E-Mail Security

Most businesses understandthe need for email security, derived mainly from the annoyance of the volume of unsolicited (Spam)email which arrives on a daily basis. Most spam is annoying but harmless however email provides a channel for the growing threat ofhackers, viruses, phising and identity theft and access to secure business information.

According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group, the amount of spam email was between 88% & 92% of email messages sent in the first half of 2010.

Email security is a multi-layered discipline which can involve using several types of security software and security technology.

As well as implementing security packages good security practices and policies for your staff are also essential in securingyour email communications.
Stratiis deploys a number of email security methods, applications and devices including:

Email Security Devices
Email Security can be flexibly deployed as an Email Security Appliance, as a software application on a third party Windows server, or as a Email Security Virtual Appliance in a VMWare environment.
Benefit from specialized compliance management capabilities and added virus protection to safeguard your network, meet regulatory requirements and more.

Email Encryption and Digital Signatures
Email encryption technologies exist to protect individual sensitive emails. Software such as PGP allows you to encrypt emailsbetween the sender and recipient, to boost the security of the emails.
Email encryption uses a public key encoding system which has been termed military grade security because it is so difficult to compromise and Digital Signatures provide the final security of verifying the data that is being transmitted.

Cloud based Email Filtering
While email security was once only available via on-premise software or an appliance, the industry has evolved and several good email security solutions are now delivered through the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Opting for the SaaS delivery model offers a variety of benefits. Organizations don't have to install any hardware or software to run the service, and the update and maintenance processes are automatic and included in a flat per user, per month fee.

Email Security software
With greylisting, IP reputation filtering, Bayesian filtering and other advanced anti-spam technologies, email security software is an effective spam management solution for companies who do not wish to invest in an individual appliance.

Email Security Policies and Procedures Most businesses have trained their staff in the basic email usage rules and best practises, such as not opening emails from unreliable sources or clicking on web links in emails that you cant trust for sure.

However, there are also other good usage policies that can help to secure your email and the business as a whole.