Spam Filters For Microsoft Exchange

With spam increasing at a frightening rate companies are being forced to take stricter measures to stop the flood of spam onto their mail servers. Microsoft Exchange bears the brunt of this load due to it's widespread usage in the corporate world.

Implementing a Microsoft Exchange spam server policy and solution is a critical step in any companies overall security and IT integrity plan. Spam containing offensive and potentially dangerous content can bring even the best maintained network to a halt. Educating employees to the perils of opening attachments can only go so far. After that actually stopping spam from ever reaching or leaving your Exchange server should be your primary goal. Without taking the appropriate steps to protect your servers you are simply wasting network resources and allowing end-users to become more and more frustrated by the tidal wave of spam flooding their inbox daily. If employees were receiving 100 pieces of junk snail mail in work each day it would not be acceptable and the same intolerance for spam must be demonstrated.

It could be left to the employees or standalone client software to protect them from spam individually. The man hours and IT headaches involved in such an endeavour are immense. You're relying on end-users to effectively update and use their spam fighting software. This is far from ideal. Blocking, bouncing and deleting spam on a server level is the way forward.

Implementation of an Exchange spam server can take place in two different ways:

Software solution
There are numerous software products available to block spam directly on your mail server but one of the better known of these is iHate Spam. This software is installed directly on the server itself and takes care of blocking the spam from there. The costs of such software is usually charged per user, normally starting at a 25 user minimum.

Hardware Solution
These are physical "boxes" that plug directly into your network. Their only function is to ensure that Microsoft Exchange only receives spam free mail so that it can route it to end-users. The cost of implementing a hardware based spam filter solution on your network can be costly at first but often the reduced man hours in maintenance and updates can balance that out. That coupled with the fact that most hardware solutions are not sold on a per-user basis can make them extremely cost competitive over the lifespan of a corporate network.

Take action before it's too late. Too many system and network administrators are toying with the idea of implementing a reliable spam solution on their Exchange server. Proscratinating on such an issue can only lead to a catastrophic network outage.

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