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Green, Regs and Spam: Cost, Policy and Junk Mail

MessageLabs

Electronic junk mail. Spam. It’s become a familiar feature of the email landscape. So it’s easy to forget the damage it does to a small business. It’s not simply a nuisance. The stark reality is that defending against and dealing with spam represents an unwelcome cost to your organization. Spam erodes business efficiency. It pushes down productivity. It eats away at profit.
Think of the time your staff spends, in the course of a year, identifying and deleting unsolicited emails. Think how those messages weigh down and clog up your network. Consider the endless expense and effort involved in protecting your network’s integrity against the relentless tide of garbage.
But that’s not all. The landscape is changing. Threats are converging. Spam is no longer just an advertising medium. As scammers grow ever more sophisticated, spam is increasingly being used as a delivery mechanism for malicious software, or malware, whose ultimate aim is to disrupt business communications or gain access to confidential commercial information.
This MessageLabs White Paper summarizes the threat spam poses to small business right now. It highlights disturbing trends you should be aware of – and need to take seriously. It also underlines the advantages of opting for an outsourced solution to your messaging security needs – advantages that translate directly into bottom-line benefits for your business.

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