Email Pranks

Email pranks are costing companies like yours millions. Recent studies have shown that bulk email or spam will account for 70% of all internet email this year. While most of this traffic is intended to sell products or services, an increasing percentage are email pranks.

The most popular of these email pranks is the "phishing" (pronounced "fishing") prank, where an email sent from a prankster or swindler is disguised to appear be coming from a legitimate source - usually a financial institution such as a bank or a legitimate online business like an auction site.  While this may be call be some an email prank, it is more like a malicious assault on your privacy, your bank account and your company. It is not a prank at all. Most email pranks today are very sophisticated schemes from very sophisticated and organized criminals.

While email pranks are known problem for individuals, these email pranks are working their way into internal corporate communications systems as well. The results can be even more devastating, with high direct financial costs as well as the ongoing potential loss of productivity caused by finding and disposing of these email pranks.  If clicked on by employees at work, companies are immediately put at risk for a host of other nasty network choking problems such as viruses and worms that may come along with it.

MX Logic helps protect our customer networks against converging email pranks and Web threats with our effective, reliable solutions, which are easy to administer and use, and help organizations to:

• Reduce business disruption
• Safeguard the integrity of business communications
• Increase employee productivity
• Lower IT costs associated with Web and email threat management

All MX Logic online security services are designed to deliver enterprise-grade service and performance, without enterprise-level complexity and cost. Our services offer easy administration and use, are backed by industry-leading threat expertise, and are highly effective in protecting businesses from a wide range of evolving Web threats and email pranks.

• MX Logic® Email Defense Service - Our managed email security service offers comprehensive protection against a wide range of email hoaxes and threats using a combination of proven spam filters, leading anti-virus engines, fraud protection, content filtering, and email attack protection.
• MX Logic® Web Defense Service - Our easy-to-use Web security solution effectively blocks quickly-evolving Web threats, including spyware, viruses and phishing attacks, while enabling greater control over unauthorized Web surfing by employees.

Built on our industry-leading email and Web security technology, MX Logic services are highly effective and reliable, while providing easy activation, administration and use. Our managed services are continually updated to defend against the latest email hoaxes and backed by 24x7 support, relieving customers of the burden of managing their email and Web threat defense in-house, and enabling them to:

• Decrease IT costs and maximize resources
• Decrease network and storage costs
• Increase employee productivity
• Reduce corporate liability

For more information on MX Logic email and Web security solutions, contact us at 1.877.MXLOGIC (1.877.695.6442), via email at info@mxlogic.com, or submit an online inquiry.

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