Anti-Virus / Anti-Spam Protection

Choices, choices, choices…

With the maturing of the Anti-Virus / Anti-Spam (AV/AS) marketplace, there are now more products than ever to protect your users from the very real and very regular threat of AV/AS attack.

Many organisations have already implemented solutions based on a client server model of software based protection or an appliance that sits at the inbound point of your WAN connection. This may be proving an effective way of protecting your business from AV/AS, but is it an efficient way?

Those organisations that have moved from the licence model, and its inherent operational overheads, understand the benefits and efficiencies of the managed services model, sometimes referred to as Software as a Service (SaaS) or Cloud computing.

So what are the benefits and efficiencies of switching your AV/AS protection to the managed services model? We have listed just some of these below…

• Most commercial users rely on just the one ‘engine’ or appliance to protect themselves.
• The managed services provider typically has between two and four anti-virus / anti-spam checking ‘engines’ in place that filter out 100% of virus based traffic and over 98.5% of spam on a consistent basis.
• As virus and spam traffic is trapped by the managed services provider before it hits your network connection, i.e. your ADSL, SDSL, ATM, Frame Relay, LAN extension service etc, the managed services provider ensures your network connection is kept clear for valuable business traffic to flow over rather than junk mail and traffic containing threats.
• IT staff no longer have to check or manage the latest updates.
• Administration is reduced as there are no licence renewals to manage.
     
• Adding users can be arranged on a half yearly basis via Brighter Connections to further reduce administration.
• Pricing for managed services is less volatile than software licences, many of which are subject to exchange rate fluctuations.
• There is no additional annual support bill on the software or any hardware appliances.
• Deployment of a managed solution is done at the MX record level and is therefore very quick and simple.
• Managed services providers offer enhanced reporting capability helping you improve your understanding of the traffic flowing in and out of your business; in many cases this can be examined in granular detail.

If you would like to look at this first hand, why not contact us to arrange a free, no obligation on-line demonstration from the comfort of your own PC? We need no more than 30 minutes of your time.

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