A superior email spam filter improves productivity and performance.

No business today is immune to spam attacks. From malicious email phishing attacks to innocuous sales pitches that nevertheless inundate inboxes and slow system performance, spam is a significant threat to employee productivity and network performance.

An email spam filter can help prevent spam attacks, but choosing the right filter is a challenge. Many in-house email spam filter solutions are ineffective either because of the administrative overhead and costly expertise needed to manage them or the degradation in system performance they cause during peak usage. Many companies have sought a spam filter in managed service solutions, but these are also problematic, frequently responsible for slowing down the delivery of legitimate email messages and hampering business productivity.

That's why so many companies around the world have chosen Mimecast-a provider of unified email management solutions with a remarkably effective and affordable email spam filter.

Mimecast delivers a leading email spam filter.

Mimecast is a quickly growing software-as-a-service company with a unified approach to email management that includes a highly reliable email spam filter. The significant difference between Mimecast and other solutions is the way messages are tested for legitimacy. In-house and managed service solutions test messages "on the disk," relying on full receipt of messages before performing a variety of tests. This approach consumes significant processing power and resources, causing delivery slowdowns at peak usage time and during spam or virus outbreaks.

Mimecast's email spam filter tests messages "on the wire," while messages are still in transmission. By seeking the earliest opportunity to reject spam and to prioritize legitimate email, Mimecast places far fewer processing demands on the system, ensuring timely delivery of messages. Consequently, Mimecast's email spam filter is able to overcome the problems faced by other solutions, offering a secure, reliable, and cost-effective solution with minimal to no impact on system performance.

Mimecast's email spam filter has achieved significant results, enabling companies to reject 99.5 percent of spam as undeliverable at the source. Mimecast has also achieved 100 percent email antivirus protection, making it an undisputed leader in email security.

More than an spam filter-a holistic approach to email management

In addition to an email spam filter, Mimecast solutions include the tools to reduce the cost and complexity of managing all aspects of a messaging system. These include email archive services that enable greater email security and improved eDiscovery; solutions to ensure email compliance; a Microsoft Exchange archive solution; and more.