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Mimecast report finds emails
containing dangerous attachments
are up more than 25%
Latest ESRA detected
incumbent email security
systems are leaving
organisations vulnerable
to dangerous attachments,
malware, impersonation
attacks and malicious URLs.
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imecast Limited, a leading email
and data security company,
has announced the availability
of its latest quarterly Email Security Risk
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Assessment (ESRA), an aggregated report
of tests that measure the efficacy of widely
used email security systems.
In comparison to the last quarter’s findings,
the new assessment found that email
security systems are missing 25% more
emails containing dangerous file types.
Typically, dangerous file types are rarely
sent via email for legitimate purposes,
such as: .jsp, .exe, .dll and .src, and can
be used to facilitate an attack. Detailed
Mimecast ESRAs help organisations better
understand what types of email-borne
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