Our Spam Filtering Service with Office 365 – the perfect match!

office 365 cloud Office 365 in the cloud has some great advantages. Microsoft manages the software updates, anti-spam, and email filtering making it easier for the IT support services. You can collaborate in real time using different mobile devices and PCs.

According to Adallom’s annual Cloud Usage Risk Report, Box, Office 365, Salesforce, and Google Apps constitute the majority of cloud applications in use today. It is inevitable that the move to the cloud will continue. Licensing for the upcoming Windows 10 enterprise will be per-user instead of per-device. This will spur the use of virtual desktop integration (VDI), where your computer will reside not on your desk, but in the cloud.

But, let’s face it, moving applications and data to cloud services exposes them to a larger variety of malware. As a result, many clients implement our spam filtering services in conjunction with Office 365 to improve security and block more spam and malware.

Email security for Office 365

Office 365 comes in a variety of flavors. Only the Enterprise versions offer beefed-up security. Office 365 mail security gateways provide some protection, but our spam filtering services is more effective in blocking spam. It blocks over 99.9% of spam with a false positive rate of less than 0.03%. Apex IT Solutions spam filtering service provides double antivirus engines, Kaspersky Lab and Clam AV, to protect against malware.

Apex IT Solutions can process both inbound and outbound email:

You can specify our services as the inbound mail gateway. We filters out spam and viruses, and then passes the mail on to the Office 365 mail servers.

You can also choose Apex IT Solutions as the outbound mail gateway. All outgoing mail sent via your Office 365 account is filtered before forwarding it to the recipient.

We offers additional control for outbound mail that is not available in Office 365. For example, Apex IT ensures that your e-mail domains are not used by spambots. This is important because internet service providers block email from addresses that generate spam. What would happen to your business if you could not communicate with your clients (and vice versa)?

Dedicated mail filtering

As you know, the threat landscape is constantly evolving with new threats emerging every day. Our service offers protection from the most current threats. Moreover, for our service mail filtering is not just another option on a long list services; it is there core offering. This focus results in a higher overall catch rate and protection rate than clients experience from vendors who are trying to be “all things to all people”.

Administrators can configure settings for the entire company, but also users can fine-tune filters. No two businesses are the same; mails that one company may regard as legitimate e-mail another company may regard as spam. Our services advanced features such as Advanced Content Control filter enable our engineers to apply a specific rule set to your mail flow. You see the mails you need to see and not the ones you don’t!  This level of customization is not available on in Office 365 standard filtering.

Data Loss Prevention for email and files

Only the most expensive version of Office 365, Enterprise E3, offers data loss prevention for email and files. But business continuity is a concern for businesses of all sizes. SpamTitan Private Cloud infrastructure provides back up for your mail server. Our service maintains a 2-node private cluster to process mail; if one node fails, the other node takes over to continue processing email. Furthermore, each node is located in a different data center, offering optimal back up. Our service also uses Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), requiring identification upon connecting to the network, before any data is exchanged.

Spam filtering complements Office 365 features

This article outlines some reasons that companies use our spam filtering service along with an Office 365 subscription, among them:

  • A greater level of protection.
  • A higher spam catch rate.
  • A greater level of customization/granularity.
  • Better outbound mail controls.
  • Business continuity.

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Contact us today to see how we can meet your unique business needs, and further secure your Office 365 environment.

On July 7, 2015, posted in: Blog, Security by

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