Over Half of Employees Don't Adhere to Email Security Protocols

As many as 87% of 280 decision makers have predicted email threats to increase in the coming year, according to a survey by Barracuda Networks. 

According to its blog post, many organizations are admitting to being vastly unprepared when it comes to email security, with 94% admitting that “email is still the most vulnerable part of organizations’ security postures. 

“Unsurprisingly, finance departments seem to experience the most attacks, with 57% identifying it as the most targeted department," explained Chris Ross, senior vice-president of international sales at Barracuda. “What was surprising was the rise in customer support attacks; a not insignificant 32% identified this as their most attacked department in what could indicate a new emerging trend for would-be attackers.”

The blog goes onto say that employee training is still not a priority for many, with 29% of respondents only receiving such training once a year. More shockingly, 7% stated they’d either never had training or that they weren’t sure.

“The lack of training is clearly leaving employees either confused or unaware of security protocol, as over half (56%) stated that some employees do not adhere to security policies,” Ross continued. “Of those, 40% said their employees used a ‘workaround’ to do so, perhaps referring to shadow IT solutions and the issues they continue to cause in enterprise IT environments. 

“Both of these issues could be solved by regular and in-depth employee security training,” he concluded. 

Organizations have also seen cyber-attacks come through emails. In the last year, according to the survey, 47% were attacked by ransomware, 31% were victim to a business email compromise attack, and a huge 75% admitted to having be ..

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