Breaking News in Email Security:
ActivatorMail Named in Ferris Research Report:
"Spam will cost U.S. businesses over $10 billion in 2003 according to the latest research." (We are pleased that ActivatorMail was named in the Ferris Research Report and an available solution to spam and virus.)
InfoWeek: Spam Costs Keep Rising For Business
"Despite new laws and technologies, spam increasingly takes a toll on business coffers, costing employers $1,934 a year for each worker through loss of productivity, according to a study released Tuesday by Nucleus Research. "
Radicati: Corporate Anti-Spam Deployment, 2004
"The study offers data demonstrating that prior to deploying an anti-spam filter, a 10,000-user organization was losing an average of $30 million a year in productivity losses alone. Recent study shows that a 10,000-user organization deploying an anti-spam solution can reduce productivity losses by $25.24 million a year."
IDC: Anti-spam Protection Pays Its Way
"Investing in anti-spam solutions yields a positive return on investment (ROI) and rapid payback... Organizations with 5,000 e-mail users but sans a spam defense, said Levitt's study, waste 10 minutes per end user per day on spam, and 43 minutes per day per IT staff member. The ensuing drain claims nearly $4.2 million in lost productivity per year."
IDC Special Study: Volume of SPAM Doubled in Past Two Years
"Investing in anti-spam solutions yields a positive return on investment (ROI) and rapid payback based upon the research conducted by IDC on the cost of spam and the value of anti-spam solutions. Anti-spam solutions have helped organizations save millions of dollars in lost email user and IT staff productivity."
mi2g London Intelligence Unit: Computer virus damage shatters records :
"The first quarter of 2004 was the most economically damaging quarter ever for digital risk... caused between $3.4-billion and $4.1-billion (U.S.) in damage... The NetSky worm family bested the worm Bagle family by accounting for more than 70.5 per cent of all confirmed virus occurrences.
The volume of spam sent out the first quarter of 2004 exceeded 1.6 trillion unsolicited messages, overtaking the 1.5 trillion sent throughout 2003. The company says its estimates the economic damage from spam to lie between $58-billion and $71-billion worldwide for Q1 2004.
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Radicati Projects True Cost of Spam:
"This year the cost of receiving, storing, and handling spam will cost the average corporation $49 per mailbox in 2003, for a total of $20.5 billion worldwide. And the portion of email that is spam is expected to double by 2007."
Researcher: Employers could be sued for porn spam : "Employers have been held liable for failing to rid a workplace of defamatory or sexually explicit e-mails that circulate among or originate from its own employees. ...spam costs companies $356 per employee per year."
CNet News Reports on Costs of Viruses:
"More companies suffered extensive virus infections in 2003 than in the previous year and spent on average almost $100,000 to clean up each attack, according to new research."
Amy Joyce: Spam Eats Up Time at the office:
"...27 percent of Fortune 500 companies have defended themselves against claims of sexual harassment stemming from inappropriate e-mail or Internet use, according to the ePolicy Institute... Chevron had to pay female employees $2.2 million to settle a sexual-harass-ment lawsuit stemming from inappropriate e-mail sent by male employees."
"In 2003, 22 percent of employers reported they had terminated an employee for violating e-mail rules, according to a 2003 e-mail survey from American Management Association, the ePolicy Institute.."
InfoWeek - Almost Half Of Spam Bugged
"Millions of users are unaware that spammers have the ability to track when they view and open their e-mail", said Scott Chasin, the chief technology officer of MX Logic,"
Washington Post - Spam is Sill Flowing Into Mailboxes
"Computer users hoping that a new federal law would help cut the spam flowing to their in-boxes so far have been disappointed."
Computer World - Winning Ways With Spam
"Last year, spam cost businesses an average of $874 per employee in lost productivity, according to Nucleus Research Inc. in Wellesley, Mass. "
Network World - Anti-spam appliances are not better than software
"Spam already costs U.S. companies more than $20 billion per year. If your company's anti-spam product is underpowered and ineffective, you will contribute to this figure either through lost productivity or increased vulnerability. To obtain the level of performance necessary to protect your company, strong software must be the key component of your anti-spam solution, regardless of your hardware choices."
IDC Worldwide Email Usage Forecast, 2003-2007
"By 2005, some 50 percent of business email accounts will be hosted by service providers. The reason is simple: Hosting lets someone else worry about spam, viruses, legal compliance, storage, and security patches while you focus on your company's business."
False Positives: Spam's Casualty of War Costing Billions
"Industry analysts say money is being lost, customers are being lost and key opportunities are being missed because our best-laid spam efforts are mistakenly throwing the baby out with the bath water. Blocked legitimate email, or false positives, is costing U.S. businesses roughly $3.5 billion this year alone, according to a new study from San Francisco-based Ferris Research Inc."
18.7% of Legitimate E-mails Not Getting Through: Study
"ISPs failed to deliver 18.7% of opted-in e-mails sent to their subscribers between July 1 and December 31 2003, according to a study by e-mail performance management company Return Path, Inc., New York. The failed deliveries mark a 1.7% increase over January through June 2003 and a 3.7% increase over the same period in 2002.
NetZero topped the list with the highest percentage of non-delivery at 37.7% of permission-based e-mail, followed by SBC Global/Yahoo at 26.7% and Mac with 26.2%. Earthlink was reported to have the highest success rate, with only 7% of legitimate e-mails blocked, Return Path said.
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