White Papers for Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)

Email Content Security for Small or Medium Businesses

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Small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) have special needs when it comes to Information Technology. Large-scale businesses usually have large budgets and are happy to invest in the latest and greatest technology. Small businesses often wait until new technologies have been proven and become more mainstream. One such technology is Email Content Security (ECS). Issues such as spam, phishing and email compliance have raised the profile of ECS. ECS is a security technology that a lot of large businesses have utilized for many years; beginning with the need to control email viruses, then spam, and now adherence to email regulatory and internal Acceptable Use Policy compliance.

Today, ECS is considered an essential element of any business email environment, just as a firewall is considered an essential part of any sound IT security system. As a result a lot of SMB customers are now investing in ECS systems. However, unlike firewalls, where there is really only one general solution, there are many flavors of ECS. This has the effect of making life difficult for an SMB as there are a multitude of choices and wild variances in price and quality.

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