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Millions of email attacks missed by organisations’ cyber security protection – IT Brief Australia
While organisations have invested in protection against email threats, many of these attacks slip through gateways, landing in users inboxes.
Millions of email attacks are being missed by organisations’ cyber security protection, according to new research from Barracuda.
In 2020, 4550 organisations used Barracuda Email Threat Scanner to scan 2,600,531 unique mailboxes and found 2,029,413 unique attacks. On average, 512 attacks were found per organisation, and one out of seven mailboxes (14%) had at least one attack currently sitting inside, even if messages were scanned by an email gateway solution, the cyber security firm says.
The attacks…
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