Email has long been a means and target for cybercriminals — whether the goal is to steal private data contained in messages, or just to use the messages to surreptitiously obtain access credentials that would open the door to other stores of data. Today, CSC has announced an offering that can help protect organizations from such cybersecurity threats. CSC’s CloudProtection for Mail and Web provides security from web-based attacks, stopping the threat before it ever reaches the enterprise customer. CSC officials say that the cloud-based CloudProtection can improve an organization’s security at a lower cost than other on-premise solutions. The official CSC news release also notes their SLAs for the product, “the strongest sets of Service Level Agreements in the industry,” covering the service availability and performance. With CloudProtection, according to the release, every business can ensure that every desktop has the most up-to-date anti-virus software, spam filters and spyware.
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Posts Tagged ‘Email’
CSC Announces New Email Cloud Security Solution
July 22nd, 2010 By AdministratorSpeaking Of Cloud Security And Trust …
July 13th, 2010 By AdministratorWe’re taking some initiative at the blog today and declaring it Cloud Security & Trust Week. We realize it’s not quite a revolutionary thought, nor big news, but it’s a theme that’s trending again and it’s a topic taken seriously in these parts.
And more and more, it’s not a conversation topic exclusive to corporate IT executives. Cloud computing is now a mandatory consideration for most organizations. We’ve written on the blog before about how enterprises not normally associated with computing are finding payoffs in virtualization. A recent post on how the United States Golf Association has adopted cloud computing comes to mind.
Add to these real-world examples the NBA’s Boston Celtics, who’ve stopped talking man-to-man defense to talk about cloud security.
CloudExchange Joins CSC Cloud Solution Portfolio
June 14th, 2010 By Administrator
It’s the best of both worlds when a technology solution improves results and cuts costs at the same time, and that’s the potential with CloudExchange, CSC’s email and collaboration integration that includes Microsoft Exchange 2010-as-a-service.
Enterprises with large-scale communications needs can not only reduce the cost of delivering email to each and every employee, they can foster innovation and increased productivity through instant messaging and video, document sharing and other features of this cloud-based offering.
Cutting Costs With Cloud Computing
February 8th, 2010 By Jay NobleLast year, a Forrester report stated it costs an organization $27 a month a to maintain an electronic mailbox — that’s per user.
There are lots of costs associated with enterprise computing needs when you pull back the covers, and IT services can quickly become expensive in the tally. And every time you move to a new service, there’s a migration cost. Enterprises can’t afford business disruptions while waiting for these transitions to complete. Read more
It’s Official: CSC And Google Take LA To The Cloud
December 14th, 2009 By John ZeberleinToday marks a momentous occasion in enterprise information technology. CSC and Google are excited to kick off our work to help Los Angeles migrate to the cloud and the suite of Google Apps solutions. This is a project to be proud of because of the value and potential it represents, not only to the employees of the City of Los Angeles, but the citizens they serve.
City workers at all levels will transition, for example, from their legacy email system to a cloud-based solution hosted by Google, and CSC will be helping get them there. As an example of the benefits this will bring to the citizens of Los Angeles, moving email to a Google cloud will free up 100 servers and save Los Angeles nearly $750,000 in electricity costs over 5 years.
And that’s just a sample of the value captured in this project.
Email In The Cloud Equals Elasticity
November 13th, 2009 By Pravin SapreFight Spam: Move Email To The Cloud
November 10th, 2009 By Pravin Sapre
With the increasing use of email comes an increase in spam. Spam accounts for 75% to 95% of the email received by typical corporate email servers.
The best defense against spam is to stop it before it even hits your mail servers. A typical corporation spends $7 to $11 per user, per month just to fight spam. This cost to detect and eliminate spam includes maintaining spam filter policies, software upgrades, and infrastructure.
With cloud-based email, this service is included in the subscription fee. Not only do you get spam-blocking, but many providers include virus scanning as part of the solution. Read more
Why The Enterprise Should Move Email To The Cloud — Part I
November 5th, 2009 By Pravin Sapre
Simply put, the cost of email is up to 70% less in the cloud.
Companies largely use Microsoft Exchange or IBM Lotus Notes to run their on-premise email systems. When you consider the total cost of running an email system, you would have to consider several factors such as servers, storage, networking, security, energy, software licensing, software upgrades, and labor cost on administration and support.
All these costs add up to a significant number. Most CIOs would be surprised to see that this cost falls in the $25-$30 range per user per month (Forrester analysis, Jan 2009).
Also, with the increasing volume of emails and attachment sizes, the cost is increasing every year. This is compared to the typical subscription fee Google charges for hosting Google Apps in Cloud for businesses — $50 per user per year — which translates to about $4 per user per month. Read more


















