Security
experts will perform live email hacks to demonstrate top attack techniques and showcase
how to defend against them
Dubai,
UAE – May 18, 2017 – Mimecast
Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email and data security company, announced
its participation at the 4th Gulf Information Security and Conference (GISEC),
which will be held from May 21st to May 23rd, 2017 at the Dubai World Trade
Centre. The company plans to showcase its full-range of advanced email and data
security services and demonstrate enhanced cyber resilience techniques at the
region’s largest IT security exhibition.
“Middle
East organizations have seen greater volumes of attacks last year and have
suffered larger losses than other regions in the world due to cyber incidents. One of the threat areas that has been mostly ignored
by enterprises is email security. More than 90% of cyberattacks start in emails.
While email, itself, is seldom the end goal for the attackers, over 70% of
these attacks lead to other systems in the network. These email attacks
predominantly feature techniques such as spear-phishing, ransomware and
impersonation of key employees,” said Brian Pinnock, cyber resilience expert
at Mimecast.
“At GISEC
2017, we plan to make visitors aware of the top cyberattack techniques being
adopted by cybercriminals and demonstrate how to defend against these attacks
and human errors. Apart from showcasing our advanced
email security services that help protect against spear-phishing, ransomware
and impersonation attacks, we will also be discussing cyber resilience
strategies that focus on ensuring continuity during an attack and fast recovery
after a threat is neutralized,” Mr Pinnock added.
As
part of its GISEC 2017 activities, Mimecast will demonstrate Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection,
which helps defend against malicious links, weaponized attachments,
impersonation attacks and data loss or malware from internally-generated
emails.
“Mimecast believes that email security is critical
to ensure cyber resilience against targeted attacks and IT failure. As email
moves to the cloud such as Microsoft Office 365, advanced security still
requires a defense-in-depth strategy. Mimecast protects against evolving
attacks, allows organizations to keep email running during an attack and
recover to a last known good state once an attack is over,” Mr. Pinnock
explained.