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How much time do you spend going through Spam daily?

Today’s businesses need robust yet simple e-mail threat protection that takes minutes, not hours, per week to manage. Available as a hardened appliance or as Windows software, SonicWALL Email Security provides powerful protection in one simple solution that dramatically reduces the time and expense involved in e-mail security.

SonicWALL Email Security offers the highest possible level of network protection from all inbound and outbound e-mail threats by leveraging a global end-to-end attack monitoring network. Protections include:

· Anti-spam

· Anti-phishing

· Anti-virus & Time-Zero technology

· Policy management

· Connection management

· Zombie detection

· Compliance & content filtering – regulatory & corporate

We implemented this technology at Pilothouse because of the large amount of “spam” that was coming into everyone’s email inbox. It was taking so much time to go through it daily- once we implemented this it immediately stopped. Every day each user gets an easy to read report of all the spam mail that was captured, or you can log into a real-time log of captured spam and have the ability to view any email and “unjunk it” so you don’t miss those important emails that we are waiting for that may be perceived as spam.

Within this product there are many reports that show where this spam is coming from, who’s the top receiver and sender of spam- monitoring outbound spam is also very important, it could indicate someone has hacked into your system and is using your email server as an outbound spam server- you would never know. You will be amazed at the number of junk emails that come to your organization on an hourly basis. You also can see the ROI on a daily basis for your employees not having to deal with these emails.

Here is a staggering stat from our system of only 10 email users from last month: 3371 good emails and 27433 were Junk, (SPAM, Virus or Phishing)

If you are tired of wasting time and expense everyday going through your emails looking for “real” emails, call us for more information on the SonicWALL email security solution we sell. 866-887-5792

Are you SIP yet? My research  has shown that interest in SIP Trunking is high. According to Eric Krapf of No Jitter ” The most-attended breakout session at VoiceCon was the one on SIP Trunking, which surprised the heck out of me. SIP Trunking has become one of the most popular topics at the show, but the biggest? I wouldn’t have expected that.” But users are only just starting to solicit proposals for SIP based carrier services.

Part of the issue is a real fustration with customers about SIP Trunking. They have heard about it,they think that they can save money by going to it and yet they can’t seem to get a SIP service that works.

Another issue is trying to match a carriers services with a phone system, most carriers want to connect to PBX’s that have been certifed, and the same is true for PBX manufactures, they also want to only connect to SIP providers that have been certified. The problem is that there is no ONE standard for SIP Trunking!

So is SIP Trunking main stream technology? The answer is yes. Some carriers have already started delivering services to customers in SIP form and then converting back to traditional forms to interface with the customers equipment. SIP Trunking will become the standard as time goes on. It is more cost effective for the carriers to deliver services that way.

Customers that are looking to go to SIP should start by looking at there phone system. Old equipment will not be able to interface with SIP Trunks. As I mentioned earlier PBX manufactures will have a list of approved carriers. Need more help? We offer PBX solutions from Toshiba and carrier services from several SIP providers including Paetec. Contact Pilothouse Communications at 866-887-5792.