Adeshni Rohit, Axiz

We’ve been sending emails since the 1970s, but over 50 years later, email security remains a challenge. Alongside multiple generations of security products attempting to defend the inbox came increasingly sophisticated attacks that always find a way to bypass any sort of controls. And with everything moving to the cloud, email is not only a delivery vector – the mailbox is now the target. In the cloud, email is not simply a messaging protocol, but a content repository filled with sensitive data cybercriminals are looking to exploit. So, what can a traditional phishing tool actually do about the content sitting in a mailbox at rest?

Mimecast’s ‘State of Email and Collaboration Security 2024’ report ranked account takeover as one of the top five email security challenges. Phishing is still how threat actors are getting in, and AI is only increasing the attack volume. “Existing technologies may protect organisations from malicious attachments, links, spam and generic AI-driven phishing,” says Brian Pinnock, Mimecast’s vice-president of sales engineering for EMEA.