Vade joining the Hornetsecurity group has brought big benefits to customers from both sides, with the combination of filtering technologies high up on the list. In this article, we’ll look at how our filtering has been enhanced and what this means for mailboxes protected by Vade or Hornetsecurity now.
EMAIL FILTERING BASICS
Email has been around since 1971 and has been a mainstay of business communications for at least three decades. And for all that time, spam/junk mail has been a constant scourge in our inboxes, as has phishing and malware-laden emails trying to trick us into opening a dangerous attachment or clicking a link. As such, filtering is required to intercept these unwanted messages and keep email viable.
A reasonable question might be: why is this the case? Why hasn’t this been fixed? There are several contributing factors, starting with the technical foundations. When the email protocols the world still runs on were invented, security wasn’t even a consideration and thus every addition that has been made is a “bolt-on”, not part of the foundations. The 24/7/365 nature of emails also means that new security features must be introduced gradually, which means they’re optional, which limits the adoption and stretches it out over many years.
