{"id":1793,"date":"2005-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/02\/28\/spam-could-cost-businesses-worldwide-50-billion\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:00","slug":"spam-could-cost-businesses-worldwide-50-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/02\/28\/spam-could-cost-businesses-worldwide-50-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam Could Cost Businesses Worldwide $50 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spam will cost the world $50 billion in lost productivity and other expenses this year, according to a new report issued by Ferris Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a third of that, or $17 billion, will be wasted by U.S. companies.  &#8220;We haven&#8217;t seen as much of a spike in costs as in spam volume because more organizations are putting in better anti-spam technology,&#8221; Richi Jenningssays.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2003, spam volume hitting U.S. companies has jumped fivefold, but costs haven&#8217;t even doubled, Jennings says.  Still, revenue for anti-spam software and hosted services will reach $1.7 billion by 2008, research firm IDC predicted last week.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, spam&#8217;s annual per-mailbox cost to businesses is $170. In Germany, it jumps to $241 based on Germany&#8217;s higher labor costs, fewer workdays, and high health-care and pension costs borne by companies. <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=54IVKF140OEXIQSNDBNCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=60403649<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4280,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}