Mimecast CEO, Peter Bauer,\u00a0has\u00a0outlined the company’s vision of the future of email security.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Modern organisations are\u00a0required\u00a0to think bigger and create proactive cyber-resilience postures that address the threats at the email perimeter, inside the email network and also beyond their purview, to eliminate the threats that abuse the trust in their brands out in the wild.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Organisations must also leverage the vast telemetry and threat intelligence that can be gathered at the attack surface of their email systems to make their teams and their other security investments smarter and more effective \u2013 this is what\u00a0Bauer\u00a0referred\u00a0to as advancing from perimeter email security to pervasive email security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bauer further\u00a0explained\u00a0that the future of email security is\u00a0comprised of three distinct zones, alongside an API-led approach,\u00a0that organisations need to recognise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zone 1 \u2013\u00a0Perimeter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The email security perimeter is focused on keeping\u00a0users and data safe by protecting email against spam and viruses, malware and impersonation attempts and data\u00a0leaks. Organisations need\u00a0global visibility\u00a0that offers\u00a0rapid detection of sophisticated threats\u00a0to protect their entire customer, partner and vendor ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zone 2 \u2013 Inside the perimeter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Compromised users whose accounts are being taken advantage of, lateral movement using credential harvesting links, social engineering and employee errors\u00a0are\u00a0threats and risks that\u00a0manifest inside the perimeter. Organisations should combine security inspections\u00a0of\u00a0internal and outbound email traffic with\u00a0capabilities\u00a0to build\u00a0a stronger human firewall through dynamic user awareness training and testing programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They also need rapid remediation capabilities to extract threats and shut down access to compromised accounts. This will help to ensure\u00a0that an organisation’s internal network, made up of people and machines,\u00a0is robust and capable of defending itself when attacks occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zone 3 \u2013 Beyond the email perimeter \u2013 Pervasiveness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Organisations need\u00a0the ability to\u00a0protect their brands and domains from being explicitly spoofed or hijacked to defraud customers and partners. This requires the ability to implement DMARC efficiently as well as to hunt for and take action against threats where attackers present themselves fraudulently to an organisation’s customers or partners using deception and impersonation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyond the zones: API-driven security ecosystem integration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n To move from perimeter to pervasive email security requires an extensible architecture that allows organisations to fully integrate the value of the telemetry and intelligence gathered through observing email attacks with their existing technologies such as SOARs, SIEMs, endpoints, firewalls and broader threat intelligence platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n An API-driven approach further helps deliver pervasive security throughout all zones. This allows organisations to make their teams and other security investments even more effective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe expanded attack surface, the proliferation of security vendors and the monetisation of attacks have all increased the complexity of an organisation’s security infrastructure. When you consider the cybersecurity skills gap that most organisations face today, the threat of business disruption due to a cyber incident is certainly on the rise,\u201d said Peter Bauer, Chief Executive Officer at Mimecast.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAddressing complexity is as much of a priority as increasing security. Adding new solutions to your security stack\u00a0to help thwart new attacks may be counter-intuitive if those solutions don\u2019t connect with each other.\u00a0There\u2019s power in platform-based solutions that can give organisations\u00a0the visibility they need to\u00a0help\u00a0reduce risk and\u00a0build\u00a0a stronger proactive cyber-resilience posture,\u201d added Bauer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition,\u00a0Mimecast\u00a0also\u00a0announced it has engaged in\u00a0strategic partnerships with\u00a0DMARC Analyzer\u00a0and Segasec to offer brand protection against threats outside the perimeter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Combining Mimecast defences with DMARC Analyzer\u2019s reporting and email validation solution, helps customers stop impersonation attacks faster with self-service email channel analysis and DMARC Reporting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The strategic partnership with\u00a0Segasec\u00a0means customers can help\u00a0protect their brands from fraudulent impersonators in the wild and neutralise attacks before they are released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These new technology partnerships in combination with\u00a0Mimecast\u2019s Cyber Resilience platform\u00a0offers\u00a0organisations\u00a0full end-to-end detection and take down capabilities when a malicious actor conducts impersonation activities against an organisation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additionally, customers benefit from integrated, unparalleled visibility into inbound threats as well as those that exist beyond their visibility, helping to restore trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mimecast CEO, Peter Bauer,\u00a0has\u00a0outlined the company’s vision of the future of email security.\u00a0 Modern organisations are\u00a0required\u00a0to think bigger and create proactive cyber-resilience postures that address the threats at the email perimeter, inside the email network and also beyond their purview, to eliminate the threats that abuse the trust in their brands out in the wild.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":29889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[11585,2176,11586,5882,11587],"class_list":["post-29886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-news","tag-chief-executive-officer-at-mimecast","tag-cyber-resilience","tag-dmarc-analyzer","tag-peter-bauer","tag-segasec"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29888,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29886\/revisions\/29888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}