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 Email Management Tools
A lot of very sensitive information passes through email. For this reason, it is critical to find an email management tool that is safe and secure, to protect oneself against corporate espionage or identity theft. A major selling point of an email management tool is its ability to filter out viruses and spyware. These things can both corrupt files as well as leave "Trojan horses" on a computer that can read or steal important information.
One argument against using a web-based email management system is that it makes email more prone to intrusion by hackers. This is not true. In fact, an in-house server is more likely to be broken into by hackers than an outsourced management system.
The difference is that an outsourced management tool will be monitored 24 hours a day. It is impossible to monitor an in-house system on a permanent basis. It is simply not feasible for an in-house IT management team to monitor the email system 24/7 to see if it has been breached by hackers.
To combat these issues of email security, it is important to find a secure email management tool. Load.com has redundant protection on its email servers. At Load we have a long list of major corporate clients who know that we take their security, and yours, very seriously. You can feel secure knowing your emails are not being read by anybody but the intended recipients. That being said, it is important for any business to have desktop spyware scanners and firewalls, in addition to email protection. Spyware can come from downloads or even surfing the Web, which unfortunately, a management system could not guard against.
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