Forrester: SaaS is a No-brainer for Anti-spam

TechTarget's got a good IT security tip article today about email security for mid-market companies, explaining the advantages of Software-as-a-Service solutions for anti-spam. The focus is on small- to mid-size companies in this article, but many of the same advantages translate to larger companies as well.

One of the sources in the article is Forrester analyst Jonathan Penn, who explains that mid-size enterprise IT departments, "don't want to have to go through fine-tuning and tweaking filters. They'd rather spend the money hiring someone who's savvy in something else that has a lot more relevance."

As Forrester analyst Chenxi Wang also told us recently, Penn says that there's really no reason for mid-size companies to not go with SaaS for anti-spam. He says:

"Really a no-brainer to go into direction of service providers. There's really no good reason these days for a smaller organization that doesn't have that kind of expertise in-house already, that kind of staffing, that kind of competency dedicated to email management to go with a product."

You can read the full TechTarget article here:

Software-as-a-service a good choice for fighting spam

As the article notes, pricing differences between appliance and SaaS anti-spam solutions are often not as large as they once were. (Of course, Proofpoint offers both types of deployment options.) However, the SaaS model for email security almost always offers lower total-cost-of-ownership over time, along with many additional benefits. You can learn more about that topic in the following whitepaper from Proofpoint and Osterman Research:

Using SaaS to Reduce the Costs of Email Security