Engelhardt said that organized crime is what is driving spam today and cybercrime was now worth more to them than the drugs trade.

"The goal of an email spam or malware now is to get into your organization, establish a footprint, understand what sensitive information is available and then pull that out," Englehardt said. "The risk is pretty broad but it's all about stealing information out of an organization."

Englehardt said that most enterprises are unprepared for what has been the recent explosion of cyber-attacks and are also often not aware of the risks that lie within their own business.

"There's a lack of understanding about what information is important to an organization and what level of threats actually exist within," he said. "When we start servicing our customers we scan both in-bound and outbound emails and many are very surprised to see the number of their out-going emails that actually include viruses and malware -- there are lots of threats existing within organisations too."

"From outside there hasn't been an abatement or decrease in spam at all; there's been a continual increase, along with phishing and malware, and it's becoming more prominent on a monthly basis."