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Mimecast and PhishMe Collaborate to Improve Cyber Resilience
June 2017 by Marc Jacob
Mimecast
Limited has collaborated with PhishMe(r) to integrate their expansive security
educational content to help organizations improve employee awareness of common
email-borne attacks. The power of Mimecast and PhishMe together provides customers
with enhanced cyber resilience against the latest spear-phishing, ransomware, and
impersonation attacks that are plaguing organizations today. Through this
partnership, organizations can now harness powerful security controls with impactful
education from the cloud.
Organizations struggle with being consistent with the security training offered to
employees, if it is done at all. Recent research conducted with Vanson Bourne
highlights the gap organizations need to fill relative to proper security training
and email. This research also found that 39% of IT decision makers in global
organizations had complete confidence they had sufficient email security training.
In fact a mere 15% of respondents reported they conduct near regular security
trainings - 25% reported to offer trainings every month, 32% every quarter and 13%
every year. Only 36% of organizations increased employee security trainings
following the high-profile cyberattacks of 2016.
PhishMe, a global provider of human phishing defense solutions, will supply their
award-winning, contextual educational material within the Mimecast Targeted Threat
Protection cloud security service. This service includes the inspection of inbound,
outbound and internal emails to help detect and fight phishing, ransomware,
impersonation attempts, as well as malicious URLs and attachments. When used
together, Mimecast and PhishMe will arm organizations with anti-phishing cloud
security services and immersive behavioral conditioning and phishing reporting for
employees.
This collaboration follows the formation of the Cyber Resilience Coalition by the
companies in 2016.
