GISEC 2021 //
ARABIAN RESELLER - MAY 2021
YOUR SECURITY STRATEGY SHOULD MATCH THE CURRENT OPERATING ENVIRONMENT Lara Yousuf, the Partner Manager at Mimecast, speaks about how digital economies can be secured
How has the security threat landscape evolved over the past few months? The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the market significantly and both security and compliance capabilities are challenged in the work from home and now hybrid work phenomenon. Cybercriminals have taken advantage of the uncertainty to accelerate their
phishing, impersonation and ransomware attacks on organisations. According to Mimecast’s report titled “Arabian Peninsula as a Cyber Innovator and Associated Cyber Risk to Resilience in the Region”, researchers observed a month on month increase in malicious files detected in the region over the course of 2020.The report highlighted how between March
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and April - when COVID-19 first began spreading in the region and countries went into lockdown - there was a 93% increase in malicious files detected. There has been a steady increase in malicious files every month since then. Spam has remained the most prominent vector across all sectors throughout the region and
