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Mimecast report finds emails
containing dangerous attachments
are up more than 25%
M
imecast Limited, a leading email
and data security company,
has announced the availability
of its latest quarterly Email Security Risk
Assessment (ESRA), an aggregated report
of tests that measure the efficacy of
widely used email security systems. In
comparison to last quarter’s findings, this
new assessment found that email security
systems are missing 25% more emails
containing dangerous file types.
Typically, dangerous file types are rarely
sent via email for legitimate purposes, such
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as: .jsp, .exe, .dll and .src, and can be used
to facilitate an attack. Detailed Mimecast
ESRAs help organisations better understand
what types of email-borne threats are
getting through their current security system.
Every quarter, Mimecast aggregates
the results of individual ESRA tests and
reports to the industry. To date, Mimecast
has inspected more than 180 million
emails that were deemed ‘safe’ from
these incumbent systems. Within these
emails, the tests found 16,581 emails that
contained dangerous file types.
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