Protection Defences and Security

SPAM Protection

SPAM - the Junk Mail of the Digital Age

Research shows:

Daily emails Sent	31 Billion
Email considered Spam	40% of all email
Daily Spam emails sent	12.4 billion
Daily Spam received per person	6
Annual Spam received per person	2,200
States with Anti-Spam Laws	26
Email address changes due to Spam	16%
Estimated Spam increase by 2007	63%
Annual Spam in 1,000 employee company	2.1 million
Users who reply to Spam email	28%
Users who purchased from Spam email	8%
Corporate email that is considered Spam	15-20%
Wasted corporate time per Spam email	4-5 seconds

Most Annoying SPAM:

Pornography	91%
Mortgage and Loans	78%
Investments	68%
Real Estate	61%
Software	41%
Internet	7%
Leisure	6%
Spiritual	4%
Other	3%

With SPAM on the increase, email is becoming increasingly difficult for many businesses to manage. messagehub protects you against unsolicited and unwanted SPAM and ensures your users' mailboxes operate to maximum efficiency.

The messagehub environment hosts extreme defence systems. Using Barracuda Technology messagehub fights against SPAM and other threats to your server. We protect against SPAM with a ten level defence mechanism:

• Denial of service and security protection
• IP block list
• Rate control
• Virus check with archive decompression
• Barracuda virus check
• User-specified rules
• Spam fingerprint check
• Intention analysis
• Bayesian analysis
• Rule-based scoring

Virus Protection

 When a Virus Attacks...

The threat and impact of virus attacks is extremely costly to businesses:

messagehub can manage this risk for you and protect your business from these attacks.

Virus protection in the messagehub infrastructure operates 5 separate levels of defence:

• Level 1 protected by - our multi-tiered firewalls
• Level 2 protected by - our internal firewalls and Microsoft ISA server
• Level 3 protected by - our Barracuda Spam and Instant Messaging Firewalls
• Level 4 protected by - Trend Micro's Server Protect, direct security of the actual hardware platform.
• Level 5 protected by - Trend Micro's Scan Mail, all mail items are checked individually.

Key features of messagehub antivirus scanning and management services:

• 24x7 antivirus protection
• Automatic Virus pattern file updates, updated every hour
• High-performance scanning
• Reliable antivirus protection
• Robust log reports and notifications
• Advanced content filtering
• High-performance antivirus security
• Anti-SPAM and anti-phising SMTP
• Connector-level scanning