Here is why ITA Secure Messaging is such an important asset to have in your company. Blocking spam is a "given" feature in ITA Secure Messaging. The following reasons talk about benefits other than email filtering. 1 - Email statistics Do you know how many messages are going through your server? You probably have some idea of how many messages are being sent to valid inboxes in your company, but what about the messages that never show up in any inbox. ITA Secure Messaging will tell you exactly how many emails are coming in and going out of your company. It will allow you to answer the following questions. Where are messages coming from (IP Address, country, and sender's email) Who is getting these messages How many messages were processes (inbound and outbound) 2 - No DLL hell ITA Secure Messaging does not install any DLL on your Exchange server or change any configuration. This is very important from an Exchange server administrator's perpective. Most administrator invest significant amount of time in configuring their email server. Therefore, adding or removing any third party anti-spam/virus solution should not affect the existing servers. ITA Networks realizes this concern and therefore, installing or removing ITA Secure Messaging does not affect any of your existing installation. 3 - Intrusion detection Do you know how many users connect to your email server but do not send any email? The intention of such connections is not to send email but to gather information about your server, network, users id and passwords. ITA Secure Messaging's intrusion detection system will tell you exactly who is running such queries against your server. Click here for more information on Intrusion detection. 4 - Hide your server's identity Microsoft Exchange 2003 exposes its identity to any outside user. It provides the vendor name, version number and sometimes internal IP addresses and/or domain name of your server to the outside world, which is very useful information for any malicious user. ITA Secure Messaging allows you to hide the identity of your server from any such user; hence, minimizing the potential of an attack or misuse. 5 - Double protection Microsoft introduced many new security and anti-spam features in MS Exchange 2003. Although this is definitely a step forward in combating spam and viruses, it may not be enough. For example, the anti-spam features in Exchange 2003 rely on RBL servers for black listed IP Addresses. ITA Secure Messaging's rule engine does not rely on just the IP address. It uses more than 40 different mechanisms to decide the category of a message. 6 - Filter inbound and outbound Same installation of ITA Secure Messaging can check for both inbound and outbound traffic. ITA Secure Messaging comes with two SMTP servers: Proxy and Staging. Depending upon your network configuration either both or one can be turned on to process messages. Click here for more information regarding the Staging and Proxy server. 7 - Outstanding technical support Free technical assistance is just a phone call away. ITA Networks strives to create the highest quality products. However, there may come a time when you require technical support. Give us a call and we will help you solve your problem right over the phone. You can also send us email at support@itanetworks.com. 8 - Let your users manage their own rules There three types of users in ITA Secure Messaging: Administrator - With super-user previleges. Rule changes have global affect. Domain Administrator - Manages one domain and rule changes apply to one domain. Individual users - Actual end user. Any rule modified by such user only affect them. No one else is affected. Every user can optionally get an email on daily basis summarizing the quarantined messages from their INBOX. They can restore and change rules right from that email message. Alternatively, they can also log in to a website to accomplish the same task. 9 - Flexible installation Flexible installation options provide the administrator ability to install ITA Secure Messaging on the existing e-mail server, separate dedicated server, or as an appliance. Create separate spam policy for each domain in a multi e-mail domain environment. 10 - Message disclaimers Configurable discliamer text can be appended to all or some messages going through the server. This can contain confidentiality statements or any other message you desire.