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Securing the Enterprise
in the COVID World
with
Mark Szotkowski Thom Bailey
RapidScale CSO Mimecast Head of
Product Marketing
Reminders
This webinar session is being recorded.
The deck and recording will be sent via
email as soon as they’re available.
If you have any questions throughout the
presentation, chat them through the Q&A
panel and we’ll get them answered.
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The State of Email Security Report
• The fifth-annual report of 1,225 global IT decision makers
self-reporting details on the current state of email security.
• The 2021 report’s findings provide important insights into
the dramatic surge in cyberattacks since the global
pandemic began.
• Based on interviews with 1,225 information technology and
cybersecurity professionals from 12 industries across 10
countries (US, UK, NL, Nordics, Germany, ME, RSA, AUS).
• It documents how companies are coping against the cyber
threats they face which we will explore in this discussion.
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Key Findings
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The Impact of COVID-19
Hackers took advantage of the pandemic’s fear and
confusion
• Survey respondents reported that email-based security threats soared
by 64%.
• By taking advantage of all the apprehension surrounding the
pandemic and the sudden shift to home-based work that it required,
common ploys used by cybercriminals have been increasingly
successful.
• Mimecast researchers found, for example, that as the pandemic took
hold, employees began clicking on three times as many malicious
emails as they had before.
• Collaboration tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams have become
increasingly popular — but also increasingly targeted by
cybercriminals, and more than two-thirds of the 2021 survey
respondents (70%) expressed concerns about the risks posed by these
programs, specifically about having archived records of conversations.
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Email – A Useful But
Dangerous Tool
Digital workforce under attack
• Respondents view email as their biggest security challenge, 70%
of respondents reconsider it likely* (*likely, extremely likely, and
inevitable) that email-borne attacks will damage their business
sometime during 2021 (compared to 59% in last year’s report).
• 52% cited the growing volume of attacks among their top
challenges, while even more tellingly, 43% said that employee
naiveté about cybersecurity is one of their greatest
vulnerabilities.
• Email usage increased this past year at 8 out of 10 companies.
Since the pandemic began, phishing attacks have increased in
63% of companies.
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The Rise of Ransomware
A very prominent and disruptive threat
• More than 6 out of 10 respondents suffered a ransomware attack
last year (compared to 51% of respondents in last year’s report).
• Those companies that were afflicted experienced an average of
six days of downtime as a result, and for more than a third of
them (37%) it was a week or more (compared to an average of 3
days in last year’s report).
• Among the affected companies, more than half (52%) paid the
ransom. But of these, just shy of two-thirds (65%) recovered their
data. The other third (35%) failed to get their data back, despite
paying the ransom.
• In contrast to this, 66% of respondents believed they would not
pay the ransom and recover they data if they were to fall victim
to a ransomware attack.
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Cyber Resilience Is
Key…Right?
How to keep threats at bay
• The COVID pandemic may be waning; but as 2021 progresses,
bad actors will continue to exploit it. Statistically speaking, the
likelihood of them doing so is greater than 95%, according to the
Mimecast Threat Center, which analyzes over one billion emails
globally each working day. Nearly half of organizations (49%)
surveyed report anticipating an increase in web or email
spoofing and brand exploitation.
• 79% of companies were hurt by their lack of cyber preparedness.
• The good news is that, per our survey respondents, 44% of the
companies surveyed already have a cyber resilience strategy in
place.
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Backup
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