87% of security professionals have deployed an email security solution, according to data from 451 Research. Yet phishing is among the top three pain points for CISOs.
Because of this, 46% of security practitioners think email is the greatest threat to data security — nearly 5x higher than the next-highest responses, which were web browsing and internal network traffic, at 10% respectively. But only 7% of firms plan to invest in email security during the next 12 months.
Security Analyst Garrett Bekker researched this topic, armed with 451's Voice of the Enterprise data to better understand this discrepancy, and what enterprises can do to better address the threats posed by business email compromise and advance phishing attacks.
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451 Research is an information technology industry analyst firm, headquartered in New York with offices in London, Boston, Washington DC, and San Francisco. Founded in 2001, the company claims over 250 employees, over 100 industry analysts and over 1000 clients. The company produces qualitative and quantitative research, across thirteen research channels, and targets service providers, technology vendors, enterprise IT leaders and financial professionals.
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