Spam & Virus Filtering: Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange

• Spam & Virus Protection: Layered technologies to actively help protect businesses’ inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses and phishing scams.
• Policy Enforcement: Helps administrators enforce policies they set up to comply with corporate policies on e-mail usage and with government regulations.
• Real-Time Message Trace and Reporting: Gives administrators insight into their e-mail environment by retrieving the status of any e-mail processed by Forefront Online Protection for Exchange in real-time.
• Disaster Recovery - Forefront Online Protection for Exchange helps to ensure no e-mail is lost or bounced by automatically queuing e-mail for up to five days, attempting to deliver the e-mail every 20 minutes.
• Users can receive an email once/day listing the spam that has been filtered. They can recover any messages that have been filtered in error, although this is rare.
• Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange $1.75/user/month More Info

Microsoft Exchange Hosted Encryption

• Policy-based encryption from sender to recipient with no end-user training or software installation.
• The Microsoft encryption process is entirely transparent to the sender, who does not need to do anything other than write and send the message as usual.
• The recipient of an encrypted message authenticates their identity and sets a password to securely open encrypted messages from the Hosted Encryption service, then decrypts and views the message using a browser-based tool.
• Helps manage compliance with security and privacy requirements such as HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley
• Microsoft Exchange Hosted Encryption $1.90/user/month (Requires Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange) More info

How can BEI help with Online Services?

• BEI is an authorized reseller for Microsoft Open Volume Licensing, which how how Microsoft Hosted Exchange Services are sold.
• Configuring Microsoft Online Services requires changing Mx records, configuring the Microsoft interface to effectively work with your Email System and configuring your firewall to accept email from Microsoft data centers. BEI has years of experience and would be glad to assist your organization in making a smooth transition.