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A complacent attitude when it comes to email and internet security soon adds up financially, with the Australian Federal Police estimating cybercrime is currently costing Australian businesses $4.6 billion a year. Concerns about cyber privacy and security have grown exponentially as the media spotlight is placed on the world’s largest email providers.

Email filtering is the process by which email is sorted by specific criteria. In the case of email spam filtering, it means filtering out the unsolicited and unwanted emails which clog up your inbox and email server. With the vast number of emails sent and received on a daily basis, email filtering has become vital for processing incoming and outgoing emails in accordance with anti-spam techniques.

Email has become a form of communication that companies cannot live without. In many businesses now, email may even be the most important and most commonly and widely used form of communication. In fact, in this year alone, the average business email account will receive 81 new emails per day and send approximately 39 per day (Radicati.com). That’s a lot of material coming in and out of each electronic mailbox!

Google’s updated terms of service, aimed at providing a legal loophole to allow them to crawl through their user’s emails, has been firmly rejected as a practice by online IT security company MailGuard.

With no end in sight, up to nine million businesses are in the midst of an online apocalypse. Wreaking havoc on their businesses in the lead up to the Easter weekend, US based domain host HostGator, has gone offline, causing a worldwide blackout of websites and emails for their customers.

How do you take your email, filtered or non-filtered?

Of all the email directed to a typical business around 75% will probably be junk mail, or spam. In our experience we see anywhere between 50% and 90% across our client base. This spam may be harmless but annoying offers of products, or it could lead to serious damage to a firm's computers or data.

Free email hosting sounds good, what is the true cost? Your personal information. Your security. Your business intelligence. Local jobs.Your privacy. More spam. Is it worth it?

The wait is over! Our new HostedMail product is ready and waiting to replace our previous email hosting service Managed Mail.

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With the festive season quickly approaching and holidays coming up, we thought it would be nice to share two Christmas gifts with our partners and clients.