Berlin, April 7, 2010 - The spam load at German companies is on the increase. This was the verdict of a survey of more than 500 IT managers at German companies carried out during CeBIT by eleven, the leading German e-mail security specialist. 63.6 percent of the respondents stated that their spam volumes have clearly increased in the last twelve months. In contrast, only 44.2 percent of those surveyed a year ago noted such a surge in spam mail. A mere 6.7 percent of respondents reported declines in spam volumes (2009: 15.7 percent).

In battling spam, the trend is clearly moving in the direction of outsourcing. Whereas only a third of respondents (35.1 percent) in 2009 said they had outsourced their anti-spam measures through managed services or planned to do so within the next 12 months, more than half (53.3 percent) of those surveyed in 2010 are taking this approach. In choosing the right solution, two things are critical: the spam detection rate and above all the false positive rate (31 percent). Yet economy and cost-effectiveness are also playing a more important role:  23.8 percent named a reduction in maintenance effort and 23.4 percent the conservation of their own IT resources as central decision-making criteria. 

Other results of the survey:

• 46.5 percent of respondents have already lost at least one business-relevant e-mail message, for example through the incorrect operation of a spam filter (2009: 40.1 percent).

• Those surveyed see the greatest danger of spam in the decline in employee productivity (40.5), and 42.3 percent see their IT security threatened.

• 34.6 percent fear the loss of important e-mail messages as a result of spam.

eleven – e-mail security made in Germany

eleven is Germany’s leading e-mail security provider. eXpurgate is the world’s only spam filter and e-mail categorisation service that offers reliable protection against spam and phishing e-mails, recognises potentially dangerous e-mails and differentiates between individual e-mails and any kind of bulk e-mail.  What’s more, eXpurgate also offers a powerful e-mail firewall and a comprehensive range of options for protecting against viruses.

More than 30,000 businesses of all sizes use the eXpurgate service. eXpurgate checks and categorises over 1 billion e-mails every day.  Alongside ISPs and carriers such as T-Online, O2, Vodafone and freenet, eleven’s client base includes many well-known companies and public institutions such as Air Berlin, the Association of German Banks, DATEV, the Free University of Berlin, Landesbank Berlin, Mazda, RTL, ThyssenKrupp and Tobit Software. Further information can be found at www.eleven.de.

Contact

eleven GmbH
Sascha Krieger
Hardenbergplatz 2
10623 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)30 / 52 00 56-0
E-Mail: presse@eleven.de
http://www.eleven.de

consense communications gmbh
Eva Buschmann
Analena Gmelch
Nymphenburger Straße 86
80636 München
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)89 / 23 00 26-50
http://www.consense-communications.de