Cloud Based Spam Filtering

Overview

What is cloud-based spam filtering?

Email spam filters protect your employees’ inboxes not only from distracting and annoying spam messages, but also from spam messages that can deliver harmful threats. Compared to on-premises spam filtering, cloud-based spam filtering is an easy way to make use of email spam filters through the use of cloud-based technology.

Cloud-based spam filtering solutions are cost-effective, and require less maintenance, hardware, and time-consuming installations, which also allows greater and easier scalability.

Why are cloud-based spam filtering solutions important?

Cloud-based spam filtering solutions are essential and important for organizations of all sizes, because they provide a cost-effective, up-to-date, and comprehensive approach to protecting companies from disruptive spam and email-borne threats while offering easy implementation.

Defend your organization with cloud-based spam filtering

As spam email messages continue to threaten email servers and user productivity, more organizations are choosing cloud-based spam filtering to protect your organization from disruption and threats.

Spam is a constant irritation, filling up mailboxes and distracting employees from more important matters. But spam can also be a security threat – many messages contain email scams like spear-phishing, ransomware and impersonation fraud attacks that can disrupt business and devastate your organization.

A cloud-based spam filtering solution can effectively stop spam before it reaches your email system, keeping spam messages out of inboxes and email fraud attacks away from your users. With no hardware to install and no software to purchase and maintain, cloud-based anti-spam software lets you implement an anti-spam solution quickly and affordably. A superior cloud-based spam filtering technology will be always up-to-date, informed by the latest threat intelligence and refined by experts to recognize and prevent more spam messages from reaching your system.

How do cloud-based email filtering solutions work?

Cloud-based spam filtering services use updated and advanced databases and technologies to detect and then block spam and malware. They also encrypt and backup your email data, and have multiple servers and data centers to ensure high availability and performance. These solutions also help organizations comply with data protection and privacy regulations.

Cloud-based spam filtering from Mimecast

Mimecast offers a highly effective cloud-based spam filtering solution as part of an all-in-one service for email security, archiving and continuity. As one of the industry's most secure email provider options, Mimecast technology is powered by sophisticated detection engines and advanced threat intelligence to identify and block more known and emerging threats.

Mimecast's cloud-based spam filtering service operates as part of Mimecast's Secure Email Gateway, enabling you to:

Block 99% of spam messages with 0.0001% false positives.
Improve productivity with tools for handling and filing graymail like newsletters and mailing lists.
Minimize calls to the help desk by giving users self-service options for managing blocked and permitted senders.

Cloud-based spam filtering from Mimecast

Mimecast offers a highly effective cloud-based spam filtering solution as part of an all-in-one service for email security, archiving, and continuity. As one of the industry's most secure email provider options, Mimecast technology is powered by sophisticated detection engines and advanced threat intelligence to identify and block more known and emerging threats.

Mimecast's cloud-based spam filtering service operates as part of Mimecast's Secure Email Gateway, enabling you to:

Block 99% of spam messages with 0.0001% false positives.
Improve productivity with tools for handling and filing graymail like newsletters and mailing lists.
Minimize calls to the help desk by giving users self-service options for managing blocked and permitted senders.

Add powerful security to your cloud-based spam filtering

Because spam and email threats are the source of more than 90% of successful hacking attacks, Mimecast complements its cloud-based spam filtering with powerful tools for combating email-borne threats.

Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection provides a suite of tools to scan all inbound email and attachments, preventing users from clicking on malicious URLs, sandboxing or transcribing suspicious attachments, and identifying email that may contain attempts at impersonation fraud.

Mimecast Secure Messaging and Large File Send enable users to securely send email and large attachments directly from their inboxes without having to worry about encryption keys or email encryption software.

And Mimecast Content Control & DLP helps to stop inadvertent and malicious leaks, enforcing compliance with corporate policies and regulations by monitoring and modifying outbound email.

Learn more about cloud-based spam filtering with Mimecast and about how to send a secure email with Mimecast Secure Messaging.

Benefits of Mimecast's cloud-based email filtering

With Mimecast's cloud-based email filtering technology, you can:

Stop 99% of spam with 0.0001% false positives.
Easily handle graymail such as newsletters and mailing lists to de-clutter inboxes and simplify filing.
Protect the infrastructure from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Reduce calls to the help desk by providing users with self-service tools to manage their own spam preferences, permit lists, block lists, and quarantines.
Improve data leak protection – Mimecast Content Control and Data Leak Prevention (DLP) scans all email and compares it with DLP policies to identify accidental and malicious leaks.

Learn more about cloud-based email filtering from Mimecast, and about Mimecast solutions for mobile email management and an email system migration plan.

What is anti-spam?

Anti-spam is a piece of software that aims to detect and block potentially dangerous emails from user inboxes. Anti-spam protocols determine what an unsolicited or unwanted message is. This message, typically flagged as spam, may be legitimate (though still unwanted) or malicious.

What happens if spam email is left unfiltered?

Not all spam email is malicious – some spam emails aim to trick you into purchasing products or services that are fake, others contain advertisements. However, not filtering spam emails can have serious consequences.

Leaving spam email unfiltered can result in several problems, including inbox clutter, security risks such as malware and phishing, resource drain, legal issues, reputational damage, and productivity loss. To prevent these issues, you can use effective spam filters like Mimecast's cloud-based email filtering.