Email Security Archives

Retarus Attachment Blocker: Filter emails containing untrustworthy attachments

by Sören Schulte | 15.01.2016 | Product News, Security

Retarus E-Mail Security does not only safeguard you from virus and spam. Also other types of unwanted messages can be easily filtered out: The Retarus Attachment Blocker prevents therefore the receipt of all file attachments which the administrator has classified untrustworthy or which should be precluded from gaining entry to the company infrastructure for other reasons – regardless of their file format.

Experton Security Vendor Benchmark 2016: Experton Group evaluates IT security market

by Sabrina Hiller | 15.12.2015 | News, Security

Be it due to increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, high cost pressure or strict legal guidelines such as the EU Data Protection Regulation or the new German IT Security Act – IT security stands alongside cloud computing, big data, social business and mobile enterprise as one of the topics to which the ITC is currently paying most attention. In its annual survey the Experton Group examined the offerings of 138 service providers who currently play an important role on the security market. Retarus has immediately achieved inclusion in the quadrant “Product Challenger” being positioned as one of the strongest cloud service providers in the category “E-Mail / Web / Collaboration Security”.

Email archiving and encryption – working in tandem

by Sören Schulte | 28.11.2015 | Product News, Security

Regulatory requirements make it mandatory for companies to archive their digital correspondence compliantly for many years. In an age when business emails are increasingly transmitted in encrypted form, this is often much more easily said than done. At first glance audit-proof archiving and encrypted emails appear to be mutually exclusive. Retarus E-Mail Security allows IT managers to easily overcome both challenges simultaneously.

Large E-Mail Handling: What spam and large file attachments have in common

by Sören Schulte | 09.10.2015 | Product News, Security

Email users are seldom pleased to suddenly discover email attachments of several megabytes on their smartphones, while providers and companies justifiably fear that their internal email architecture will be overloaded by “mega mails” – a drawback that large file attachments share with spam messages. This means that a solution is required which fulfills the needs of users and IT administrators alike.

Spam or no Spam: That is the question!

by Sören Schulte | 06.10.2015 | News, Product News, Security

The definition of spam is actually unambiguous: But in everyday life it often happens that users also feel bothered by the mass of newsletters or notification emails in their in-boxes, despite the fact that they may have consciously subscribed to them at some point in the past. How should IT administrators respond to this situation? What does this mean with respect to the configuration of spam filters?