Today, email messaging is an essential, irreplaceable working tool for its practicality, inexpensiveness and simple use. Unfortunately, its diffusion went side by side with the increase of undesired messages (commonly known as SPAM) and with the diffusion of computer viruses and different kinds of email frauds (defined SCAMS or HOAXES) and messages intended to deceive the receiver, inducing him to give his access data and password to payment services or home banking (known as Phishing).

Description: Even if SPAM is not a cost in itself, unless you access your mail with a per-byte or per-minute rate, the greatest cost is the loss of productivity due to the loss of time to detect useless messages or frauds, and concentrate just on messages really important for our activity.

Virtual offers two possible solutions to protect your email address. The first solution is an outsourcing one, the second is a hardware platform to be installed in the client’s office or on a dedicated server in Virtual’s own data center.

Online protection is aimed at small business or all those business without IT personnel. Email filtering is managed by one of Virtual’s server cluster, devoted solely to email security.

OnSite protection is based on a hardware appliance where ALT-N’s MDaemon software is installed. This solution is mainly profitable for bigger companies, thanks to the possibility to customize the intervention on emails, the whitelists and blacklists and the interface with the company’s email server through LDAP or active directory.