Spam - To indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. Also known as electronic "junk mail".
Phishing - The act of tricking someone into giving them confidential information or tricking them into doing something that they normally wouldn’t do or shouldn’t do. For example: sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.
Virus - A software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer.
- Last year the amount of spam email sent globally increased by 100%, from 30 billion to 60 billion messages sent per day .
- During 2006 there were more than 1000 successful phishing attacks daily.
- In 1991 there were only 300 computer viruses in the world. Now there are over 150,000.
Email Protection
The COSMIC email protection service provides accurate protection from email threats, including spam and fraud scams, viruses and attacks on networks. The service is available to organisations of all sizes, including small businesses with a couple of users, up to large corporate and government departments with hundreds of thousands of users.
Applying multiple layers of defence, the email protection service provides the comprehensive service required to purify business email from threats.
Spam and False Positives
With regards to Spam a false positive is an email that has been wrongly identified as Spam. This is very subjective as one persons Spam can be another’s legitimate email.
As an example an email airline tickets can sometimes be caught as Spam. This is triggered mainly due to the way the email is formatted, adverts that are embedded into it and the number sent out from one source.
With any Spam prevention system you must have a way of monitoring what has been caught or have a daily report detailing this.
Why COSMIC Email Protection?
- Protect your network from attackers
- Protect employees from inappropriate content
- Best of breed technology
Testimonial:
"The email protection service has really saved
significant amounts of time in not having to wade through all the junk mail
every day. Thanks for making our working lives that bit easier. It really is the
little things that can make a big difference!
Thank you from a happy
client!"
Lorna
Turner
Social
Enterprise Support Worker
Benefits
- 99%+ spam detection rate.
- 100% virus detection
- Phishing / Fraud prevention
- Protected backup SMTP
- Periodic Summary of all blocked emails
- Configuration controls from Web Portal
- Per user allow and block lists
- No hardware or software
- Web Reporting of email threats
If you have any questions about this service or are interested in pricing please
contact us.
There is a special discount for registered UK charities.