IBM Express Managed Security Services for e-mail security

While e-mail is a critical business tool, it also carries threats to the security of your business — viruses, spam, pornographic material and other harmful content. IBM Express Managed Security Services for e-mail security can help you mitigate the risks inherent in Internet e-mail communications through a comprehensive suite of services. This IBM Express Portfolio™ solution is designed to act as your first line of defense, scanning your e-mail and eliminating threats before they reach your network.

Choose from four modular options that intercept and dispose of e-mails containing viruses, spam, pornography and other undesired content. Powered by MessageLabs, a global leader in managed e-mail security services for businesses, this IBM managed service is designed to offer better protection and faster response to emerging threats than can be achieved in-house – at a much lower cost.

IBM Express Managed Security Services for e-mail security is designed to:

Deliver a clean inbox without viruses, spam or unwanted content

Stop and store e-mail threats away from your network

Deliver a low total cost of ownership (TCO) and predictable costs based on usage

Require no additional hardware, software or updates

Help manage cash flow and reallocate cash to invest in core areas of your business

Feature easy, location-independent setup and administration

Provide worldwide 24x7 service and support with threat monitoring and response

Give you realtime protection at time of virus outbreak

Allow you to access future e-mail security services as they become available

Boost end-user productivity

Grow as your needs grow

Combat dynamic and evolving threats with continuous updates using artificial intelligence and self-learning engines

Work with virtually any type of e-mail system

Managed e-mail Security Pricing

Number of users	Number Of Required Modular Options
	1	2	3	4
Up to 250 users	£1.40	£1.99	£2.52	£2.97
251 - 500 users	£1.26	£1.80	£2.27	£2.68
501 - 1000 users	£1.05	£1.50	£1.89	£2.23
1001 - 2500 users	£0.84	£1.20	£1.51	£1.78
2501 - 5000 users	£0.77	£1.10	£1.38	£1.64
5001 - 15,000 users	£0.70	£1.00	£1.26	£1.49
Over 15,000 please contact Life IT to discuss your options.

This IBM managed service is designed to offer better protection and faster response to emerging threats than can be achieved in-house — at a much lower cost. The service gives you the flexibility to choose only the security components you need. The four modular options include anti-virus, anti-spam, pornography filtering and content control.

Eliminating viruses

Unlike desktop virus software, the anti-virus service option cleans e-mail of viruses before it reaches your network, helping to protect infrastructure and employees against the downtime caused by virus infections.

The anti-virus service harnesses multiple virus scanners as well as predictive technology, to detect and stop all viruses entering and leaving your organization. The service is designed to identify new viruses, both known and unknown, without any need for signature updates — even during critical “zero hour” outbreaks. If a virus is detected, the e-mail is automatically stopped and held in quarantine for 30 days.

Reducing spam

The anti-spam service combines predictive technology with signature technology, as well as your fully customizable sender lists, to stop nearly all spam – known and unknown – with a very low false positive rate. Spam is identified and rerouted before it reaches your network, and you can specify how intercepted spam should be handled — so employees can focus on other tasks. Plus, spam is quarantined outside your network, alleviating bandwidth issues and significantly reducing the demands made on valuable storage space.

Filtering pornography

This image control solution combines multiple techniques — including the Skeptic technology's groundbreaking image composition analysis — to detect and control pornographic images. The service allows for different sensitivity settings and routing options depending on your acceptable use policies, and can identify pornography entering and leaving your organization.

Controlling content

Applying a combination of advanced technology and configurable usage rules, the content control option enables you to identify and control confidential, malicious or inappropriate content sent or received by your organization. You can build your own rules to govern the filtering of inbound and outbound e-mail. The service can help manage the flow of information to meet the growing need to comply with government regulations, as well as offering protection against the loss of hard-earned brand equity and enforcement of your acceptable usage policies.