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SECURE EMAIL DRILL DOWN

SECURITY CAN BE MORE COMPLETE IN A HOSTED ENVIRONMENT

Email is one of the easiest ways for hackers, spammers, and other malicious threats to penetrate and disrupt business operations. Yet because of the complexity of email security today, bringing messaging solutions to the highest level of security requires full-time security specialists — a measure that many businesses find cost prohibitive for in-house email, but that comes as an included part of all our hosted services.

For an in-depth analysis of the case for more complete and robust secure email in a hosted services environment, please download the White Paper "Best Practices for Securing Exchange Email."

SECURE EMAIL CAN BE "BUILT IN"

With a hosted solution from USA.NET, security is not an "add-on." It is built into the very nature of the solution: the people, the processes and the technology are all engineered around and integrated with security.

Iron-clad email security solutions require far more complexity than a one-time technology implementation.

To provide the end-to-end security required by today's business, an ideal security program involves a finely tuned ‘information security triad' consisting of expertise in the areas of people, processes, and technology. Only through coordinated excellence in each of these areas can an email host proactively mitigate the risks inherent to the ongoing operations of its customers.

Whatever USA.NET services and solutions you choose, they will be provided in a secure environment.

SECURITY AT USA.NET INVOLVES ALL THREE LINKS IN THE "SECURITY CHAIN": PEOPLE, PROCESS AND TECHNOLOGY

Secure Email Triad

SECURE EMAIL CAN BE ROBUST, RELIABLE AND BUILT INTO BUSINESS PROCESSES

To achieve the 99.9% uptime and robust security that customers have come to expect, USA.NET aligns our operational procedures with best practices followed by big technology partners such as Cisco® and Microsoft® as well as USA.NET's own proprietary practices that have been fine tuned over 11+ years of email hosting.

SECURITY CAN ENHANCE BUSINESS CONTINUITY

With email hosting solutions from USA.NET, day-to-day security is complemented by security in the face of business or natural interruptions. USA.NET's state-of-the-art backup capabilities and strategies and complete redundancy in our architecture (no single point of failure) result in unrivaled data recovery times and can bring "business as usual" quickly within reach.

EMAIL SECURITY CAN HELP WITH EMAIL COMPLIANCE

In an era of intense regulation, a hosted email solution must not only be secure, but must be "secure with the tools to assist with email compliance." A key part of email compliance today is the ability to assure regulators that your email trail is not only intact and accessible but also easily searched and referenced. USA.NET's sophisticated archiving and eDiscovery capabilities make compliance much less of a challenge, whatever the configuration of your solution.

EMAIL SECURITY CAN BE CERTIFIED

While a SAS 70 audit gives us (and you) a snapshot in time of the validity of our procedures, USA.NET goes the extra mile for our clients with a SAS 70 Type II audit. It not only defines and validates procedures through a third party, but monitors those procedures for performance through time.

SECURITY CAN BE MOBILE

The question most companies ask themselves is, "Who isn't mobile these days?" USA.NET has years of experience extending robust security to various individuals and groups of employees in mobile and remote work situations.

To support your mobile requirements in a secure method, USA.NET offers a number of critical mobility security features such as mandatory password entry capability to prevent corporate data on mobile devices from unauthorized access, or manual remote device "kill" in the event a mobile device is lost or stolen.

SECURITY IS ENHANCED BY FULLY QUALIFIED PEOPLE

We make certain our people are the best through background checks, strictly defined employee roles (who has access to what, and when) and highly regarded industry certifications, including: MCP, MCP+1, MCSE NT/Windows, A+, Citrix, BlackBerry, CCSE, CCSA, CCNA/CCDA,CCNP/CCDP, CISSP, MSP, LPI, HP-UK, ITIL, Microsoft Hosting, and Mobility certification.

Because we keep our employees continually at the leading edge of security, we have an industry-high level of employee loyalty and longevity.

SECURITY CAN BE MANAGED EFFECTIVILY EVEN AS BUSINES PRACTICES AND TECHNOLOGY CHANGES

Processes are only valid if they change quickly to accommodate and engage changes in business and technology. At USA.NET, change management is built into the basic procedures that are used to manage your hosted solution. That way, you are always ahead of the curve (and ahead of the threats), employing the latest in email technology

EMAIL SECURITY SOLUTIONS INVOLVE "BRICKS AND MORTAR" TOO

The location, layout, and physical security at an email host's data center are just as important as its logical security. We believe a Tier 1 or 2 data center provides inadequate physical asset protection and toleration of up to 28.8 hours of downtime per year!

On the other hand, our Tier 4 facility, the highest-rated, offers a layered, secure data defense model comprised of power redundancy through separate power grids with automatic failover; redundant backbone for cabling infrastructure; gated and badged access to the facility parking area; access to and within the building controlled with biometric readers and single-person entryways; and live, 24x7x365 on-site CCTV monitoring of the parking area, building entrances, and interior areas of the building. To achieve this rating, a Tier 4 facility can only tolerate up to 0.4 hours of downtime per year.

NOT ALL HOSTED VENDORS ARE EQUALLY SECURE!

Having made the decision to go with hosted email, it is important to know that not all email hosting services providers offer the same level of security.

USA.NET's track record speaks for itself. The company helps both SMBs and large businesses — including United Airlines, Farmers Insurance, Realogy, Intertek and others -- address all aspects of risk with an affordable, multi-point solution that reacts swiftly to today's ever-changing threat landscape.

USA.NET is also a Perimeter eSecurity company. This gives us even greater resources to assure that your hosted solutions as well as other areas of your business are completely secure, regardless of the uniqueness of your situation. Your transition team will give you a complete roadmap that will show you exactly how you can easily and cost-effectively go from a possibly risky security environment to one that is state-of-the-art.

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