Email is biggest security risk, old devices aren't getting patched, and local cyber 'incidents'

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51% of organisations surveyed by Mimecast have suffered a ransomware attack, meanwhile NTT says ageing devices are causing network vulnerabilities, and two local companies have been struck by 'cyber incidents'.

Email continues to be the most popular attack vector, with a report from Mimecast noting that just over half of those it monitors have experienced a ransomware attack in the past 12 months.

In the State of Email Security 2020 report, Mimecast summarised the results of a global survey of 1,025 IT decision makers along with the information it gathered from screening more than 1 billion emails a day.

It said 51% have been impacted by ransomware in the past 12 months, 31% have experienced data loss due to lack of cyber resilience preparedness, 60% experienced an increase in impersonation fraud in the last year, 82% have experienced downtime from an attack, 77% believe weak passwords pose a risk of a serious security mistake, 58% saw phishing attacks increase, and 60% of respondents' organisations were hit by an attack spread from an infected user to other employees.
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