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Matthew Gardiner, Cybersecurity Strategist
at Mimecast, said emails ranging from
opportunistic spam, targeted impersonation
attacks and unknown malware are getting
through incumbent email security systems
Mimecast recently conducted global
research with Vanson Bourne on the state of
organisations’ cybersecurity, what attacks
they’ve seen increase and their level of
confidence to thwart these evolving attacks.
The findings were based on responses
from 800 IT decision makers and c-level
executives. Not surprisingly, and consistent
with the results of the Mimecast ESRA report,
organisations are forecasting a challenging
future, with nearly 60% of respondents
having said their organisation is likely to
suffer a negative business impact because of
an email-borne attack in 2018.
Matthew Gardiner, Cybersecurity Strategist
at Mimecast, said: “Mimecast’s ESRA
is aiming to establish a standard of
transparency that raises the bar for all
security vendors helping organisations
pinpoint weaknesses in their defences.
“Emails ranging from opportunistic spam,
targeted impersonation attacks and
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unknown malware are getting through
incumbent email security systems.
“The security system of one primary
cloud email platform missed 76.6%
of the aggregate impersonation
attacks while another global security
vendor missed the 83.4% of the ‘known’
malware attachments.”
Also in line with the ESRA results, despite
efforts, email-borne attacks are on the
rise. The clear majority of Vanson Bourne
respondents have seen untargeted phishing
attacks (94%) or targeted spear-phishing
attacks (92%) with malicious links in the
past 12 months, with the volume of both
attacks increasing 56% over the last year.
Most respondents also reported seeing
email-based impersonation attacks asking
either to initiate wire transfers (87%) or for
confidential data (85%) over the last year. n
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