Assurance Data

Although traditional techniques of preventing email-borne virus attacks at the gateway is still necessary, today, spam and data leakage may be a greater risk to your organization. With spam accounting for an alarming and increasing percentage of all emails, the level of risk is higher than ever with the evolution of spam as a serious threat - not just as a productivity drain. This dramatic spam evolution has progressed from simple plain text emails to today's sophisticated and malicious Web-based and social engineering tactics for criminal and malevolent purposes. Spam often contains embedded Web components and links to pull unsuspecting recipients to Web-based phishing web sites, crimeware sites, or infected Web pages making email now the invitation to attacks and infections, with Web 2.0 as the attack and infection point. In addition to email threats, the modern office employee is able to send messages containing confidential, sensitive, illegal, inappropriate and other privacy and security risks outside of your organization. This data leakage problem has grown to epidemic proportions. Email security now is a bi-directional vulnerability that must be viewed as inbound protection from spam and threats with outbound data loss prevention.