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Executive Summary
Situation – Online Threats Have a Significant Impact on Small & Medium Businesses (SMBs) While the Internet has proven to be a vital communications medium, it also presents a wide range of threats that can cripple a business. This is especially true for smaller organizations that lack the extensive enterprise-class IT resources necessary to defend against Internet threats. Small to mediumsized businesses (SMBs) receive as much and sometimes even more spam as larger enterprises but are less likely to thwart the dangerous consequences. This can have severe repercussions for SMBs from a legal, technical and company reputation perspective. In particular, external online attacks and internal misuse of sensitive information can impose significant brand and/or image damage to an SMB. This kind of publicity can cost an SMB the loss of essential business opportunities and long-term reputation damage.
Problem – SMBs Lack the Internal Resources to Effectively Address Online Threats For SMBs, threats such as spam can very quickly become a silent killer, overwhelming the resources of a mail system or network before effective countermeasures can be applied. Unfortunately, smaller companies often don’t have the time or specialized IT resources to install, configure, and maintain an appropriate array of security hardware and software to continuously address the scope of threats from the Internet. However, to adequately protect themselves and their stakeholders, SMBs must do more than merely establish internal communication policies; they must also use effective administration tools to manage existing policies, block unauthorized content and malware, and proactively monitor all communication-related behaviors on both an individual and group level. Also, they must be able to accomplish this level of security protection at a reasonable cost that does not impose a heavy financial burden on the organization to the point of negatively impacting bottom-line profitability.
Solution – MessageLabs Provides SMBs with Complete Protection from All Online Threats MessageLabs is the leading provider of security solutions across all forms of information communications for the SMB marketplace. As a managed service, The MessageLabs Complete Security and Control suite of services offers a comprehensive set of communication security solutions to protect businesses from all email and web-borne threats. The service requires no additional hardware or software on a customers’ network, conveniently removing the need for on-site maintenance and layers of complexity having to be added to the information infrastructure. MessageLabs provides SMBs with enterprise-class service and support that allow management to focus on the needs of the business, without worrying about the details of managing communications security. MessageLabs also uses a simple, affordable, fixed monthly pricing plan, based on the total number of users, rather than use volume, which makes it much easier to budget for this expense.
Result – Online Threats are Intercepted Before They Can Impact the Business MessageLabs leading role in the security services industry is the result of an extensive commitment to research, investigation, and proactive threat tracking of all communications-related online threats. This knowledge is used to develop the most secure communications security solutions for SMBs by learning about threats and averting them before they can impact the business. The system works by first identifying threats outside of the SMB network and filtering items such as viruses and unwanted content before they enter the network.
With a global presence spanning four continents, clients in more than 80 countries, and an infrastructure capable of processing hundreds of millions of electronic communications each day, MessageLabs provides small and medium sized businesses with complete security and integrity for all communications activities.
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