Businesses prepared to give up email
Businesses prepared to give up email
The constant bombardment of viruses, spam and other malware has prompted six out of 10 businesses survey throughout the world, including the Asia Pacific region, to consider giving up email if threats continue to increase.
According to MessageLabs, which carried out a survey with over 9000 business customers, a further 40 percent are worried about the current email security threat to their business, and only 29 percent feel optimistic about the future.
David Banes, MessageLabs' Asia Pacific technical directors said: "These results reflect serious and growing concerns about email security, to the extent that if the situation does not improve the status of email will be under threat.
"The blending of the various email attack methods has led to a more damaging and complex breed of email security threat, meaning that everyone's favourite "killer app" is also capable of mortality damaging the business."
20 percent of those questioned revealed that online fraud, such as phishing and identity theft, posed the greatest threat.
18 percent perceived the passing of confidential information into the wrong hands would pose the main threat, and 15 percent thought the biggest risk would involve industrial espionage.
Nearly half of the respondents fear that spam and junk email will more than double over the next ten years.
15 percent of those questioned believe that email will be the same application over the next decade, while two-thirds think it will merge into other messaging applications, such as wireless and instant messaging.
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