Email and data security company Mimecast has released the results of its latest Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA) which finds that mail security systems inaccurately deemed nearly 17,000 dangerous files ’safe‘ this quarter.
Email and data security company Mimecast has released the results of its latest Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA) which finds that mail security systems inaccurately deemed nearly 17,000 dangerous files ’safe‘ this quarter.
That represents a 25 percent increase over the previous quarter. Dangerous file types like jsp,.exe, .dll and .src are rarely emailed for legitimate purposes and can be used launch a cyberattack.
