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incumbent providers and delivered to users’
inboxes. This latest report concludes that an
aggregate 12% of all secured and filtered
email were unwanted emails and thus were
false negatives. of threats of all types. The ESRA provides
deep insights for our customers on
the types of attacks threatening their
business,” said Lindsay Jack, security service
director at Mimecast.
“Mimecast has seen an increase in security
efficacy versus legacy vendors along with
detailed information on the proliferation “Attacks we are seeing include key executives
being targeted with cloud storage services
exploits, impersonation attacks targeting
“
IN COMPARISON
TO LAST
QUARTER’S
FINDINGS, THIS
NEW ASSESSMENT
FOUND THAT
EMAIL SECURITY
SYSTEMS ARE
MISSING 25%
MORE EMAILS
CONTAINING
DANGEROUS
FILE TYPES.
legal, finance and administrative assistance
as well as social engineering attacks against
the c-suite.
“Mimecast helps organisations understand
how they compare with other organisations
in their geography or industry vertical.
Additionally, these reports provide insights
on the rise of new types of malware and key
trends in malicious email campaigns.”
Matthew Gardiner, cybersecurity strategist
at Mimecast, said: “Cybercriminals are
constantly adapting their email-based
attacks, looking for new ways to bypass
security solutions that rely too heavily
on reputation-based detection or file
signature matches. This quarter we saw a
particularly large jump in emails containing
dangerous file types.
“Mimecast uses multiple layers and types
of detection engines, combined with high
performance analytics, a diverse set of
threat intelligence sources, and computer
aided human analysis to identify and
stop unsafe emails from getting into our
customers’ inboxes.” n
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