Reseller AN4 Group has helped stockbroker Simple Investments tackle its spam epidemic after successfully installing a hosted email platform.

Surrey-based Simple Investments manages share portfolios and provides stock market advice for institutions and private clients. Operations manager Barry Fudge claimed the volume of spam it was receiving had been disrupting his company's work.

He said: “We were getting inundated with spam emails and it was getting worse and worse: everyone’s mailbox was getting filled with junk. But we still had to go through it all in case we missed an important email from one of our clients, which would have been disastrous.”

AN4 suggested the company invested in Proofpoint's On Demand Email Security anti-spam product, and sales director Kristian Connor said: “Proofpoint on Demand offers effective protection against both inbound and outbound email-borne threats, without requiring the installation of on-premise hardware or software.

"In addition, AN4 was able to offer the company flexible customisation of its email security preferences, policies, enabled modules, end-user features, alerts and reporting."

Fudge added: "The service has been very successful. It has reduced the amount of spam to a very manageable amount. It has done exactly what it was supposed to do!”