Spam levels are increasing again
Published in CensorNet MailSafe on April 03, 2009 by Administrator
Last November spam levels dropped markedly when an ISP known as McColo was disconnected. They were disconnected when researchers discovered that a very high percentage of all spam generated by various botnets were commanded and controlled by IP addresses pinpointed with that provider. As soon as their upstreams pulled the plug the amount of spam flowing around the Internet plummeted.
Now the level of spam is rising again and has nearly reached the pre-McColo take down levels according to statistics issued by various anti-spam monitoring services. If you have not taken steps to protect your inbox yet, you may well like to consider protecting it now.
First, the good news is that you don’t have to throw out your existing email infrastructure. Your server, whether located in-house, or out there in a hosted environment, can remain where it is and do what it is good at, delivering mail to you, and sending your mails to whomever you’re sending them to.
The solution is an add-on service that requires no additional hardware, just a small amount of re-configuration so that emails, both inbound and outbound, go via an email filtering system that cuts out 99.997% of all spam and protects against email-borne viruses into the bargain.
Once you have made the small re-configuration to use the service to protect your inboxes you can add on additional services, such as a Business Continuity service which means that even if your mail server should fail, you can still read and write emails, and an email archiving service so that, should you lose an email, or need to prove that you did send an email months or years after you’ve deleted it locally, you can recall it and provide it in evidence.
Clearly, protecting oneself from spam as far as possible is useful, but the additional benefits available as an adjunct to this protection make this “Software as a Service (SAAS)” solution indispensable. The value increases when you discover you can take a 14 day no obligation free trial of the service to see if it really suits your needs.
