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In today’s cloud-first approach to managing corporate infrastructure and running applications, more than 56% of global organizations use Microsoft for email. Whether using Microsoft 365 (M365) or Office 365 (O365), this shift to the cloud has supported an agile and fluid way of doing business for more than 250 million monthly users. This paper reviews …
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Since its initial identification in 2013, business email compromise (BEC) has been dominated by executive impersonation. But over the past few years, attackers have adjusted their strategies—opting to impersonate third party vendors and suppliers instead. In January 2022, the number of attacks impersonating third parties surpassed those impersonating internal employees for the first time. This …
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Business email compromise (BEC) is the most significant cybersecurity threat to enterprise organizations, with $2.7 billion lost in 2022 alone. This type of email attack occurs when a cybercriminal uses social engineering to impersonate a trusted contact—typically an executive, co-worker, vendor, or partner—in an effort to steal money or valuable information. Because these emails rarely …
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As organizations have migrated to cloud-based infrastructure and office platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, they’ve seen clear benefits: easier collaboration, greater agility, and lower costs and maintenance related to infrastructure. But for most organizations, the challenge of determining how to keep data protected and employees safe from attacks in a cloud-based environment remains …
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