Discover the Four Tenets to Address Advanced Email Security Threats by Gartner^®

Email security remains critical due to evolving threats such as AI generated phishing and credential theft. This research equips security and risk management leaders with essential strategies to build a robust email security strategy and effectively mitigate advanced attacks.

• Malicious actors leverage generative AI to create more convincing phishing emails and exploit new attack vectors like QR code phishing. These emails are difficult to detect as they evade traditional spam filters and trick users into unknowingly visiting phishing websites that lead to data breaches and fraud.
• Credential theft is now a common attack technique. For example, malicious actors redirect email recipients to fraudulent cloud-based software (SaaS) platforms like Microsoft 365, which impersonate legitimate SaaS services to steal login credentials.
• Many email security solution providers and clients primarily focus on inbound email security. However, significant threats such as sensitive data breaches due to misdirected emails, domain abuse and outbound phishing emails from compromised email accounts go unnoticed, causing compliance/legal issues and reputation damage to impacted organizations.
• Human errors account for 68% of all security breaches. Users often fall victim to phishing attacks, click malicious links and reuse weak passwords, unknowingly granting attackers access to sensitive information or to the organization.