MessageLabs White Paper Sample

Threats to email security have evolved into sophisticated domestic and foreign attacks designed to capture financial, personal, or strategic business information. Threats now come in the form of deliberately malicious acts and exploitive opportunities for hackers and cyber criminals. The impact is serious, and the landscape of victims is getting broader every day. In response, no organization can afford to have its network unprotected.

In fact, about one of every 1.33 email messages is spam; one in every 126 messages contains a virus or Trojan threat; and one in seven employees will handle some form of harmful Web content.

Spam now accounts for as much as 80-90% of an organization’s total email volume. More disturbing is the fact that a growing percentage of that spam contains links to malicious websites that host malware. Following this same trend, malware is reaching out to malicious sites to execute additional malware or transmit stolen data. Such attacks fall into the vendor category of “web threats,” a category that has grown more than 1,500% over the past two years.