A survey carried out by Kroll Ontrack, the data analysis division of international security group Kroll Associates, has found that the rising level of spam arriving onto networks is the primary concern of a majority of 86 IT executives interviewed.
The rising levels of mails arriving into mailboxes has implications other than simply soaking up time as recipients weed out the good from the bad. Mail servers straining under the weight of larger mail volumes, and those companies opting to archive are finding it increasingly difficult to know where to draw the line in terms of what is kept and what is dumped.
At the moment the average corporate email user currently receives over 150 messages per day - a figure expected to rise to over 230 within three years.
Kroll is advising that greater attention be paid by organisations to their strategies for managing both email mailboxes, as well as the archiving of this content. A simple approach of backing up everything, often done to avoid any potential compliance issues, is no longer an affordable option given the expected continued increase in email volume.
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