BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - August 7, 2007) - Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (
NYSE:
HHS),
announced the results of its benchmark study focused on the security issues
posed by email. The report, "The Ins and Outs of Email Vulnerability,"
explores the costs and losses associated with both incoming mail exploits
such as viruses, hoaxes, phishing attacks, and spyware, as well as the
problems associated with accidental data lost through email, data leakage
through email and email sent from infected machines, including zombies. The
strategies, capabilities and technology enablers that Best-in-Class
companies use form the core recommendations for the report.
"The most compelling finding is that companies are getting profoundly
different results depending on their email security strategies," says
Research Director, Carol Baroudi, IT Security Practice, Aberdeen. Despite
the fact that the amount of email has dramatically increased over the last
year, and the fact that email attacks are much more sophisticated, the
Best-in-Class companies were able to decrease the loss of productivity
attributable to email, decrease the cost associated with the remediation of
email attacks, decrease the number of malware infections (viruses, worms,
Trojans, spyware, key loggers, etc.) attributable to email and the number
of data loss incidents attributable to email. "The bad news," Baroudi
continued, "is that most companies are not so fortunate." Many are losing
even more productivity and suffering an increase in data loss and
infections attributable to email than they did a year ago.
New threats combine email attacks with hostile web sites that download
malicious software, which may in turn disseminate new email attacks from
the infected machines. Best-in-Class companies are integrating their email
and web security, using encryption to protect email in transit, and
deploying data loss prevention software to prevent sensitive data leaking
through email. They monitor, track, report email threats and losses and in
general have greater visibility across the organization's resources,
watching threats on desktops, laptops, servers and networks.
This report is made available due in part by the following underwriters:
SurfControl, MXlogic, Proofpoint, Vericept, Postini. To obtain a
complimentary copy of the report, visit:
http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=4124
About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company
Aberdeen is a leading provider of fact-based research and market
intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more
than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely
positioned to educate users to action: driving market awareness, creating
demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment
analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets,
corporations turn to Aberdeen™ for insights that drive decisions.
As a Harte-Hanks Company, Aberdeen plays a key role of putting content in
context for the global direct and targeted marketing company. Aberdeen's
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Harte-Hanks (Information - Opportunity - Insight - Engagement -
Interaction) extends the client value and accentuates the strategic role
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Contact Information: Media Contact:
Carol Baroudi
Aberdeen Harte-Hanks
(617) 854-5287
carol.baroudi@aberdeen.com