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Amarasingha . “ And if an email turns out to be a false positive , we can quickly restore the deleted message .”
Customer outcome
Years into their partnership , Cushman and Wakefield continues to rely on Mimecast for information security innovation . “ We ’ re now using DMARC Analyzer to see who is receiving emails from our brand and can use that information to identify partners or threats ,” said Amarasingha . “ DMARC recently helped us diagnose a marketing tool issue with email delivery problems that could have prevented converting prospects into clients .”
We spoke to Erik Hart to gain further insight into how the end-user utilised Mimecast ’ s solution to enhance business operations .
Can you tell us more about your role at Cushman and Wakefield and about your responsibilities as CISO ?
I am Global CISO for Cushman and Wakefield . So , all of our cybersecurity as well as our IT controls initiatives are my responsibility .
What trends have you seen in the email security space over the last year or so and how has this impacted your operations ?
There are a couple of trends we ' re seeing in the email security space : number one is an increase in various phishing techniques – one aspect is trying to get people to either download or click on something , get access to their computer and thus move throughout the organisation .
I think the bigger trend we ' re seeing is a lot of these email fraud problems that are going on where it ' s a domain that may look similar and not necessarily trying to get somebody to download or install something but take operational action to do something .
We ' ve seen this with a number of clients where their email systems have been compromised and different payment information on invoicing has changed . And they are the two trends we ' re seeing
Really working with us to come up with solutions and help configure the Mimecast system to support our business needs has been a massive benefit .
there : how do you protect against those impersonation-type attacks , and then how do you protect from those ‘ bad clicks ’ at the end of the day .
And the other trend we ’ re also starting to see is how do you integrate your email system so it can start talking to more of your other security systems .
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