Spam Protection? What product should I use?

Earlier this week, a different service provider (Out of Big Bend, WI) called up Sensible Gurus looking for some help. On one of their customers machines they installed the ESET Spam protection and Anti-Virus Suite. Exchange was none too happy, after a bunch of magic we did get Exchange to a point where mail was flowing again.

Two other service providers (one in New Berlin, the other in Wauwatosa) in the area that I know of only sell Barracuda Devices for Spam Filtering. The Barracuda is a hardware device that sits in front of the mail server checking each piece of mail before it is delivered to the mail server.

And finally a number other Service Providers in the Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha Area use the UTM Devices (Such as Fortinet, Sonicwall, or Untangle) to filter the Spam at the Firewall Level.

We, at Sensible Gurus LLC, feel that these solutions, while they work, are not in the best interest for the customer. Sensible Gurus used a hosted based mail scrubbing service that not only filters the spam offsite, but also archives for disaster recovery, system outage, or even compliance.

In all of our competitors solutions, the junk mail is still being delivered to the mail server, and in many times being bounced back. This uses up precious bandwidth. In one office of 5 computer users, switching to our Anti-Spam solution freed up over HALF of their bandwidth!

With the Sensible Gurus Anti-Spam Service we also remove the possibly of blacklisting of the customers IP Address when the server or internal computer gets compromised and starts sending out spam! Because our Anti-Spam filters both incoming and outgoing messages and is sent out from our hosted location, it doesn't matter if your internal IP address is ever blacklisted!

The Remote Access to our backup mail server is a lifesaver in the event of a natural disaster! As our Hosted Servers are located in multiple locations our customers mail is accessible even if their internal mail server is underwater (as was the event in the local flooding)

Shoot us an e-mail as sales@sensiblegurus.com to discuss your mail security and continuity strategy!