Sunbelt Software White Paper Sample

Executive Summary
Security is the most single critical task for any email administrator. Starting with a foundation of anti-spam and anti-virus capabilities, organizations should focus on other capabilities, as well, including policy management and a variety of other tasks designed to protect the network and the company from external and internal threats.

There are a number of ways to deploy messaging security, including appliances, software installed on dedicated servers, hosted or managed services and installation of software directly on the email server itself. While there are proponents and opponents of these approaches, there seems to be relatively strong opposition to the last approach on the part of many email administrators.

Osterman Research conducted a survey for Sunbelt Software to determine attitudes toward installing security software directly on servers that run Microsoft Exchange Server. Because many IT decision makers have an aversion to installing any third-party software directly on the hardware that runs Exchange Server, we wanted to determine how strong this aversion might be, as well as the potential for addressing the concerns that lead to many decision makers’ reluctance to install any third-party on Exchange Server.....