While e-mail has made conducting day-to-day business easier, its prevalence has introduced an abundance of threats to the corporate network. In addition, government regulations have given companies strong incentives to ensure that corporate mail systems are stable and secure.
E-mail security products protect the e-mail infrastructure of a company by performing spam blocking, virus protection, content filtering, and messaging security. These products can be standalone for a specific function, such as spam blocking, or integrated with multiple security functions.
To gain visibility into the e-mail security market segment, In-Stat recently conducted a decision-maker survey to discover trends in e-mail security product usage and plans for future purchases.
Key findings include:
- Viruses and spam continue to be the top e-mail security concerns with decision makers.
- 66% of the decision makers plan to purchase e-mail security products within the next two years.
- More than 30% of the decision makers don't know whether the planned purchase will be software, an appliance, or a hosted service.
- By a high margin, reliability is the most critical factor in the purchasing decision.
This Information Alert is drawn from In-Stat's Enterprise Networks research.