White Papers for Basel II Capital Accord (Basel II)

Businesses Beware: The New Battlefront on Web and Email Attacks

MessageLabs

Gone are the days when viruses simply corrupted your network, costing your organization time and money to clean up the damage. Today’s threats consist of ‘under the radar’ approaches in the form of multi-vector attacks, which operate across email and the internet and are designed to get past traditional security tools. Email and web-based attacks like phishing and spyware are costing businesses loss in productivity and system downtime, financial losses, as well as and brand damage.

This white paper examines the nature of the new threats, what they’re designed to achieve, and their true costs to business. It examines the alternatives available to combat them: appliances, software and Managed Services. It assesses their strengths and weaknesses, and their relative total cost of ownership. The need for creating certainty in all our exchange of electronic information is clear, whether this is across email, the internet, VoIP or instant messaging. Achieving it, without hampering the speed and continuity of business over the internet, requires some doing. Businesses today have a clear need for real time internet-level protection from known and unknown email and web-based threats.

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