With spam levels breaking records every day, the quintessential business tool –  email – has simultaneously become a major liability. With inboxes overrun with more and more unwanted email that threatens business productivity, regulatory compliance, and network security, organizations are having to look at what is being mailed in, out and around their network, at the gateway, at the mail server and at the endpoint.

This paper focuses on the threat posed by unwanted emails that make it through to the inbox, explains the impact these threats have on organizations, and demonstrates what needs to be done in response to make email safe and productive.