Email and website filtering and security

You wouldn’t let just anyone in through the front door of your business. And you shouldn’t let just any email or website in via your internet connection either. Our email and web filtering services let you control what messages and websites people in your company send, receive or view.

Keeping your business email safe

Email filtering examines email entering and leaving your company. Depending on the options you choose, it can perform a number of tasks for you:

• Filter out spam. Everyone hates junk email – it clogs up your inbox, obscures legitimate messages and contains horrendous spelling. Get it removed before you ever see it.
  
• Delete phishing emails. No, you have not won the lottery in some faraway country. Nor are you due a large tax refund. Email filtering removes emails from scammers before anyone gets taken in.
  
• Eliminate viruses and other nasties. Email is one of the main ways viruses and malware spread from computer to computer. With filtering, you can neutralise infected emails before they do damage.
  
• Create an email archive. As emails flow in and out of your business, you can automatically store copies of important messages, just in case anything happens to your employees’ inboxes.
  
• Create an audit trail. For some businesses, it’s important to know who emailed who and when. Others just like to be able to track back through communications. Either way, we have it covered.

Email filtering inspects every email sent to your business, before it hits your own systems. This means harmful messages don’t come near you – so they can’t do any damage.

Blocking harmful websites

Sure, the internet is a wonderful thing. But it can be a headache too. If it’s not the risk of virus or malware infection from dodgy websites, it’s the worry that employees are wasting time on Facebook or viewing material that’s inappropriate for the workplace.

Our website filtering service helps you provide safe web access to everyone in your organisation – protecting them from dangerous and inappropriate sites, without being over-restrictive.

• Block infected websites. It’s not just email that can taint your company systems with viruses and malware. There are millions of infected websites out there – web filtering identifies and blocks them.
  
• Control internet access. Even the best staff get distracted online occasionally. With web filtering, you can block defined websites – either altogether, or at certain times of the day.
  
• Stop dodgy sites entirely. What your staff get up to at home is their business. But some websites really aren’t right for the workplace. You don’t want an HR nightmare on your hands.

Web filtering uses a number of methods to identify sites which should be controlled or blocked. You can set up your own rules, blocking specific web addresses or sites. But there’s also a central list of thousands of blocked sites, which gets updated regularly – and intelligent filtering that identifies potential problems fast.

Ready to find out more?

To find out how email and website filtering can help protect your business, give us a call on 01628 550030.