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Merit MailScreen: Critical security for any email system


    By Mike Zawacki - June 17, 2013 5:17 pm

Email is one of the most critical pieces of any organization's technology. And with hackers, phishers, malware, and a host of other increasingly sophisticated attacks being carried out through email securing that technology is becoming more critical by the day. A number of appliances and hosted applications are being employed to combat these threats. Spam is an ever present nuisance as well, clogging up inboxes and taxing email systems with a high volume of useless messages that can hurt productivity and collaboration. Secure Email Gateways (or SEGs) allow you to police the traffic to the mail accounts your organization relies on. The best of breed SEGs keep threats away from your inbox, learn from past attacks, and anticipate new threats.

Merit has been offering Cisco's IronPort SEG technology free with its MeritMail service. Cisco IronPort is one of the most highly regarded solutions in the SEG market, with Gartner Research. consistently placing it as an industry leader. Cisco IronPort's ability to detect new malware, share information on threats globally, and track and eliminate spam outbreaks are some of the things that make it stand out as an SEG solution.

Merit is pleased to be able to offer Merit MailScreen to any organization that needs a superior stand alone SEG solution for their existing mail system.

Some of the key benefits of Merit MailScreen:

  • Integrates with any existing email service.
  • Blocks up to 80% of threats before they can be delivered to your mailbox.
  • Eliminates 98% of spam, freeing up your network bandwidth, storage, processor and administrative resources.
  • Easy to implement with any hosted or managed mail service.
  • Automatic Updates protect against new threats.
  • Rapid Anti-Spam technology continuously utilizes information collected on a global basis from network probes to identify and block spam outbreaks in real-time.
  • Effective against Spam, Fraud, Phishing and Malware.
  • Messages flagged as spam are quarantined.
  • Daily digests of spam messages are sent to each user. Users can select to receive and approve e-mail or discard the messages.
  • Eliminates equipment needs and minimizes man-hours required to benefit from email security.
  • Provides a trusted, community focused partner for Members' mail security needs.
  • 24 x 7 Support.


If you would like to learn more about Merit MailScreen or speak to Merit about the service please visit the MailScreen product webpage.



 






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