Improve Email Security
Follow the latest best practices for email security to mitigate evolving threats.
As the sophistication of malicious attacks increases, it has become more difficult to ensure applications such as email software are properly protected and secured. The increase in usage and traffic of email exacerbates the security risks to the organization.
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Critical Insight
Email has changed. Your email security needs to evolve as well to ensure you are protecting your organization’s communication.
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- Gain an understanding of the importance of email security and steps to secure your corporate email.
- Develop holistic guidelines on implementing best practices to modernize your organization’s email security.
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Improve Email Security
Follow the latest best practices for email security to mitigate evolving threats.
Analyst Perspective
Protecting your organization’s digital assets begins with securing your email communication.
As organizations increasingly rely on email communication for day-to-day business operations, threat actors are exploiting the increased traction to develop and implement more sophisticated email-based attacks. Furthermore, the lack of investment in measures, tools, and technologies for an organization’s email security exacerbates the vulnerabilities at hand.
Effective use of security procedures and techniques can mitigate and minimize email-based threats have been shown to reduce the ability of these attacks to infiltrate the email inbox. These guidelines and best practices will help your organization conduct due diligence to protect the contents of the email, its transit, and its arrival to the authorized recipient.
Ahmad Jowhar
Research Specialist, Security & Privacy
Info-Tech Research Group
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Info-Tech Insight
Email has changed. Your email security must evolve to ensure the safety of your organization’s communication.
Your Challenge
As a security leader, you need to modernize your email security services so you can protect business communications and prevent security incidents.
- Various factors must be considered when deciding how best to safeguard your organization’s communication chain. This includes the frequency of email traffic and the contents of emails.
- The increased number of email-based cyberattacks reveals the sophistication of threat actors in leveraging an organization’s lack of email security to infiltrate their business.
- As organizations continue to rely heavily on email communication, email-based threats will become increasingly prevalent.
75% of organizations have experienced an increase in email-based threats.
97% of security breaches are due to phishing attacks.
82% of companies reported a higher volume of email in 2022.
Source: Mimecast, 2023.
Modern email security controls framework for security leaders
Email has changed. Your email security must evolve to ensure the safety of your organization’s communication.
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