Findings from a recent Commtouch Q2 Internet Threat Trend Report caught my attention and further motivated me to bring a bit of attention to the threat of email spam. The report focuses on spam and other malicious threats from email and the internet and revealed that spam accounted for 82% of all email traffic throughout the quarter, peaking at 92% near the end of the quarter, and the number of spam attacks and the complexity of spam only continue to increase. It’s important for IT decision makers to further educate themselves of the dangers of not protecting their companies against the threat of spam. Spam is not only annoying; it can have a serious impact on both the company and its customers. To effectively combat this problem, organizations should assess their spam fighting best practices on an ongoing basis which in the end will also decrease liability risks and reduce costs.
The report also noted that 179 billion spam/phishing emails are sent daily. Without the proper preventions in place this could lead to one large and potentially damaging inbox.
It’s no secret Sendmail offers a variety of solutions to combat spam with supporting applications on several different levels throughout the inbound mail process. For example, Sendmail Sentrion Message Processors have multiple integrated anti-spam applications and are fully integrated with all Sentrion Message Processors. For more information on our other applications be sure to visit our Sentrion App Store.
Industry experts say that Spam will always be an issue and may never be a thing of the past. Thankfully there are ways to combat against it and protect enterprises from annoying attacks.
Commtouch Q2 2010 Trend Report Highlights
- 179 billion spam/phishing emails are sent daily
- Spam accounted for 82% of all email traffic throughout the quarter, peaking at 92% near the end of June.
- Mal/Bredo malware was once again distributed with the most variants – totaling 1811 for the quarter (1000 more than in Q1). The next most variants were of Mal/ZipMal which was emailed in 1021 different varieties (600 more than Q1).