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“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 cyber resilience 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 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 opportunity and evolved the ways they are targeting their victims. Domain-spoofing and email-spoofing have become mainstream attack vectors, according to the report.
Nearly half of organisations (49%) surveyed report anticipating an increase in web or email spoofing and brand exploitation in the next 12 months, and it is a rising concern. In fact, 84% of respondents feel concerned about an email domain, web domain, brand exploitation, or site spoofing attack.
It is critical for organisations to look beyond their email perimeters to determine how cyber threat actors may be using and damaging their brands online.
Yesterday’s Threats Are Unwavering Year over Year
Similar to years past, impersonation attacks, phishing attempts and ransomware continue to be a major problem, according to the research. Seventy-two percent of report participants said phishing attacks remained flat or increased in the last 12 months and 74% report the same of impersonation attacks. This indicates that phishing is potentially becoming more difficult to stop or prevent due to more advanced tactics like spear-phishing.
Ransomware also continues to wreak havoc, as just over half of respondents (51%) said ransomware attacks impacted their organisation, citing data loss, downtime, financial loss and loss of reputation or trust among customers.
The Need for a Strong Human Defense
The State of Email Security 2020 report also shines a light on the urgent need for a more cyber aware workforce. Encouragingly, 97% of the respondents’ organisations offer security awareness training at varying frequencies and formats. However, 60% of those surveyed reported having been hit by malicious activity spread from employee to employee, pointing to the fact that the format or frequency of these trainings could be the problem.
With frequent, consistent, engaging content that humanises security, security awareness training is an effective way to reduce risk inside the network and organisation.
