Google: Spam is the top problem

Having recently acquired email security firm Postini a little while ago, Google quietly jumped into the fight against criminals and network problems. And like all other security companies, Google has to research to alert users: how dangerous the online world has become.

The "Google 2008 Annual Information Security" report predicts that virus attacks - mixed - mixed - spam will continue to increase this year. Their number one goal is to steal user identity.

The most popular hackers are still taking advantage of big, hot events, which have attracted attention like the upcoming 2008 Olympics and Hollywood scandals.

" Viruses will be aimed at very specific businesses, because intellectual property is a very valuable commodity on" black market ", Google said. " Hackers will impersonate legitimate, reputable business organizations such as internal revenue services, or even the Exchange Commission and US securities ."

Another trend that is worth noting is that the number of identity theft attacks originating from "homemade content" websites will become more and more numerous.

SaaS to the throne?

The escalation of the number and the dangerous nature of this problem may force many organizations / businesses to delete the "live" link book inside their email client.

As predicted by Google, in 2008, businesses will apply encryption technology and storage more widely.

But it makes people "shocked" especially that Google predicts security business will be thriving. " Depository security solutions (SaaS) will emerge because they both help businesses save costs and reduce security workloads ."

It is a coincidence that Postini is also selling SaaS solutions for $ 5,000-17,000 a year. Meanwhile, according to Google's calculations, the company's traditionally used security software and servers are up to $ 20,000-69,000 per year.

But even if Google has its own motive for predicting it, it's not necessarily wrong. Even Gartner, a well-known research firm, said that " SaaS is an important and meaningful solution as traditional security ".

In at least a few years, spam continues to be the problem that makes businesses, organizations crazy. And the message that Google wants to send is: the administrators should teach users how to protect themselves online, if they don't want to be " punished " by their boss.