Friday, December 30, 2011

Which Is Best Email Security or Email Archiving?

By Jennifer Flowers


Of the huge list of issues system administrators or IT heads need to deal with relating to email, email security tops the list. It has the biggest impact and can be as bad to get right as it is to get wrong. Getting your email archiving right is core to ensuring compliance, security and reliability. Email archiving is critical to every organization. It is essential that it is centralized and secure. Email archiving has to be about much more than email storage for the sake of record keeping and compliance with data storage rules.

Email security is quite difficult to get right. Occasionally getting it right takes more time than getting it wrong does, with overzealous email spam filters can catch and remove legitimate emails costing businesses money and leads from new customers. Email archiving needs to be done properly to ensure compliance with various laws and the removal of spam before the archive is created.

Filtering email before it reaches the server is essential. By placing the burden of processing on a separate server, it both reduces the burden on the mail server itself and ensures redundancy in a server down situation.

Moving filtering and virus filtration to another server ensures that it has been backed up prior to hitting the Microsoft Exchange server. That means should the on-site server go down you can still access every single e-mail regardless of why that server went down. Cloud based archived e-mails are stored off site, so you get continuity as well as additional storage off site.

Using the correct anti-virus and anti-spam filters as well as the right off-site email archiving solution is essential in the modern always on world. Having immediate and continuous access to all of your e-mails can only be achieved with the right kind of e-mail archiving system. You need a system that can be accessed anywhere in the world, regardless of the status of your on-site server. All email is guaranteed to be spam and virus free.

It only takes one rogue virus to take down your entire organisation. You can end up losing hundreds or even thousands of man hours trying to get rid of it and deal with the consequences. Finding an email security system that complies with all users needs is not easy. The right cloud based system hosting the most up to date virus scanning software is the answer. You need to find a system that allows instant reverse DNS lookups based on the very latest blacklists. It also has to stop phishing e-mails too.

Email solutions which combine the most cutting edge security with top notch always-on email archiving which can act as an emergency hot failover when the main mail server goes down is no longer just a 'nice to have' it is a 'must have'. Modern business needs an email solution which meets their needs and demands including mobile access, maximum uptime, spam-free, virus-free and easy management from the users perspective. This means IT managers are working harder than ever to find and implement the right solutions.

Without a doubt cloud based solutions are the answer. They are on separate servers from your main server so are secure and dependable. Cloud based servers are cheap, reliable, secure and guaranteed to be virus and spam free.




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