Organizations Can Now
Harness Powerful Security Controls with Impactful Education from the Cloud
Dubai, UAE, June 06, 2017 – Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ:
MIME), a leading email and data security company, has collaborated with PhishMe®
to integrate their expansive security educational content to help organizations
improve employee awareness of common email-borne attacks. The power of Mimecast
and PhishMe together provides customers with enhanced cyber resilience against
the latest spear-phishing, ransomware, and impersonation attacks that are plaguing
organizations today. Through this
partnership, organizations can now harness powerful security controls with
impactful education from the cloud.
Organizations
struggle with being consistent with the security training offered to employees,
if it is done at all. Recent research conducted with Vanson Bourne highlights
the gap organizations need to fill relative to proper security training and
email. This research also found that 39% of IT decision makers in global
organizations had complete confidence they had sufficient email security
training. In fact a mere 15% of respondents reported they conduct near regular
security trainings – 25% reported to offer trainings every month, 32% every
quarter and 13% every year. Only 36%
of organizations increased employee security trainings following the high-profile
cyberattacks of 2016.
PhishMe, a global provider of human phishing defense solutions, will
supply their award-winning, contextual educational material within the Mimecast
Targeted Threat Protection cloud security service. This service includes the
inspection of inbound, outbound and internal emails to help detect and fight
phishing, ransomware, impersonation attempts, as well as malicious URLs and
attachments. When used together, Mimecast and PhishMe
will arm organizations with anti-phishing cloud security services and immersive
behavioral conditioning and phishing reporting for employees.
This collaboration follows the formation of the Cyber Resilience
Coalition by the companies in 2016.
“Most organizations lack both sufficient technical security controls and
end-user education when it comes to identifying and stopping the latest email-borne
threats,” said Ed Jennings, chief operating officer at Mimecast. The
consequence is financial loss, data compromise, business interruption and
reputational damage. Email security training is patchy and inconsistent and
customers have requested help to serve up regular and timely security awareness
training to employees for email-borne security threats. This employee awareness
training is part of a cyber resilience strategy for email that spans security,
business continuity, archiving and end-user empowerment.”