Spam Spikes: A Real Risk to Your Business

Spam currently accounts for around 70% of emails heading to corporate gateways. Whenever your organization receives an unsolicited email, your efficiency, productivity and profitability take a hit. Many businesses that have invested heavily in anti-spam defenses, especially in-house appliance-based or software-based systems, regularly find themselves suffering from spam. Most commonly, a sudden surge in spam appears and causes real disruption – plus a major headache for IT administrators.

Traditionally companies suffer from huge spam surges during the holiday season, as spammers try to cash in on increased consumer spending in the run-up to Christmas. MessageLabs expects this year to be no exception to the rule. But even more noticeable than the blue line are the large red “spikes” in September to October and the particularly dramatic ones between November 2006 and March 2007.

It is possible to stop almost every unsolicited email from reaching your network. Outsourcing to a managed anti-spam service, such as MessageLabs, can provide the most cost-effective way of protecting your business against all spam threats. And this will boost your bottom line by freeing up valuable computing resources and liberating your.

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