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Dawn Creter

6 Email Security Predictions: Experts Weigh-in

With continued economic uncertainty, combined with a predicted $9.5 trillion in damages from cybercrime in 2024, organizations will once again have to decide where they place their resources to protect their business. And as we continue to see, secure email gateways (SEGs) are still unreliable as a main source of email security, as they can miss up to 50% of malicious emails targeting enterprise organizations.

Business focus: Threat intelligence moves from a ‘possibility’ to a ‘must’

Expected developments highlighted by Cofense experts include: QR Codes are just getting started. Threat actors will capitalize on the advancement of AI, ML and ChatGPT through malicious emails. A new malware family will fill the void left behind by Qakbot. The cybersecurity threat landscape will intensify as social engineering attacks surge. Email security reporting will be front in centre in the boardroom. Organizations will shift to focusing on what they do not know about their cybersecurity risks, leaning on threat intelligence more than ever.

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