Do you know how dangerous and time-consuming SPAM can be?

Email systems and email users have been overwhelmed with SPAM over the last several years. Estimates say that SPAM is 88% – 92% of all email sent. To put that in perspective, for one of our happy customers, The Utility Company’s Connected Office Anti-SPAM service blocked almost 2 million messages for 89 users last year – that is almost 22,500 messages per user. That is a lot of email messages to be processed by their email servers and evaluated by their users. That also works out to 90 less email messages a day for each employee to go through.. Even scanning each one for 10 seconds would mean each employee is wasting at least 15 minutes a day. That is also a lot of potential on a daily basis for each employee to accidentally click on a link or download a virus that could cause significant harm to your IT infrastructure or your company's reputation.

So how do you ensure that your employees are not wasting their time sifting through thousands of messages of SPAM?

The answer is Connected Office Anti-SPAM. This system will accept all of your email on your behalf and evaluate it based on industry best-practice rules and only forward legitimate messages to your users. We do the heavy lifting of processing those 22,500 messages per user and filtering out the SPAM, so your employees can focus on their jobs!.

Available Features include:

Outbound Filtering
Filtering outgoing email helps an organization to protect the reputation of their domain (network). When spammers are successful in phishing attacks, they gain access to a users credentials. At that point they can take over the account and start sending spam through your network. The Utility Company’s administrators can protect the reputation of your networks and prevent any potentially compromised computers from spewing out spam. Benefits include:

Prevents internal systems from sending out spam and harming others (i.e. customers or partners)
Reduces the risk of being blacklisted (which damages your company’s reputation or ability to do business)
Provides auto-whitelisting feature - emails from predetermined (safe) domains are automatically accepted

Anti-Virus Protection
This service provides virus checking of each email passing through the system for a registered domain. If a virus is detected or if a message attachment cannot be scanned, the message and its attachments are permanently deleted. Benefits include:

Prevents viruses from reaching users
Users won’t unwittingly infect their system
Reduces the chances of:
- Infecting internal systems
- Spreading viruses
- Harboring a zombie system

Email Protection/Continuity
This service provides an automatic email failover where, in the event that the Customer’s email server is unavailable, The Utility Company will accept email messages on the customer’s behalf for 5 days (or more), and deliver those email messages to the customer when the email server become available again. Benefits include: