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Enter Your Company Name:
Enter Number of Users: This is equal to the number of mailboxes. Hosted Email Security requires a minimum of 25 users.
Enter Number of Email Servers: On-premise security requires one server or appliance per gateway. We have factored in $8,000 per server per gateway, which includes the hardware and operating system.	* =
Enter Number of Redundant Servers: This includes email security servers or appliances used for redundancy, failover, or load-balancing. We have factored in $8,000 per server per gateway, which includes the hardware and operating system.	* =
Additional Costs	On-Premise Costs	Hosted Security Costs
Antispam and Antivirus Software: This is the price technology used for email security. We have factored in typical on-premise software security costs for your number of users for one year.
Database: If your business has more than 250 users, you probably need a fully licensed database server. We have factored in the license cost to SQL Server Enterprise Edition, which excludes the cost of the hardware.
Training: The more complex a solution, the more training is required. With most on-network solutions, the time required to train your staff and ensure proper network integration is lengthy and expensive.
Technical Support: On-Premise Costs: .20% of the on-premise antispam and antivirus software costs Hosted Security Costs: 0 For software and appliances, the cost for technical support is often above the cost for the actual solution. For Hosted Security, this cost is included. Here, we’ve valued technical support to be 20% the cost of the subscription.
Implementation Services: On-Premise Costs: $8,000 Hosted Security Costs: 0 Many businesses leverage Professional Services to help integrate the solution into the network (valued here as an $8,000 cost). Since Hosted Security resides outside the network, implementation services only apply to on-premise solutions.
Admin Time: Time equals money, and the more time administrators spend managing email security, the less they can spend working on more productive projects. We've factored in two hours a week at $40/hour for one year.
Bandwidth: ISPs charge your business based on the amount of bandwidth at your gateway. Nearly 95% of all email is spam. We have entered a default ISP cost of $5,000 per year for bandwidth consisting of junk email.
Electricity: The more servers and appliances you maintain on-site, the greater your electricity bill. We've factored in $5,000 in electricity costs for one year to support a redundant and load balanced environment.
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Total Annual Cost by Solution

With Websense Hosted Email Security, this calculator estimates that you will save $. The main cause for this is that hosted email security will alleviate most of the hidden and related costs associated with on-premise email security. Analyzing your costs The complex costs of hardware According to our results, you currently spend or are about to spend $ on-network hardware. While this cost may seem manageable at first, it changes quickly and exponentially as you gain new employees, evolve your network, and mature your organization through acquisition or organic growth-and capacity budgets do not always grow in sync with actual growth. Even with several servers or appliances managing security, load balancing, and failover, there is no certainty that security is running at optimal levels, or that if your network goes down your email will be protected. With on-premise technology, the capital cost is great and the benefit is merely adequate. Websense Hosted Security eliminates the need for any on-premise hardware, and provides guaranteed security through industry-leading Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Redundancy, failover, load balancing, spooling, and disaster recovery are built into the service - providing benefits not possible with on-network software or appliance technology. The ongoing costs of administration According to our results, you currently spend or are prepared to spend $ on getting your administrative staff trained to manage an email security solution. At Websense, we recognize that it's important for administrators to have control over email security policy, quarantines, reporting, and for end users to manage their own spam. With Hosted Email Security, that is all the training that is necessary. Deployment, management of the server, and database maintenance, are all built into the service. Training is therefore optional and easy to grasp, and once policy is established, management of the Hosted Email Security portal is virtually hands-free, and therefore the cost is next to zero. The layered costs of allowing threats into your network According to Gartner in the 2007 report, Benchmarking Anti-Spam Effectiveness, 90%-95% of all email is spam, and 6% of all email contains a virus. With standard percentages like this, it is incredible that anyone brings email into their network in order to interrogate it. Most ISPs charge based on the amount of bandwidth reaching your gateway, and bringing in a virus into your gateway in order to cleanse it hardly seems like best security practices. Additionally, many businesses adhere to policy mandating that all email within the network is stored. Regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley stipulate that messages must stored as long as seven years. Only Hosted Email Security can ensure that email reaching your network is already spam and virus free, improving the cost of archiving nearly one hundred percent. Achieving an Acceptable Level of Risk With today's evolving threat landscape, a security solution is essential, and businesses have to stay smart about where they are investing their IT resources and budget. Capacity planning for increased mail and web traffic is unpredictable and costly if not done right. Distributed environments increase the challenges a hundredfold. With Websense Hosted Security, the highest level of protection is guaranteed and backed by Service-Level Agreements, which contractually obligate Websense to provide guaranteed levels of spam protection, malware protection, uptime, etc. Organizations don't have to continually test or tune their solution to make sure it remains effective against the latest threats. By leveraging the unique zero-hour technology within Websense Hosted Security, customers are protected from the very newest threats as soon as a threat pattern emerges - often hours or days sooner than with traditional AV software. Security is managed centrally and protects all users - including those across multiple gateways and geographies. Websense Hosted Security has predictable costs without the risk of sudden, unplanned purchases due to an increase in capacity or system failure. Summary Websense Hosted Security provides protection at the internet level, eliminating threats before they reach your network and providing centralized security in distributed environments. This reduces your administrative burden and optimizes network operating and capacity planning costs. Guaranteed by industry-leading SLAs, Websense Hosted Security reduces business costs, eliminates complexity and uncertainty, and provides the highest possible degree of protection