By Rahul Powar, CEO and co-founder, Red Sift
Times change, technologies continue to evolve, and yet email remains the easiest avenue of attack for cybercriminals looking to hack into your business Need convincing? Well, in 2018 94% of malware attacks were deployed by email, 78% of cyber espionage incidents used phishing, and 32% of all reported breaches involved phishing[1] (let’s not dwell too much on the possible scale of unreported breaches).
Securing email
The truth is that email has been the easiest avenue of attack for at least two decades and, unless there are some fundamental changes in how the problem is addressed at a global level, it will probably remain so for another decade.
In the meantime, businesses continue to look for ways of increasing their level of inbound protection – deploying security products that attempt to block access to infected sites or identify unsavoury email content before it reaches the recipient. These products come in many different shapes and sizes and are then augmented by a ‘human shield’, i.e. the vigilance of the employees to spot phishing scams and fraudulent messages that have outwitted the technology.
The issue with this is that it still takes just one employee – anyone from the new junior executive to the CEO – to take the bait, click on the infected link or download the malicious attachment, and the inbound defences could unravel entirely.
The blame game
Blaming individuals for such errors gets us nowhere. After all, scammers do this for a living – they’re really very good at outwitting peop ..
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