Recognizing e-mail as the central tool in today's contemporary business model
is effortless - any breakdown in this mission-critical instrument and
companies come to a virtual halt. Staff collaboration is limited, customer
and vendor relationships are potentially compromised, and IT resources must
be re-allocated to administer first aid, leaving other work sidetracked. The
necessity of restoring the system becomes paramount, the monetary toll is
secondary, and the debt to be paid is always exacted.
In addition, e-mail is one of the first entry points into an organization and
perhaps the single most targeted vector for enterprise security attacks. A
recent Google-led study estimates that 94 percent of all e-mail is now spam,
with threats that go far beyond the annoyance of unwanted e-mail to include
malicious components such as phishing attacks, worms, Trojans, bots, ... (more)