Evolving Email, Web & IM Threats and How to Manage Them

Email, web and instant messaging (IM) lie at the heart of today’s business environment. But it’s no commercial secret that viruses, spam, spyware and so on can hit small businesses hard – whatever sector they’re in. And it’s not just other companies that are a target. It’s you. It’s now.

The threats are very real – and so is their potential impact. When a virus brings your network down, for instance, you pick up the tab in terms of lost time and damage to business efficiency. You may well be faced with financial, legal and brand equity implications, yet dealing with the problem eats up resources – and your IT budget in particular. Moreover, your intellectual property is at risk if you fall victim to the increasingly targeted, converging suite of commercially motivated threats now confronting small businesses around the world.

This Symantec.cloud White Paper gives you an overview of the current “threat landscape” and the dangers facing your organization. But it also highlights what you can do to meet the threat head-on, simply, effectively and affordably, enabling you to safeguard performance, improve efficiency and keep costs under control. You’re a target – but you can fight back!

The information presented in this document is based on our hands-on experience of providing cost-effective messaging security for over 55,000 clients worldwide, with around 1.5 billion emails processed each week on their behalf.