In the State of Email Security, Mimecast reports that email “impersonation attacks increased almost 70 percent in comparison to the results in last year’s report – with 73 percent of those organizations impacted by impersonation attacks having experienced a direct loss, specifically loss of customers (28%), financial loss (29%) and data loss (40%). Phishing attacks were the most prominent type of cyberattack, with 94 percent of respondents having experienced phishing and spear phishing attacks in the previous 12 months, and…

For those who’ve been doing IT long enough to remember using a green display monitor also remember a time when everything was locked down and centralized. During the early 1980s, Local Area Networks became more popular and with them came decentralization, allowing other internal departments within an organization to take control of their IT requirements directly, and Shadow IT was born! “Shadow IT” is the use of IT-related hardware or software products within an organization without the knowledge of the…

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) has been around for a long time and enjoys a rich history reaching back to 1997, with the SPF Project itself starting in June 2003. (a timeline history of SPF can be found here). However, there are some challenges with SPF's feedback and it is often misunderstood. We take a look at these issues, and at the barriers that are keeping SPF from being better A notable issue with SPF is that the people deploying it have to…