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Saturday 10 May 2008 

Is your e-mail system secure?

On the plus side, e-mail is a cost-effective ‘mission-critical’ communications tool that organisations can no longer manage without. On the negative side, it can be anarchic, difficult to control and often unwittingly used as a propagation medium for a variety of undesirable communications and attachments.

People can nowadays send and receive e-mail instantly, from multiple locations and via multiple devices, with messages potentially reaching anyone, anywhere in the world. It is a fact that an alarming percentage of these e-mails will carry potentially harmful content – in fact it is reported that up to one in 20 e-mails contain a virus, and up to eight out of 10 e-mails are spam*.

In addition, messages that would have been considered merely unprofessional some years ago (jokes, gossip or images), can now result in high profile legal actions taken against companies and their top executives. Viruses, spam, pornography and other unwanted content can seriously damage a company’s health and its brand integrity.

It is therefore essential to have an effective means of filtering out as many of those undesirable messages as possible, whether inbound, or worse still, outbound from your mail system. Message filtering capabilities can be added to the majority of today’s messaging applications and enterprise platforms to automatically scan and filter messages for a vast array of unwanted content. Messages that fall foul of customisable filtering criteria can be safely quarantined for review and approval, or deleted as appropriate.

In taking the first step towards a safer and more secure messaging infrastructure, Triplan offers a free visit from one of its consultants who will evaluate your messaging and communications requirements in complete confidence so that you can be advised of the best options available to your organisation.

Through the combination of own experience and expertise and good relationships and long-standing alliances with our business partners, who are leading providers of managed e-mail security services, Triplan offers class-leading protection to underpin your e-mail usage policy, keep your e-mail clean and your good name untarnished .

Source: www.softscan.dk

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