Remote/Hybrid Workforce
DON’T LET YOUR SENSITIVE DATA BE HIGH JACKED
Johan Dreyer, EMEA Field Chief Technical Officer at Mimecast examines how the shift to remote working has led to an increase in email and messaging tool usage. Both are vital for collaboration but are also where the risk of compromise is concentrated and how this major security black hole can be reinforced.
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mail and collaboration security company, Mimecast’s EMEA Field Chief Technical Officer, Johan Dreyer explains how
companies must look to safeguard their business infrastructure by securing sensitive data breaches posed by emails.
Can you tell us a bit more about Mimecast and the products and services it offers? Mimecast, is a professional organisation focused on preventing bad things from happening to good organisations by enabling them to work protected. We work with more than 40,000 organisations to help mitigate risk and manage complexities across a threat landscape driven by cyberattacks, human error, and technology failure. Our solutions provide threat detection, brand protection, awareness training, and data retention capabilities that evolving workplaces need today. We manage the risk for a more secure way of working instead of
managing the technology used. Email is a key collaboration tool in our working lives and it is also where risk resides. Te reality of malicious actors, human errors and technology’s potential to fail
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creates increased complexity that IT teams have to stay on top of and secure.
How has the issue of email security deepened over recent years especially with the shiſt to remote working? Te shiſt to remote working has led to an increase in email and messaging tool usage. Both are vital for collaboration but are also where the risk of compromise is concentrated. As cyber-attacks become more rampant, more than eight out of ten companies are bracing for the next email borne threat. Phishing is the most prevalent form of attack, according to Mimecast’s research, with 55% of respondents stating that these are on the rise, and nearly 96% acknowledging that their organisation has faced this threat in the past year.
As staff work on several devices, in different locations, and on
different (more or less secure) networks; the attack surface has widened. Malicious actors also leverage confusion and fear over the current uncertainty to trick employees into clicking on malicious links or disclosing information. Now more than ever, malicious actors are looking to break into
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