The Need for Pervasive Email Security

ABSTRACT: As the number one threat vector for most organizations, email continues to be widely used by cyber criminals to penetrate organizations in support of a wide variety of cyber attacks. Unlike other attack vectors, email enables cyber criminals to directly leverage humans in an effort to bypass security controls and facilitate attacks. Recent business email compromise and other sophisticated phishing-related attacks all too often elude traditional email security controls, contributing billions of dollars to the pockets of criminals.

Many organizations are coming up short when protecting against modern email threats. A more comprehensive email security solution is needed—one that protects at the perimeter, inside the network and the organization, and beyond the perimeter. Mimecast’s Email Security 3.0 strategy can help.

Overview

Today’s business users face an unprecedented number of daily emails, from a wide variety of senders, including coworkers, customers, prospects, suppliers, business service providers, and both internal and external cloud-delivered applications distributing machine-generated emails. While email plays a critical role in modern business communications and operations, it also provides attackers with a nearly open door to individuals who can help them bypass security controls and successfully carry out a large variety of attacks.

Email provides criminals with a flexible and ubiquitous attack vehicle, enabling a single email to deliver socially engineered content in conjunction with malicious links and attachments directly to unsuspecting and busy employees at any level within an organization. Supporting this unique threat vector, an entire attack tools and services industry used by non-technical cyber criminals has emerged.

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Beyond the Perimeter

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