Email remains a primary tool not only for
legitimate marketers, but also for cyber criminals.
A full 92% of companies have experienced an email-related security incident in the past, year, according to the
2022 Email Security Trends Report, a study by AimPoint Group, sponsored by Abnormal.
Indeed, 28% of marketers say they have experienced from one to five incidents, while 39%
have had six to 10, 19% have experienced 11 to 25, and 6%, more than 25.
Businesses rate the following types of email threats as follows, on a scale of one to
five:
- Malicious attachments — 3.83
- Ransomware (delivered via email) — 3.82
- Credential phishing — 3.78
- Malicious URLs — 3.73
- Business email compromise — 3.63
- Supply-chain compromise — 3.59
- Spam — 3.41
- Graymail — 3.25
Dealing with these
threats is time-consuming — 54% of respondents say they need more than a half hour to remediate each phishing email reported by someone within the company.
Only 8% say they require
10%, while 38% say they need 11-30 minutes, while 41% say they require 31-60 minutes, 12% need 1 to 2 hours and 1% require over 2 hours.
In addition, the study found that 78% of
stakeholders believe secure email gateways are largely incapable of protecting cloud email environments.
Yet 93% of companies have adopted a cloud email solution, or
plan to acquire one.
In addition, 79% say they feel native security capabilities of cloud email solutions offer insufficient protection.
But 90% believe a
combination of cloud email provider’s native security capabilities and an integrated cloud email security platform can replace the full functionality of an SEG.
AimPoint Group surveyed 300 security leaders.