May 24, 2021
Enterprises faced unprecedented cybersecurity risk in 2020 from increasing attack volume, the pandemic-driven digital transformation of work, and generally deficient cyber preparedness and training.
This is among the findings in Mimecast’s fifth annual “The State of Email Security,” report based on a global survey of 1 225 IT and cybersecurity leaders, and supported by Mimecast’s Threat Center data, which screens more than 1-billion emails per day.
Ransomware looms large
A full 85% of South African respondents indicated their companies had experienced a business disruption, financial loss or other setback in 2020 due to a lack of cyber preparedness. Respondents identified ransomware as the chief culprit behind these disruptions.
iTWire Monday, 26 April 2021 13:42 Mimecast report: 61% of organisations were infected with ransomware in 2020
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The State of Email Security, an annual report published by Mimecast, discovered 79% suffered financial loss, and identified that ransomware was the chief culprit behind these disruptions.
The State of Email Security, a report published by Mimecast, detailed “how enterprises faced cybersecurity risk in 2020 from increasing attack volume, the pandemic-driven digital transformation of work, and generally deficient cyber preparedness and training.”
The fifth annual report is “based on a global survey of 1,225 information technology and cybersecurity leaders, and supported by Mimecast’s Threat Centre data, which screens more than one billion emails per day.”
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