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Panurgy Attains Gold Certified Partner
Status In Microsoft Partner Program

As a Gold Certified partner, Panurgy has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customers' needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support giving
them a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

"We are extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program. This allows us to clearly promote our expertise and relationship with Microsoft to our customers," said Craig Moller, Vice President of Sales. "The benefits provided through our Gold Certified status will allow us to continue to enhance the offerings that we provide for our customers."

"Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands and technology capabilities. They need to trust in someone that can act as an expert adviser for their long-term strategic technology plans. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, which have certified expertise and direct training and support from Microsoft, can build a positive customer experience with our technologies," said Allison Watson, vice president of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp."Today, Microsoft recognizes Panurgy as a new Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for demonstrating its expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology."

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Filtering Techniques Block Inappropriate Content

If checking your e-mail means deleting dozens of offers for baldness cures, weight-loss products and vacation time-shares, you already know how annoying bulk e-mail advertising can be. What you may not know is that this type of e-mail, also known as spam, can actually end up costing your business money.

How It Happens

When spam floods your employees’ e-mail accounts, it sucks up costly bandwidth that should be devoted to business communication. It also makes workers less productive by forcing them to spend time sifting through and deleting dozens of junk messages. (Some statistics indicate that employees spend about 15 hours a year deleting e-mail. In a 50-employee company, that adds up to 750 hours, or 93 workdays, over the course of a year.) Worse, it may cause workers to miss or accidentally discard important messages in the process.

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Just when you think you've followed all the rules to safeguard your business assets against viruses and hackers and burglars, along comes an employee with a "better" idea. Only it's not, and it could unravel all of the smart security moves you have implemented so far.

As you know, it takes a major commitment to properly safeguard your business from external threats. If you've started that process by updating your software and virus protection and installing a firewall, you've already made a significant investment of time, effort and money.

Unfortunately, a lack of stringent administrative procedures can unwittingly sabotage that security investment, reversing the changes you've made or inadvertently introducing new risks. Users may not stay current on updates and patches, they may download unauthorized and potentially harmful software and they may not be vigilant about unauthorized access to data on their computers.

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