1) Managed Email Threat Protection –
a. Functionality: Protection against spam, viruses and phishing exploits outside the corporate network.
b. Business Value:

	i. Block email-borne malware outside of the corporate network.
	ii. Provide stronger inbox control by blending content and non-content based techniques to achieve more effective blocking and fewer false positives.
	iii. Avoid unsolicited offensive material that could be perceived as creating a hostile work environment.
	iv. Avoid the maintenance and management required for on-site hardware and software solutions.
	v. Completely eliminate foreign language spam that often bypasses traditional defenses.
	vi. Secure the local email server by eliminating multiple access points (through a rule that forces all incoming mail through the managed service for filtering).

 

2) Outbound Email Auditing –
a. Functionality: Detection of open relays, zombie PCs, and outbound viruses.
b. Business Value:

	i. Protect your reputation with a safeguard that prevents users from inadvertently sending spam and viruses to your customers, suppliers and partners.
	ii. Avoid the blacklisting of your production static IP addresses, and the business disruption that this entails.
	iii. Identify possible compromised PCs that can lead to the leak of sensitive corporate information.

 

3) Email / Business Continuity –
a. Functionality: Auto-queuing of inbound email in case the local mail server fails or the power goes out.
b. Business Value:

	i. Incoming email is not bounced or lost when your local email server is down for any reason.
	ii. Local email problems are invisible to external senders, because non-delivery receipts are not sent.
	iii. Delivery of incoming mail resumes as soon as the local email server returns to operation.

 

4) Volume-based protection –
a. Functionality: Block email sent to unknown users before it reaches your corporate infrastructure.
b. Business Value:

	i. Neutralize volume-based directory harvesting and denial of service attacks.
	ii. Save the bandwidth otherwise consumed by spam and messages to unknown users.
	iii. Avoid the need for hardware (hard drive, memory, CPU) upgrades to critical infrastructure components by reducing the volume of email processed per day.

5) Enhancements to the overall email experience –
a. Functionality: Use of purpose-specific addresses as tags to organize and track email communication.
b. Business Value:

	i. Use Protective Addresses to organize email, for example, for all correspondence related to a particular customer or project, or for responses to a marketing campaign.
	ii. Provide users with concrete, proactive tools to protect the integrity of their primary email address.