Hosted Messaging Providers
Comprehensive Messaging Security and Policy Management
Email hosting companies face exciting new opportunities and challenges. While demand for hosting services continues to grow, providers must also confront issues of commoditization and shrinking margins. One key differentiation strategy lies in offering business-class email – an email experience free from spam, phishing, and viruses that could jeopardize enterprise security and hinder productivity.
The enterprise will soon emerge as an attractive target for spammers as consumer email becomes more secure. Hosted email providers must prepare for this onslaught or risk customer churn and runaway infrastructure and operational costs.
With years of proven experience protecting the world's largest ISPs from messaging abuse, Cloudmark brings the industry's highest level for filtering accuracy and performance to hosting providers. That means greater customer satisfaction as well as significant cost savings in storage, bandwidth, and processing resources. Cloudmark's automated and highly efficient solutions also minimize the data center footprint and ease administrative burdens.
Cloudmark Authority® for SpamAssassin™
For Web and email hosting providers running Apache SpamAssassin™, the Cloudmark Authority plug-in dramatically improves system accuracy and performance while leveraging existing rules, lists, policies, and processes. The Cloudmark Authority plug-in can typically be deployed on SpamAssassin in less than 20 minutes, delivering:
- 20-80 percent improvement in filtering accuracy
- 50-90 percent reductions in server resource consumption
- Reduction of 20+ man-hours per week on administration
- Significantly fewer spam-related complaints
Cloudmark Gateway™
For managed service providers hosting mission-critical email and business applications, Cloudmark Gateway offers carrier-grade edge messaging security that combines high filtering accuracy with unsurpassed reliability and availability. Cloudmark Gateway can be deployed in front of existing infrastructure to provide immediate protection without any service interruption. It works seamlessly in these hosted email environments:
- Microsoft® Exchange
- IBM® Lotus Notes/Domino
- Novell® GroupWise
- Open source messaging solutions
Benefits for Hosted Business Email Providers
Customized Security Policies
Cloudmark Gateway's flexible policy-management engine lets carriers and service providers offer individualized email handling to all business customers. Cloudmark Gateway supports a wide range of policies at the workgroup or company level to meet customers' specific security requirements. For example, providers can automatically prevent "company confidential" messages from being delivered outside a specific domain, thereby ensuring stricter compliance to company policies.
System Reliability
High availability and reliability are critical to any managed environment. Through a clustered configuration, with shared intelligence, policy control, and dynamic failover across the cluster Cloudmark Gateway helps providers deliver the highest service levels at all times. In addition, Cloudmark Authority maintains a local cache of threat fingerprints for full redundancy and independence. That means message filtering continues uninterrupted (using locally cached updates) even if connectivity to the Cloudmark updates server is temporarily lost.
Unmatched Performance and Scalability
Each Cloudmark Gateway server can process more than 3 million messages per hour — that's 20 times faster than competitive solutions while consuming less than a tenth of the CPU resources required by traditional filtering techniques.
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