Excedent Technologies, a provider of managed email hosting with integrated security threat prevention, today issued a list of characteristics that businesses and service providers should look for when outsourcing their email hosting to a third party provider.

There are thousands of companies that promote email-hosting services as part of a large product portfolio. However, because email is such a mission critical application and features and security threats evolve so quickly, we highly recommend looking for a provider that dedicates their business to building and managing secure and reliable email hosting services rather than providing it as one of many product or service offerings.