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title: The 5 Warning Signs Your Email Security is Failing
description: The problem ranges from the merely annoying to significant business threat. About 90% of all email is spam and 1 in 300 contains a virus or Phishing attempt. If your employees are manually filtering email your productivity takes a hit…and if you have to take your system down to clean infections your
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# [The 5 Warning Signs Your Email Security is Failing](https://www.mailguard.com.au/blog/the-5-warning-signs-your-email-security-is-failing/)

 Written by [MailGuard Editor](https://www.mailguard.com.au/blog/author/mailguard-editor) | 23 July 2013 09:11:00 Z

**1. Support**

Email is the primary business contact / communication tool. How long can you afford to wait *without* email or an answer while your email provider responds with “I'll get back to you”.

If you do not receive 24-hour live support from an expert (not outsourced) and a 98% first call resolution rate – you have a problem.

 

**2. Spam and offensive email is on the rise**

The problem ranges from the merely annoying to significant business threat. About 90% of all email is spam and 1 in 300 contains a virus or Phishing attempt. If your employees are manually filtering email your productivity takes a hit…and if you have to take your system down to clean infections your business takes a hit.

If your current solution is not blocking over 99% of spam and delivering a 99.999% false negative / true positive virus capture rate – you have a problem.

 

**3. Email or Console administration access outages**

This is simple. If your business is not guaranteed 100% email delivery and service uptime – you have a problem.

 

**4. Out of date security**

3500 new Malware threats hit the Internet every day. Think you are protected because you receive daily updates from your vendor? Wrong.

If your business is not receiving[ zero hour defense](https://www.mailguard.com.au/blog/defence-in-depth/) that's proven – you have a problem.

 

**5. Excessive bandwidth usage**

This problem is deeper than the productivity hit you take when your network hardware slows down.

If you are paying for spam to use up your bandwidth – you have a problem.

 

**Dont get scammed**

If your company’s email accounts aren’t protected, scam emails like the one above are almost certainly being received by your staff.  Cybercriminals know people can be tricked; that’s why they send out millions of scam messages and put so much effort into making them look convincing.

People are not machines; we're all capable of making bad judgement calls. Without email filtering protecting your business, it’s just a matter of time before someone in your organisation has a momentary lapse of judgement and clicks on the wrong thing.

For a few dollars per staff member per month, you can protect your business with MailGuard's [predictive email security.](https://www.mailguard.com.au/services/mailguard)  
Talk to an expert at MailGuard today about making your company's network secure: [click here.](https://www.mailguard.com.au/contact)

 

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