Mimecast, the specialist e-mail management and security company, has recently helped Touchline Media minimise its spam issues and improve its Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliancy.
Touchline Media is part of Naspers, South Africa`s largest media company, with interests in pay television, newspapers, magazines as well as printing, distribution and book publishing.
E-mail is the company`s most widely used business application and forms a critical part of its operations. Despite a spam filter being utilised, vast amounts of spam were still being delivered to user mailboxes, wasting costly bandwidth and the recipient`s time.
"Following the adoption of Mimecast`s software, Touchline Media now has a powerful security, business continuity and e-mail marketing solution," commented Willem Swart, IT Operations Manager Touchline Media. "Our most significant issue was the vast amount of spam that we received on a daily basis, particularly from Germany and China, as we had no way of filtering these foreign language e-mails.
"We soon realised that Mimecast had so much more to offer," added Swart, "not only could they address our security requirements but could also streamline our administration and legal processes. In addition, Mimecast offers a comprehensive e-mail marketing component that ensures that our brand identity is visible through daily enhanced e-mail communications and by automatically standardising signatures and disclaimers with secure active directory synchronisation."
During the trial period, Touchline Media showed a noticeable improvement in bandwidth usage as Mimecast blocked all personal attachments that wasted bandwidth, such as audio files and movie clips; and thus provided a better quality of service for legitimate large business files.
"In my view, Mimecast is the best anti-spam, anti-virus and e-mail management system available," continued Swart. "It will pay for itself within weeks and is simply one of the best pieces of software I have ever implemented within our company.
"Furthermore, the savings didn`t stop there. As a Nasdaq-listed company, we, as well as all companies within the group, are required to adhere to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), as well as be compliant with all local laws and regulations such as the ECT Act and King II report," concluded Swart. "Mimecast provided the tools to easily and effectively allow Touchline to streamline and comply with all international and local statutory, industry and best practice requirements for e-mail retention and management."
As part of the Mimecast service, business-critical e-mail continuity ensures Touchline Media`s e-mail systems are available to send/receive e-mail 24x7x365 via the Mimecast console from anywhere in the world, thus protecting Touchline Media communications from e-mail outages during planned maintenance or unplanned e-mail disasters.
For further information, please contact Niki Wittles, Mimecast RSA: telephone 011 555-5464, fax 011 555-5479, e-mail niki.wittles@mimecast.co.za.
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