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Let me say something totally surprising: Email security is top of mind for everyone these days.

Shocking, I know.

Email is still the #1 attack vector. How do you ensure that your employees can distinguish a malicious email from a good one? Click To Tweet

Organizations want to ensure that malicious emails don’t make it inside the organization. Attackers want to do everything from installing bad software to taking over a user’s account, which makes sense considering that email still reigns as the number one attack vector. Many of you already rely on Barracuda to protect your end users from attacks. But are you thinking about protecting your organization from the people who are opening and reading those emails if malicious messages do happen to make it past your defenses? How do you ensure that they can identify a bad email from a seemingly good one?

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As information security professionals approach the finish line of another year, it’s fair to say the past 12 months have once again been packed with incident. Just as cybercrime is no respecter of international borders, so it doesn’t usually conform to neat 12-month cycles. However, taking stock of the biggest trends and stories over the year can be a useful discipline in helping to drive a more strategic way of thinking going forward.

So what have we learned from 2018?

What have we learned from 2018? Email is still the #1 threat vector, delivering attacks phishing, BEC, crypto-mining, ransomware, and other attacks in ~ 1 of every 10 messages. via @PhilMuncaster Click To Tweet

Email still the number one vector

First, the stuff you already know. Email continued to be the number one threat vector this year, accounting for over 80% of threats spotted in the wild, according to most estimates. One firm claimed that as many as one in 10 emails are malicious. They deliver phishing attempts, BEC scams, crypto-mining malware, ransomware and much more. Over a third of global organisations Barracuda Networks interviewed for its Email Security Trends 2018 report said they’d experienced a phishing attack. That’s bad news when you consider that 93% of all breaches analysed by Verizon featured a phishing element.

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