For today's organizations email is absolutely critical to the health and efficiency of business-critical applications. Proper management and protection from the growing array of threats that impact it is an increasingly vital initiative. Systems designed to protect email systems and users from spam, viruses, malware, phishing attacks and other threats must be extremely effective. They must operate with virtually no downtime and they must be easy to manage.

This white paper presents the results of a survey to organizations that are using five different email management systems including: Barracuda Spam Firewall, GFI MailEssentials, McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange, and Symantec Brightmail and Sunbelt Ninja Email Security.