans. Phishing attacks. are just a few of the changing email-borne threats that can choke network activity or lead to debilitating loss of proprietary data.

SMB
SMBs often lack the resources to deploy an in-house email server and its accompanying security solution. Many smaller companies feel that their only option is to implement single-point solutions such as standalone firewalls, anti-spam software, or intrusion detection systems. While these kinds of solutions do provide a certain measure of email security, they simply can’t offer the same kind of protection against blended email threats as enterprise-grade, end-to-end security solutions that effectively utilize best of breed technologies. Today, more and more SMBs and a surprising number of enterprises are beginning to migrate toward hosted email providers.

Companies entrusting their assets to another organization must ensure that the host company’s staff is flexible, highly talented, thoroughly trustworthy and are compliant to international best practices.

Best Practices
To provide the end-to-end security required by today’s growing businesses, an information security program must comprise multiple, overlapping layers of security.

Top-tier hosting companies adhere to well-defined, heavily tested processes and procedures that bring consistency and structure to email security. Processes should be established and thoroughly documented for every aspect of the operation, from firewall configuration to facility access. The advantage of well-documented, strictly followed processes is repeatability and they help personnel minimize errors through consistent performance of tasks.

A trusted vendor ensures that its employees keep pace with ever-evolving security technology by requiring up-to-date certifications and providing continuous training. The best vendors supplement their internal auditing practices with third-party audits.

A top-tier vendor should focus heavily on email security with baseline protection. Strong perimeter defense for email includes addressing security issues at every level within an organization.

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