Exchange Email Hosting Security – Learn More about Forefront

When you sign up for our Exchange email hosting, you can rest assured the security of your data is at the heart of our service.

Microsoft’s Forefront protection for Exchange on premise and online coupled with Microsoft’s Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is used to secure your data at all times and it’s proven to be extremely robust and reliable.

Microsoft has great confidence in Forefront security for Exchange email hosting which is demonstrated by their high levels of service agreement including;

• 100% known virus protection
• A minimum of 98% detection of spam emails

Our Exchange email hosting security through Forefront effectively deals with three main areas of email security; anti-virus protection, effective threat management and secure access to your hosted exchange service wherever you are

Exchange email hosting anti-virus protection

In the world of email security, prevention is definitely better than cure. Here’s an introduction to what we can provide through our Exchange email hosting and Forefront security technology

• Identify and distinguish any email threats before they even reach your own Firewall security.
  This is provided by multiple layers of security – Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) and Microsoft Forefront for Exchange 2010. Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange is a service hosted by Microsoft which is the first port of call for any email entering your hosted exchange mailbox, this is the off premise version of Forefront Protection for Exchange 2010 (FFPE). Once messages have been cleansed they then route into our servers and are further interrogated by our on-premise versions of Forefront, Forefront Protection for Exchange. FFPE is deployed at multiple levels and provides security in depth using multiple scan engines


• Multiple layers of anti-virus and anti-spam protection for peace of mind


• Advanced email monitoring which make sure your company’s policies are being adhered to in terms of expressions used in online communications internally and externally

While the features above provide the functionality, at Incontech we back up this leading security technology with our customer service.

We understand that when you have an issue with your emails, time is money, and we’re here to help your business get back to normal as soon as possible.

Effective Threat Management

The second main area of Exchange email hosting security we provide is effective threat management.

Emails

This threat management from Forefront deals with any malware contained in email messages and attachments. Malware can be a real headache for businesses. We’ve all seen emails with humorous attachments that get forwarded on to lots of different accounts. This has the potential to infect every machine within your business and slow down productivity.

Catching malware using Forefront via our Exchange email hosting service before it even reaches any recipients is the key to keeping your business computers safe.

 Secure Access

The third area of Exchange email hosting security we provide is secure client access.

Microsoft’s Forefront Threat Management Gateway (FFTMG) provides secure access to your business hosted Exchange service. As well as front level firewalls, Incontech utilise FFTMG to securely publish your service to you wherever you are. Your business information stays encrypted all the way up to your mailbox which means it remains encrypted when traversing our datacentre networks as well as the internet. FFTMG is a powerful threat management solution which provides application level deep packet inspection and makes sure any data entering our datacentre is free from any hidden threats.

Leaving your emails open to potential malware problems is risky and could result in a lot of expense to put things right if your business PCs became infected.

Take the savvy approach to email security with Exchange hosting from Incontech. Call us or contact us via our Quick Contact form.