Is junk mail the same as spam

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So it is essential that your ISP has tools in place to keep spam emails in check. This thing we call spam, unsolicited and unwanted junk email, accounts for more than a quarter of all email traffic. Spam Fact: 91% of cybercrimes start with an email. We will also discuss the top reasons that emails are flagged as spam and the steps you and your IT team can do to increase the likelihood of important emails showing up in your primary inbox.īut knowledge is power, and we want to show you what other organizations are doing to better protect themselves from cyber attacks via email, so you can take similar steps to securing your company. In this insight, we’ll explain how and why an email client or ISP (i.e., Outlook) filters emails, and how it keeps our businesses secure.

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It can be embarrassing when you realize you never responded to a colleague, and it is crushing to miss a valuable business opportunity because you actually didn’t see the memo. Not only is it frustrating to miss these emails, but it can also affect your business’s bottom line. Likely, you found this message later in a junk folder, in quarantine, or worse, you never saw the message at all. Perhaps it was an RFP you were waiting on, an invoice you’d been looking for, or simply a hello from an industry colleague. At some point in your career you’ve missed an email you should have received.