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Protection with settings you control
Your email protection solution should offer you more than just an on and off switch. Every company
has its own set of rules and exceptions and how they want things configured. You should be able
to tweak and tune the criteria used to filter your emails. You should have the ability to access logs
to understand your threat environment. At the very least you should have the ability to customize
your whitelists and blacklists.
Simple dashboard control
Your email protection solution should offer you complete situational awareness and control of your
system from a single unified web-based console. The console should include access to activity
logs and provide a real time view into the email queue. And all configurations and services should
be controllable from the console.
Price and convenience matter too
Email protection doesn’t have to be
expensive or difficult
Email protection started as an enterprise solution with enterprise prices for enterprise clients. The
problem is that level of protection never made it to small and medium size businesses (SMB) at a
price they could afford. To make matters worse, it hasn’t always been easy for SMBs to obtain that
kind of advanced protection. From challenging integrations to a lengthy sales process to three year
contract commitments.
As an SMB, you should look for a service provider who makes email protection fast, easy and
affordable. No sales calls. No contracts. Up and running in ten minutes.
You should also look for a provider who doesn’t charge a per user fee, but rather charges a fixed
fee for a given level of service, so you can better control your expenses. This is especially true for
large groups that communicate infrequently via email like alumni associations. There’s no reason
you have to pay a per user fee if you only have a handful of employees.
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