Spam and Viruses Up, Says Postini

• By theWHIR.com , December 02, 2004

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December 2, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Postini (postini), a provider of email security and management for enterprises, reported on Wednesday that only 12 percent of email messages it processed in November were legitimate while the remaining 88 percent were spam, viruses, directory harvest or phishing attacks. The data was based on 6.9 billion messages.

According to Postini, it prevented 92 million virus instances from entering corporate networks and fended off 19 million directory harvest attacks in November. A DHA is type of malicious attack in which a spammer attempts to hijack and steal an organization's entire email directory and use it to send out junk email attacking corporate email servers.

Andres Lochart, director of product marketing at Postini, said the growth in spam and viruses makes protection at the connection level particularly important.

"As evidenced by the increase of email attacks at the connection level this month, spammers are getting smarter about how they approach their targets," says Lochart. "It's for this reason Postini offers its users complete email boundary protection that goes well beyond simple content filtering to provide security at the connection level to reduce email intrusion threats early on. Simple content filtering alone is ineffective as a means of stopping spam and viruses."

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