Email has undoubtedly become a critical communications tool for New Jersey businesses. Whether you are using email to connect with your customers, distributors, manufacturers or just for internal communications, few companies can exist without it. However, because email has become such a common form of communication, virus attacks and spam are a dangerous fact of life that could derail your email server if you don’t set up a strong NJ network security service.

On-Premise Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall

What’s really nice about the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall is that it is compatible with all email servers and one firewall can handle up to 100,000 active email users. New Jersey businesses, regardless if they have 5 employees or 500, can rest assured that their website and email is safe behind the network firewall. The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall protects your New Jersey email server with twelve unique defense layers, including IP Reputation Analysis, Sender Authentication, Virus Scanning and Spam Fingerprint Check.  Inbound email can be blocked, quarantined, tagged, encrypted or delivered based on your filtering specifications.  The Barracuda Spam Firewall can also be configured to give users control over their individual allow and block lists which further reduces the chance of false positives. This kind of personalization makes the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall a really great tool for New Jersey businesses.

The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall also includes a Cloud Protection Layer to stop spam and viruses in the cloud by scanning inbound emails before delivery. Barracuda Networks also provides software plug-in for Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes end-users.

Outsourced Spam Filtering

Outsourcing spam filtering can make sense, depending on the needs/duties of your New Jersey business server. With as many as 2 out of 3 emails being marked as spam, you need a lot of space to store it, no matter if it gets sent to your blocked, tagged or quarantined folders. By outsourcing the storage requirements to a service provider, you don’t have to allocate as much disk space on your own server. Spam management companies can also help reduce the amount of time you have to spend updating your allow and block lists and searching for false positives. They’ll handle the configuration so you can focus on other, more important tasks.

Outsourcing your spam filtering might also be cheaper upfront, but many tend to get more costly in the long-run of 3-4 years. New Jersey business owners should also make sure that any IT consulting company they outsource their spam filtering to has the ability to eliminate spam AND protect your email server from all forms of malware attacks.

When you look at all the email server security Barracuda Spam Firewall can provide your New Jersey business with, it’s obviously forth the upfront costs.

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