Clean e-mail is one of the major steps in developing a network security policy.  Firstlight makes it easy to clean mail from spam and viruses from all company communications before they make it to your inbox.

Most people are bothered with the daily presence of unwanted mail in their inbox. Much of the junk mail is benign, but some can be dangerous for your network. Viruses and phishing attacks are often delivered through e-mail and can expose you to things from ranging from pranks to identity theft.

Around the world, it is estimated that spam and dangerous e-mails cost companies nearly $200 billion in IT-related costs in 2007! While spam violates almost all ISP (Internet Service Provider) acceptable use policies, the cost of dealing with it unfortunately falls on the recipient, not the sender.

At Firstlight, our goal is to eliminate threats to your network before they cost downtime, productivity loss, and most seriously, data loss. Today, Firstlight scans and cleans millions of e-mails every month through our redundant server bank based on Fort Systems DefenderMX platform. This distributed technology allows us to provide thousands of users access to what would normally be cost-prohibitive leading-edge technology.

How AntiSpam Works

One of the questions we get asked often is if the AntiSpam systems are accurate and effective. Detecting spam is a complex process that requires sophisticated software and hardware. Spammers have gotten increasingly clever at disguising their messages. Firstlight's system is both highly accurate and effective in eliminating over 97% of junk mail.

When a message is sent to a customer on our system, it first gets delivered to the DefenderMX software running at our data center. That software runs hundreds of checks on every piece of mail to determine its possible spam score. Those checks range from sender address verification to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of attached graphic files. Based on the score the system assigns, the mail is either delivered, tagged, or rejected. The system also looks for viruses based on a scanner that is updated daily.

Whitelists and blacklists give end users more control over message delivery by specifically allowing or denying mail from certain addresses, domains, or IP addresses.

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