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Research: 53 % of organisations predict they will suffer email-borne attack in 2018

Mimecast has announced enhancements to its Targeted Threat Protection services
With new research from Mimecast and Vanson Bourne revealing that 53 % of organisations expect a negative business impact from emailborne threats in 2018, it is clear that serious preventative measures are needed. Here, Mimecast outlines some of the new enhancements to its Targeted Threat Protection services and the difference these could make to enterprise security this year.
imecast, a leading email and

M data security company, has announced enhancements to its Targeted Threat Protection services which are engineered to combat and remediate the evolving threat landscape.

The new features of the services – Impersonation Protect, URL Protect and Internal Email Protect – include supply chain impersonation protection, similar domain detection, the integration of new automated intelligence feeds, as well as the introduction of automated threat remediation capabilities.
New research from Mimecast and Vanson Bourne revealed that
organisations are not only facing a variety of different threats but the volume and frequency of these attacks continue their upward trajectory. In fact, 53 % expect a negative business impact from these email-borne threats in 2018.
Impersonation attacks commonly use social engineering and are designed to trick users such as finance managers, executive assistants and HR representatives into making wire transfers or providing information which can be monetised by cybercriminals.
Normally, these attacks target people from within the same company. However, attackers have started to impersonate
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