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The Cost of Internal Email Spam to Businesses

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  We’re all familiar with email spam — those unwanted email messages that fill our inboxes and waste our precious time. But did you know a significant chunk of that email spam is coming from inside our company , from our co-workers and even our bosses? In fact, internal spam can be even more insidious than external spam. For one thing, anti-spam software can’t detect them because they come from official email addresses. And we’re more likely to waste time opening and reading them, because, after all, our colleagues sent them! What Is Internal Email Spam? Let’s be honest. Some internal emails are obviously spam: chain letters, politics, jokes, even links to the latest viral Tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts, YouTube or TikTok videos. However, some emails that are work-related can end up being considered spam as well. Think of all the internal official emails you were copied in, but turned out to be useless to you. Or how about when one employee chooses to “reply to all” when the ...

Cloud-Based Spam, Virus, Malware, Ransomware, Phishing & Spoofing Email Protection

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  When seeking a reliable hosted email security provider, MailSafi provides an all-in-one cloud-based service offering superior spam, virus, malware, ransomware, spoof and phish email protection. Our Email spam filtering solution guarantees 99.8% protection against email spam and viruses that common commercial anti-virus and anti-spam applications may fail to capture. Our spam filtering service can be customized to suite any small or large corporation. It is easily configured by changing DNS MX records to point to our gateway cloud servers. From here, all your users’ emails will be filtered through our hosted spam filtering servers. After filtering, the filtering servers send out all clean email to the final recipient mailbox. Suspicious emails are sent to a quarantine database. Users can access the database to release email in (case of false positives) or delete spam emails. MailSafi gateway servers are capable of handling large volumes of email traffic or email traffic spikes. W...

The High Cost of Business Email Compromise (BEC)

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  The most common type of cyberattack that businesses suffer from today begins with fraudulent emails. According to a report by the United States FBI, worldwide losses resulting from business email compromise scams amount to over 26 billion dollars over the past three years. This figure continues to rise more so due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the onset of the pandemic, researchers have reported an over 30% increase in fund transfer fraud incidents and social engineering, in addition to the rise in the severity of ransomware attacks. Each business email compromise event is said to cost businesses thousands to one million dollars in revenue loss. 1. What is Business Email Compromise (BEC)? BEC is a form of cyberattack that targets both businesses and individuals. It is referred to as business email compromise as the scam begins with gaining access to a business email. Business email is email that is specifically used for business. Unlike a personal email address, a business em...

8 Reasons Why You Should Outsource Your Spam Filtering

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  Still not sure whether you should outsource your spam filtering? Well, over 80% of organizations have had a virus, worm or trojan successfully infiltrate their network through email. Once spam actually reaches an employee’s mailbox, it leaves your entire corporation at the mercy of your employees doing the right thing. While there are some best-practice guidelines you can offer to your employees, leaving this up to your employees is a huge risk because spammers have perfected the art of fooling email recipients. You’re probably well aware of the benefits of spam protection for your business. Many companies opt to have their anti-spam protection managed in-house by the IT department. Some think it’s cheaper; others think it’s more reliable, and some simply don’t think of bringing in outside help for the battle against unsolicited email . However, there are several advantages to outsourcing your business’s spam filtering. Let’s take a look at some of these. 1. Greater efficiency in...