 What is a spam?
CNIL defines spam as a mass and sometimes repeated mailing of unwanted e-mails to persons the sender never had prior contact with and whose e-mail address was captured irregularly.
Spam is a real scourge not only for telecom industry, but also for users of electronic messaging. According to latest studies, more than 200 billion spam per day are sent worldwide. A study lead by Forrester Research shows that spam, phishing and other malwares represent more than 90 % of worldwide e-mail circulation.  The spam "green"
Spams have a significant impact on the environment. Studies on this subject revealed that their annual CO2 emissions are equal to more than 3 million cars i.e. more than 17 million tons!
 Spam market
IT security market is estimated to worth $16.5 billion in 2010 according to Gartner.
Spam is an international market. The main source regions of spam are, in order, listed as follows:
: - USA
- Brazil - Russia - India - Vietnam ... France is ranked 7th. Attacks are more and more targeted and localized. To demonstrate, the latest phishing attacks affected CAF (family allowances funds), tax office beneficiaries as well as the customers of a famous telecom operator. Within 5 years, spam filtering moved from a practical office tool to a major policy of investment for IT departments, business productivity being such affected by it. It has become a strategic line of development for the main actors of IT security justifying the noticed market consolidation in recent years. |
