On December 28, 2009, 1.766.434.209 emails were reported to Barracuda Central. 92,85% of these messages were indicated to be spam. This percentage amounts to 1.640.188.536 items! On one day!
As Barracuda Central receives statistics from all Barracuda Spam Firewalls worldwide, these numbers may be considered a reliable 'average'. Clearly, this is an vast quantity of emails. Should your users have to manually delete these emails, a lot of time would be wasted, much to everyones frustration and irritation. In addition to this, many times spam-emails are a security hazard since they carry viruses, phishing threats and malware.
To keep spam far from you email server, it is advisable to implement antispam gateways. These systems recognize and terminate spam before it reaches your email server. Given the enormous amounts of spam going around, an antispam gateway will prove a huge benefit to your server performance.
Qi ict implements antispam and antivirus systems by Barracuda Networks, Trend Micro and Blue Coat.