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Internal Threats Personified: How Employees Can Jeopardize Your Cybersecurity

Are your employees your greatest asset, or your weakest link?

When it comes to securing email and protecting against cyberattacks, most organizations focus their attention and resources on inbound emails. Yet, only 40% of email originates through inbound system traffic. The other 60% of email traffic is introduced via internal-to-internal (40%) or outbound (20%) email communications. This eBook takes a close look at several email-related activities that employees often engage in that contribute to the spread of insider threats and discusses what measures organizations can take to protect themselves.

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61% of organizations were hit by an attack where malicious activity was spread from one infected user to other employees via email. - Mimecast's 2018 State of Email Security Report