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Story: Anti-spam firms hit back at Gartner claims

This was a bit of a misquote and I would appreciate a correction. What I said, or what I meant to say, was that the level of spam making it through was declining to the point where we could work again. It suggests that the spam products and services are working. I know that the amount of spam (much of it being caught) is increasing -- but less is making it through. Clear?

There was also a misquote in the orignal story about the cost of not catching software vulnerabilities at the right stage of application development. I said if you catch it later, rather than sooner, the costs would be 5 times more, not 5% more to fix the problem, than if it was caught earlier.

Thanks for your coverage.

Victor S Wheatman
Managing Vice President
Security and Privacy
Gartner, Inc.

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