Spam an Increasing Menace for American Businesses; GFI

According to GFI Software, which conducted a poll of American businesses, nearly 50% enterprises sustained data-hacks caused with junk e-mails, whilst the majority reported about their anti-spam filters working effective, only marginally. EWeek.com published this dated March 3, 2012.

Actually according to the poll, American organizations are continuing to fight back spam. Still disturbing is about the organizations (40%) that encountered security breaches owing to malevolent files/web-links obtained from spam mails.

Moreover, the research finds 46% of enterprises believing that the anti-spam defense layers within their anti-viruses alone can stop unsolicited e-mails; therefore 1/5th of these enterprises utilize all-time running security software; 22.5% utilize a gateway application against spam; while merely 7.5% have cloud-based security software. Most SMEs (70%) report that their anti-spam solutions are marginally to nil efficient.

Further, 74.5% state that their mailboxes get plentiful junk. 86% of respondents stated that there had either been a rise (61%) in junk e-mails hitting their organizations or they continued as before (25%), during 2011. However, the greatest worry, as per 23% of respondents, was that the junk e-mails could contain malevolent files/web-links, which compromised the PCs in their networks. The next greatest worry was about phishing assaults that spam mails launched. Notably, 14% of organizations didn't make their employees aware of the dangers associated with viewing spam mails.

Incidentally, the issue of spam wasn't getting eradicated, with malevolent files/web-links getting delivered, making the problem even perilous unlike ever-before, stated General Manager Phil Bousfield of the Infrastructure Business Unit of GFI Software. According to him, businesses required reacting via making the most of every existing spam-combating methodology obtainable, while for preventing spam; the most certain method was deploying a defense mechanism, which was multi-layered, as also included on-premise along with cloud-based software of spam-filtering. EChannelLine published this on March 4, 2012.

Significantly, security researchers say that the problem of spam has been around since years because online-criminals have been utilizing spam messages as an option for infiltrating corporate-networks. Nevertheless, according to a few researchers, spam levels have declined since some years now, when a few online-criminals have been going for personalized assaults against particular corporate-networks, instead.

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