Your Corporate Email System Is Under Attack: Here's How To Better Protect It
Continuity Central, December 22nd, 2022
It's well known that email is one of the most important attack vectors for corporate systems, but how do you keep up with attack developments? Mike Puglia offers some advice.
Since email was first developed in 1971, it has become increasingly critical to business operations. Today, bad actors are utilising its importance to gain access to critical systems, compromise data and threaten organizational infrastructures. The first cyber attack via email occurred in 1988, using a computer at MIT to infect systems at Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, NASA and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with growing proliferation of cyber attacks in the following years. The Anti-Phishing Work Group reports there were one million phishing attacks in the first half of 2022 alone. For enterprises, this is verging on an emergency - and it underlines the pressing need to choose the right email security solution.