MessageLabs has introduced a collection of web and
e-mail security services aimed at smaller
organisations.
The services come in three packages: Web Security offers
protection from threats that enter an organisation via the Web,
including viruses, spyware, phishing, Trojans and URL filtering;
E-mail Security protects organisations from spam, phishing, Trojans
and other malware found in the e-mail stream and a third package
combines the two e-mail and Web options.
The services will be fully managed by MessageLabs, enabling
customers to reduce IT resources, including staff, hardware and
software, while increasing their security, MessageLabs
suggested.
Protection from security threats has become particularly
important to smaller businesses, which have become targets for
organised crime. According to MessageLabs’ November threat report,
businesses with fewer than 250 employees receive almost twice as
much spam as medium-sized organisations and 30% more than
enterprises.
All the surveys suggested that organised crime is just as happy
to attack smaller companies as larger ones. MessageLabs is probably
opportune to target the smaller company, though the ‘basic’ naming
of its products implies a user naiveté that many smaller companies
might take exception to.
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