Get the message: IM is not secure

A new report by the Aberdeen Group admittedly sponsored by a number of security vendors, has revealed that 91% of companies see virus and malware as either medium or high on the threat rating list, and 86% put spam at the same level, but this drops to just 72% when the external interception of confidential data is in the risk frame. Well, I say ‘just’ but 72% is a fairly big number in the scheme of things, unlike 25% which is the number of those companies that have actually done anything to implement a messaging encryption solution in order to address the threat.