Email Messaging and Security Trends

I just received Radicati Market Stats and Industry Commentary, published by Radicati Group. This organization tracks trends in messaging and desktop security. I found the following stats interesting:

+ Radicati says that this year 61% of email traffic to European consumers is spam and that by 2009 that figure will rise to 76%.

+ Email fraud, the group says, is 3% of spam. This includes "messages and advertisements for non-existent products/services." Sounds low to me. That would mean 97% of spam is for real products?

+ Radicati believes that email messages sent and received by corporate users will average 125/day this year, rising to 1,164/day in 2009. Ouch -- that's a lot of email to manage!

+ The firm foresees the market for corporate desktop anti-spyware growing from 5.5 million clients in 2005 to 290 million clients in 2009.

AB -- 8/17/05

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August 17, 2005 3:31 PM |