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REPORT REVEALS 60% OF UAE
ORGANISATIONS EXPECT TO
SUFFER EMAIL-BORNE ATTACK
The fourth annual report from Mimecast finds greatest new
concern is email and web spoofing.
Mimecast, a leading email and data
security company, has unveiled
its fourth-annual State of Email
Security 2020 report. This report summarises
details from 1,025 global IT decision makers
on the current state of cybersecurity.
Providing year-over-year comparisons,
along with Mimecast’s analysis from the
first 100-day period of the Coronavirus
public health crisis, the report is designed
to both offer valuable insights into
recent attack trends organisations are
challenged with and to serve as a guide
to drive continuous improvement to any
organisation’s cyber-resilience strategy.
The findings in this year’s State of Email
Security report demonstrate that despite high
levels of confidence in respondents’ cyberresilience
strategies, there is a clear need
for improvement. The large majority (77%)
of global respondents say they have or are
actively rolling out a cyber-resilience strategy.
In the UAE, 80% of respondents are doing
the same. Yet an astounding 60% of
respondents in the UAE, and globally believe
it is inevitable or likely they will suffer from
an email-borne attack in the coming year.
UAE respondents cite data loss (54%), a
decrease in employee productivity (40%)
and business downtime (24%) due to a lack
of cyber-resilience preparedness.
“We’re seeing the same threats that
organisations have faced for years playing out
with tactics matched to world events to evade
detection. The increases in remote working
due to the global pandemic have only
amplified the risks businesses face from these
threats, making the need for effective cyberresilience
essential,” said Joshua Douglas, Vice
President of Threat Intelligence.
“It’s likely that cyber-resilience strategies
are lacking key elements, or don’t have
any at all, depending on the organisation’s
maturity in cybersecurity. Security leaders
need to invest in a strategy that builds
resilience moving at the same pace
as Digital Transformation. This means
organisations must apply a layered
approach to email security, one that consists
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74% OF
RESPONDENTS
WERE HIT BY
MALICIOUS
ACTIVITY SPREAD
FROM EMPLOYEE
TO EMPLOYEE.
of attack prevention, security awareness
training, roaming web security tied to email
efficacy, brand exploitation protection,
threat remediation and Business Continuity.”
Times are changing: The threats you
can’t see impacting your brand
This latest research comes at a time when
organisations across the globe have been
forced to adopt remote work policies for
employees in response to the Coronavirus
pandemic. Threat actors have seized this
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