EDITOR’S QUESTION
WHAT CAN
ORGANISATIONS DO
TO ENSURE THEY
HAVE ROBUST EMAIL
SECURITY SYSTEMS
IN PLACE?
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imecast, a leading email and data
security company, has announced
the availability of its latest
quarterly Email Security Risk Assessment
(ESRA), an aggregated report of tests that
measure the efficacy of widely used email
security systems.
The report shows the need for the entire
industry to continue to work toward
a higher standard of email security.
Many organisations think their current
email security systems are up to the
task of protecting them from phishing.
Unfortunately, many of them fall short and
do not keep their organisations safe.
The latest quarterly ESRA report shows
that many email attacks ranging from
opportunistic spam to highly targeted
impersonation attacks are getting through
incumbent email security systems both in
large number and variety.
The report found 26,305,457 spam emails,
27,156 malware attachments, 55,190
impersonation attacks and 466,905
malicious URLS, were all missed by these
incumbent providers and delivered to users’
inboxes, an overall false negative rate of
11% of inspected emails.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Impersonation and phishing attacks are
becoming a growing problem. According to
the recently launched State of Email Security
2019 report, 85% of the 1,025 global
respondents experienced an impersonation
attack in 2018, with 73% of those victims
having experienced a direct business impact
– like financial, data or customer loss.
Not only that, but 94% of the respondents
said they experienced a phishing attack,
with 55% noting an increase in this type
of attack year over year. This reaffirms the
need for the industry to continue to provide
better efficacy in their email protection
to help organisations strengthen their
cyber resilience to keep their data and
communications safer.
Joshua Douglas, Vice President of threat
intelligence at Mimecast, said: “Today’s
threat landscape continues to evolve as
cybercriminals adapt their attack methods,
particularly email-borne attacks, to evade the
detection of traditional security solutions. This
is becoming a huge problem for companies
regardless of size – across the globe. The
ESRA results offer deep insights so our
customers can better understand the types
of attacks threatening their business.
“Through better email security, paired with
improved security awareness, Mimecast can
help customers build a comprehensive cyber-
resilience strategy that prepares them to
take on and defend against both known and
unknown cyberthreats.”
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