Your Private Email Network is the “gated community” of the email world. Members are approved by your organization, and can be banned from the community at the first sign of abuse. Message throttling prevents inappropriate use of the Private Email Network to send large volumes of email (unsolicited emails). Automatically block specific users or IP addresses based on criteria specific to your organization.

Your Private Email Network also eliminates unwanted ‘spam’ email and messages: limit communication to a specific user group. With basic email, anyone who can guess your email address can contact you, with or without your consent. Once a spammer has your email address, they can contact you from as many different email addresses as they like, as often as they like. There have been major advances in the area of spam filtering, but large amounts of spam messages still manage to get through every day, wasting your time and hurting your productivity. Since Private Email Networks are only available to verified members, they are a tool for organizations to control the flow of spam into their network. Bulk ‘emailers’ are therefore unable to send secure email2 messages to your employees using the company Private Email Network. Since sender identity is always known, there is built-in accountability and an implied trust for all messages being received. Spam does not exist in messages sent via the Private Email Network because spammers do not have access to this exclusive gated email community. Additionally, the email2 Security Platform does not interfere with external email programs; third party anti-spam solutions will still work perfectly alongside the email2 Security Platform.

If your organization receives an enormous amount of email on a daily basis, as is the case with a government organization, you may want to consider simply ‘ignoring’ basic email and focus exclusively on secure email2 messages. Using the Secure Webmail client, basic email messages are not present, and therefore it is 100% spam-free.

The risk of contracting a computer virus is also mitigated by using the email2 Security Platform. Computer viruses are often transmitted via email attachments, and some are so virulent that even just having them unopened on your computer is dangerous. email2's attachment system doesn't automatically download attachments once they are received (at the member's option); instead members are notified of the attachment and prompted to download it. If an attachment seems suspicious, or is a confirmed virus, users can delete it from the PEN's server without ever having it put their personal computers at risk. Self executable viruses are not able to infect the network and propagate themselves because files are stored broken into parts, resulting in an overall more secure global network. Allowing recipients to manually retrieve messages once the Delivery Slip has been reviewed substantially reduces the probability of being infected by a virus. Additionally, users are guaranteed to retrieve messages from the proper sender / organization, resulting in a ‘phishing’ reduction.