| With the rapid growth in the volume of spam that is | | | | anti-malware package. These packages not only |
| sent worldwide, spam filtering has become increasingly | | | | remove viruses and spyware from your system, but |
| more important each year. Nucleus Research | | | | they can stop threats before they ever reach your |
| estimates that the average employee receives about | | | | network by blocking spam at the connection |
| 7,500 pieces of spam every year. Not only does this | | | | level-saving valuable bandwidth. Advanced spam |
| take time away from normal work duties, but these | | | | filtering software can filter out the large majority of |
| pieces of spam are often malicious attempts by an | | | | dangerous emails before they ever reach your inbox. |
| Internet criminal to gain access to your company's | | | | A very important function of a spam filter is to scan |
| private information or otherwise compromise your | | | | incoming and outgoing email for harmful viruses and |
| security. One of the best ways to ensure email | | | | quarantine any suspicious messages. Without this |
| security is to eliminate spam from ever reaching your | | | | feature, viruses can spread and wreak havoc on your |
| network through the use of spam filtering software. | | | | system, deleting files, shutting down operating systems, |
| The 2007 FTC Spam Summit concluded that spam is | | | | and opening up your environment to cybercriminals |
| the primary means cyber criminals use to conduct their | | | | who will take advantage of any private information |
| crimes. These criminals prey on companies that do not | | | | they find. The spam filter should be set to update and |
| have adequate spam filtering software. They usually | | | | run automatically, with no action needed by the |
| have one of two goals: they either want to obtain | | | | employee. |
| private information (known as phishing scams) or they | | | | There is no doubt that spam must be stopped in order |
| intend to create a gateway to hack into your | | | | to maintain email security. However, rather than |
| computer system and compromise your website and | | | | wasting expensive man-hours on deleting spam, the |
| email security. Sophos reports that every day 6,000 | | | | right spam filtering solution will handle this responsibility |
| websites are found to have been compromised, | | | | for your employees there by dramatically increasing |
| unbeknownst to their owners. | | | | productivity. |
| Email security can be easy to achieve with the right | | | | |