This year’s Email Security Risk Report touches on a range of topics from inbound email security and data loss prevention, including the fallout of successful phishing attacks, how Cybersecurity leaders feel about their secure email gateways (SEGs), and the limitations of traditional SAT programs.
Last year was a ground-breaking year for cybersecurity advancements and attacks, with new developments making headlines globally. As threats become more complex and innovative, cybersecurity experts need to stay abreast with themes and patterns within the latest attacks. As we look forward through 2024, we asked experts from our threat intelligence, product management, and customer service teams at Egress to share their predictions for what’s to come in 2024 in this dynamic landscape.
Life is full of problems. A product manager's life is that, and more! But it’s also the very reason we have been able to contribute to many, many awesome products. Since becoming a product manager, I’ve learned that the problems worth solving aren't always easy to spot and you have to do some sifting, rejecting and re-framing to get to the good stuff.
Following the release of the Phishing Threat Trends Report, we recently hosted the Human Risk Summit, a virtual gathering of top industry leaders to discuss human risk in cybersecurity.
As the most downloaded app in the world right now, the number of TEMU impersonation emails has increased by 112% since October 1st, 2023. As discounts and spending-based reward coupons form a substantial part of TEMU’s awareness campaigns, the company is reportedly spending $2bn annually on marketing. As the brand continues to grow in popularity, cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging it to lend authenticity to their spoofing attempts.
Graymail is a nuisance. While the emails are technically solicited, graymail has long been seen to hinder organizations' productivity by distracting employees from messages that matter. When we published the Phishing Threat Trends Report in October 2023, we wanted to look at cybersecurity in a more holistic way and one of the recurring themes that came up in our research was graymail and the effect it can have on productivity levels within a business.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are highlights in the cybercriminals’ calendars, leading to a spike in the number of related phishing attacks. Between November 1st – November 14th, 2023, we've detected a 237% increase in phishing emails relating to Black Friday and Cyber Monday versus the period between September 1st – October 31st, 2023. We predict that this will increase in the run up to this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
As part of our efforts to effectively quantify and demonstrate the return on investment (ROI) for our customers, Egress has commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact of Egress Intelligent Email Security study. As part of this study, Forrester interviewed and gathered data from four Egress customers. This data and the interviewees’ experiences were aggregated to create a composite customer organization – a financial services firm with 9,000 mailboxes.
