IT contractors with experience in preventing data security breaches could soon experience a big demand for their services.
GFI Software surveyed 200 British SMEs and found that 40% of them have experienced data breaches.
More and more companies are going online and many of them get caught out by booby-trapped spam emails and maliciously attached files. 86% of IT decision makers said they are still receiving at least the same amount of junk mail as they did last year, if not more. 46% have tried to curb the problem using antivirus spam filters and a further 22.5% use anti-spam gateway products. 20% of respondents said they have special software dedicated to preventing spam, whilst 7.5% said they used cloud-based protection.
None of us like to see our inboxes crammed full of spam emails and IT contractors who specialise in blocking these malicious emails should be able to command some lucrative contracts.
Phil Bousfield, the general manager of the infrastructure business unit at GFI, said the problem simply isn’t going away. IT administrators are under intense pressure to find the best and most cost-effective way to deal with email security. As they struggle to get the problem under control in-house, many companies may turn to outsourcing this particular function and let IT specialist contractors devise solutions to combat spam and other data breaches.
Indications are that this is a problem that is going to remain with us for some time to come. It’s probably impossible to stamp the practice out completely, but any software that can rid us of the majority of spam emails will be very welcome.
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