Spam:
What’s the big deal?
Defined
loosely as unsolicited commercial e-mail, spam has skyrocketed
in recent years and become an emergent problem for the
technology industry. The price for junk e-mail is high. In 2003,
spam will cost U.S. corporations more than $10 billion, making
it one of the most expensive problems today’s companies are
facing.[i]
But wait, it
gets worse.
Spam not only
costs companies exorbitant amounts of money, it also slows down
worker productivity, compromises computer networks, annoys
users, and contributes to overall security problems including
fraud and identity theft.
A
recent Harris Interactive poll found that 80 percent of Internet
users found spam "very annoying" and 74 percent favored making
mass spamming illegal.[ii]
In addition, most of the offers made in the spam messages are
bogus. A study for the US Federal Trade Commission found that
almost 66% of the 1,000 junk mail messages scrutinized were
false in some way.
As if the strain that spam and e-mail alerts put on in-boxes
weren't enough, expect even more trouble in coming years as the
number of e-mail messages doubles from 31 billion daily now to
60 billion by 2006.
In 2001, spam accounted for
only 8% of all e-mail traffic. It is now thought to account for
up to 40% of all e-mail messages sent across the net.[iii]
In today’s
technological climate, building a business without adopting an
e-mail filter is akin to building a house in a quiet
neighborhood and inviting crack dealers to live next door. If
not treated properly, spam can cost a company a great deal more
than money.
What we do
MailPrecise
utilizes multi-tiered, cutting-edge filtering technologies to
provide your company with a complete e-mail solution.
Our solution
includes:
·
24/7 threat monitoring and support
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No migration or integration required
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Domain and/or individual user spam settings (whitelists,
blacklists, etc.)
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Full suite of reports
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Disaster recovery and messaging fault tolerance
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Protection from DOS attacks
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Rapid implementation time - within 24 hours
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E-mail access fault tolerance and redundancy with 30 day
anywhere Web mail access
