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The inability to identify potential email threats has also exposed a weakness in corporate email security strategy. Quite simply, by switching the focus of malware detection from email scanning to HTTP, malware authors know they are attacking the weakest link in corporate security.

Symantec Hosted Services takes the view that both SMTP and HTTP scanning at the Internet level is now essential in order to ensure reliable security to internal networks. Indeed the two approaches are rapidly converging to create a comprehensive defense to protect customers’ networks from viruses, malware and other unwanted content.