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Mimecast launches AI-enabled solution to battle evasive email threats
CyberGraph creates an identity graph which is built to store information about relationships between all senders and recipients . The graph is designed to detect anomalies and leverages Machine Learning technology to help organizations stay one step ahead of threat actors by alerting employees to potential cyberthreats .
Josh Douglas , VP , Product Management for Threat Intelligence , Mimecast , said : “ CyberGraph leverages our AI and Machine Learning technologies to help keep employees one step ahead with real-time warnings , directly at the point of risk . What makes this exciting is that we are embedding the technology for existing email security customers , they do not need to look for other vendors to fill the gap with technologies that only work to solve part of this challenge .”
The workplace is always the top target of cybercriminals , but in the remote working era , the problem has intensified .
Mimecast has announced the Mimecast CyberGraph solution , a new add-on for Mimecast Secure Email Gateway ( SEG ) that is engineered to use Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) to help detect sophisticated phishing and impersonation attacks .
CyberGraph includes three key capabilities engineered to help prevent cyberthreats :
• Renders embedded trackers useless
• Uses Machine Learning to protect from targeted email threats
• Engages users with contextual , dynamic warning
Kaspersky reveals decrease in DDoS attacks
Kaspersky has revealed a decrease in the number of DDoS attacks . In the second quarter of 2021 , the total number of DDoS attacks decreased by 38.8 % compared to Q2 2020 , and by 6.5 % in comparison to the previous quarter in 2021 .
China became the leader in the number of devices from which SSH attacks1 were carried out . At the same time , China continued to lose ground in terms of the total number of DDoS attacks ( 10.2 %). The US remains the leader ( 36 %) in this category for the second quarter in a row , while Poland and Brazil are new entries in the top five .
Alexey Kiselev , Business Development Manager on the Kaspersky DDoS Protection team , said : “ The second quarter of 2021 was calm , as we expected . There was a slight decrease in the total number of attacks compared to the previous quarter , which is typical for this period and is observed annually . “ We traditionally associate these numbers with the beginning of holidays and vacations . In the third quarter of 2021 , we also do not see any prerequisites for a sharp rise or fall in the DDoS attack market .”
“ The market will also continue to be highly dependent on the rate of cryptocurrencies , which has remained consistently high for a long time .”
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