The FrontBridge solution is very reasonably priced.   Since it is likely that most employees spend more than 30 minutes per month dealing with SPAM, FrontBridge pays for itself immediately.

FrontBridge offers a no-risk 30-day free trial, which is a testament to their confidence that you will be happy with their service.

FrontBridge, who has recently teamed with Sprint (see article), has been ranked as the #1 Spam Filtering Solution by The Gartner Group, an IT research and analysis company.

The SPAM and virus filtering process is accomplished by pointing your MX (mail exchange) record to FrontBridge’s network.  This configuration is what makes their service unique in comparison to many other anti-SPAM solutions on the market.  In addition, FrontBridge also scans each piece of mail for viruses and thwarts those viruses from ever getting to your network, which nicely supplements your existing server-based anti-virus solution.  In our opinion, this is one of the best things about this service.

Should your Internet connection or your mail server be down for any period of time, FrontBridge will hold all your mail for you until these issues get resolved.  This feature has already saved a number of clients from losing mail while major network issues had to be addressed, and each of those clients were amazed to see how well it worked out.

From a security standpoint, FrontBridge's solution has been designed in such a way that it cannot open email in the sense that most people are familiar with, such as from within a Microsoft Outlook client.  Their system searches for particular characteristics that would deem an email as SPAM.  Once identified, each SPAM message gets stored at their site for the mailbox owner to browse through the captured messages at a time of their choosing to confirm whether the mail is indeed SPAM, which turns out to be most if not all the time.   FrontBridge's advertised false positive ratio of 1 in every 250,000 messages shows an extraordinarily high degree of accuracy.

FrontBridge's network has never once been down in its 2+ operating years.

The end user has the flexibility of assigning an administrator to easily manage filtering configurations through a user-friendly web interface.

If you own your own mail server, backup jobs will dramatically reduce in size because the server will no longer process or store unwanted messages that take up valuable hard drive space.

Your network will enjoy improved Internet connection speeds as a result of reduced inbound SPAM.

All of FrontBridge's technical staff endures intense security screenings before being hired, so FrontBridge has made sure to address this concern of its potential users.