EHS Filtering

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Provides malware protection for your email:

Real-time threat prevention
Multi-layer anti-spam and anti-virus
Customized content and policy enforcement

Exchange Hosted Filtering incorporates multiple filters to actively help protect businesses' inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations. EHS Filtering is the base service when you are also considering EHS Archiving, Continuity, and Encryption.

Electronic messaging is mission-critical, but with viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks, spam, the need to satisfy a growing set of government regulations, and legal actions that call for e-mail as evidence, effective message security and management is increasingly difficult.

Solution Overview
Virus Protection Features
Exchange Hosted Filtering helps protect organizations from known viruses and helps provide zero-day threat protection against virus outbreaks. At the core of the service's virus-fighting strategy are multiple, antivirus engines that are integrated at the application programming interface level to continually provide critical virus definition updates. Exchange Hosted Filtering uses at least three different antivirus engines at all times with the ability to immediately engage additional engines when acute threats warrant additional coverage.

Spam Protection Features
Powered by multiple filtering engines and an around-the-clock team of anti-spam experts, Exchange Hosted Filtering virtually eliminates spam from inboxes, helping provide bandwidth for legitimate corporate use, free precious server and storage resources, and decrease the risk of loss of sensitive information or identity theft.

Captured spam is routed to the spam quarantine folder and can be accessed by administrators or end users at any time through an intuitive Web-based interface. An e-mail notification that lists newly quarantined spam can be configured to send to each valid e-mail address. This simplifies the end user experience by making review of spam simple and effective. Exchange Hosted Filtering offers the spam quarantine Web-based interface and HTML notifications in several languages.

Policy Enforcement
Exchange Hosted Filtering helps administrators enforce policies they set up to comply with corporate policies on e-mail usage and with government regulations, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 17a, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) rules 3010 and 3110, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The intuitive policy rule writer makes it easy to monitor and manage e-mail messages based on virtually any message attribute, such as originating IP, sender, recipient, message size, file attachment, or specific text in the subject or body.

Disaster Recovery
If a customer's e-mail server or Internet connection becomes unavailable for any reason, Exchange Hosted Filtering helps to ensure that no e-mail is lost or bounced. Microsoft queues inbound e-mail in a security-enhanced environment for up to five days. After the customer's e-mail servers recover, all queued e-mail is automatically forwarded in a flow-controlled fashion. In cases of extended downtime, e-mail can be rerouted to another server.

Benefits

Enhanced protection from multiple filtering layers helps secure networks from unwanted e-mail
Increased end-user productivity as a result of a cleaner, safer inbox from superior spam filtering
Virtually no impact to legitimate e-mail from incorrect filtering
Intelligent detection algorithms and continual updates from the expert spam team help eliminate tuning by administrators
Features to help support enforcement of e-mail policies
Creation of custom-fit policy rules with flexible rule authoring
Comprehensive set of SLAs backing network performance and spam/virus filtering effectiveness

EHS Filtering SLAs

Exchange Hosted Filtering provides a comprehensive set of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) covering network performance and spam and virus filtering effectiveness that are on par with the leading competitors
Each SLA is backed by a financial commitment from Microsoft

What Next
Are you looking for more information than what you found on our website? Our Microsoft EHS Consultants would be happy to answer questions and arrange demonstrations. Simply fill out the request form below or call 310-337-4521 between 8am and 5pm PST, Monday through Friday.

EHS Filtering is available on Microsoft volume licensing (Open, Select, Enterprise) or on shorter terms (month to month and annual contracts). We'd be happy to provide you with a no-obligation quote.

Contact Us

If you’d like to speak to someone on the phone, please call our Software as a Service group at 800-694-4413.

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