Beware: If Your Email Usage is on The Rise, so is Your Cybersecurity Risk! Read on to Discover More
Publish Date
09/07/2024
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Email remains the prime gateway for cyberattacks and the bad guys are getting better at breaking through. That’s the conclusion of Mimecast, the leading email gateway defender.
Mimecast latest State of Email Security report should be a wake-up call for all businesses out there.
The report says the cybersecurity landscape is becoming more vulnerable as email usage is rising in 8 out of 10 companies with 59% reporting cyberattacks are increasingly sophisticated.
The report also shows:
- 2/3rds of companies last year were harmed by a ransomware attack.
- 97% were targeted by email-based phishing attacks.
- 8/10 believe they are at risk from inadvertent internal data leaks.
- 72% expect to be hit by a collaboration-tool-based attack.
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