Due
to companies’ perceptions of risk and their effects, some of these
requirements have not been met. In a study involving the 24
Chief Financial Officers Act agencies, 14 of the 24 agencies
reported that spam took up network bandwidth and disk storages
space which resulted in losses for the company. Only one of these
agencies identified the possible risk of spam delivering phishing,
spyware, and other major network threats to employees. This lack
of knowledge could be very detrimental to a company, especially
to one that doesn’t even understand the potential risks their
networks face. In a similar study, only 5 of the 24 agencies