Avanan Blog Industry Insights (7)


Ransomware: Treasury Department Indicates Payback May Be Illegal

A bad scenario: You've been hit with ransomware. That's becoming an increasingly likely scenario. It's been happening at record and rising rates, as this chart from ...

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State-Sponsored Hacking: Nearly Half of Americans Affected

Though Internet threats abound, many average perusers of the Web tend to feel pretty confident that they aren't the target of state-sponsored hacking.

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Ask Brian Krebs Anything: Upcoming Event About Cloud Email Security

Avanan is excited to be hosting an upcoming event that will cover everything you've ever wondered about cloud email security.

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Microsoft 365: What to Do When Your Account is Compromised

In January of 2020, 1.2 million Microsoft accounts were compromised. That's according to the company's own data. And, the company says, this is par for the course.

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Incident Response: Alleviate Your SOC's Burden with Avanan

No matter the industry, no matter the company, one thing is clear—phishing is the number one threat resulting in breaches. You feel it on a daily basis. And it's bac...

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Gartner Market Guide for Email Security in 2020

We get a lot of questions about Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Email Security. The simple answer: Gartner no longer publishes a Magic Quadrant for Email Security. They...

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Forrester Security and Risk Global 2020: Zero Trust is the Only Truth

The 2020 Forrester Risk and Security conference was held virtually earlier this week and though the topics ran the gamut, including our presentation about our partne...

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Remote Learning: As Virtual School Starts, So Do Cyber Attacks

Remote learning and virtual schooling is starting up in most parts of the country.

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Email Security: Invest Now, Save Later

  Highlights With companies in cost-cutting mode, many are looking to reduce security spending. Email security offers the greatest ROI in reduction in overall risk E...

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How Office 365 ATP's High Confidence in Phishing Creates False Positives

Within Microsoft ATP, users can control over how aggressive the phishing protections are. There are four options, ranging from the standard default to most aggressiv...

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Vishing: New Threat to VPNs

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, hackers have been trying everything they can to take advantage of stressed and distracted employees, those who are working at home...

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Why Cyber Attacks on Banks Are The Biggest Security Threats to The Financial Sector

Highlights: Banks are 300% more likely to be attacked than the average industry and were the most attacked vertical in 2019 Cyber attacks on banks have increased dra...

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Why Hospitals Are a Huge Target For Cyber Attacks

Highlights: In addition to fighting off the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have been hit by hackers in record-breaking numbers Protecting health care organizations is ...

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Nothing to Hide: Avanan’s “Secret” Sauce, For All to See

We've heard this a lot from our customers, especially when it relates to Secure Email Gateways like Proofpoint and Mimecast. When they asked their previous email sec...

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Garmin Ransomware Attack: New Escalation From Hackers

Garmin was hit with a ransomware attack in late July that affected their website, call centers and other services. 

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5 Questions Your Secure Email Gateway Vendor Hopes You Never Ask

If you use Microsoft 365 or G-Suite and are considering a Secure Email Gateway , these are the 5 questions you must ask every vendor. You won't find the answers in t...

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The Twitter attack reminds us the perils of internal threats

Twitter Hack: Attackers Gained Access Via Stolen Credentials

The Twitter attack that saw a number of major accounts—like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk and other celebrities—overtaken and hacked was done via a spear phishi...

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Microsoft 365 is Officially the Most Targeted Platform for Hackers

A new report confirms what has long been assumed: Microsoft Office is now the most targeted platform for hackers.

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Companies Are Ditching Secure Email Gateways. This is Why.

Secure Email Gateways were built for on-premises use and in that capacity they worked well. But ask yourself: when was the last time your email was on-premises? It's...

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API-Based Security: We Prevent. They Respond.

Highlights Avanan is the pioneer in API-based email security, having substantially more deployments than all other API-based vendors combined. The critical architect...

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