Enterprise Security

Enterprises are currently facing a multiplicity of IT security threats. Security experts predict that email will be under unprecedented attack over the next 12 months, and stopping spam and keeping email productive will be a front-burner issue for IT managers.

Web threats are tipped take over from email-borne attacks, according to industry analyst IDC, which estimates that 30 per cent of companies with 500 employees and more have been infected with malware through web surfing. This compares to 20 to 25 per cent of similar companies infected through email.

Spam will continue to make up an ever larger proportion of email traffic until ISPs are forced by subscribers or government regulations to do more 'cloud level' filtering.

Image-based spam, used to evade conventional desktop filters, is becoming the mass-market spammers' weapon of choice this year. Instant messaging and VoIP are also tipped to become mainstream targets in 2007.

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