Email

Meeting Google and Yahoo’s Upcoming Email Authentication Requirements: Valimail launches Align

San Francisco, CA (January 4, 2024)Valimail, the leading DMARC vendor and provider of automated email authentication and anti-phishing solutions, today launches Valimail Align, a tailored solution for quickly validating compliance status to meet the new sender authentication requirements from Google and Yahoo, and streamlining the path towards overall DMARC compliance for companies of all sizes.

Research indicates that encrypted connections have become the preferred method for malware delivery, putting organizations that don’t decrypt traffic at higher risk 

March 29, 2023 – WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today released findings from its most recent Internet Security Report, detailing the top malware trends and network and endpoint security threats analyzed by WatchGuard Threat Lab researchers in Q4 2022. While key findings from the data showed declines in network-detected malware, endpoint ransomware increased a startling 627%, and malware associated with phishing campaigns continued to be a persistent threat. 

99% of cybersecurity leaders are stressed about email security

LONDON, UK / March 7, 2023 - Egress, a cybersecurity company that provides intelligent email security, today released its Email Security Risk Report 2023. The report uncovers findings that demonstrate the prevalence of inbound and outbound email security incidents in Microsoft 365, with 92% of organizations falling victim to successful phishing attacks in the last 12 months, while 91% of organizations admit they have experienced email data loss. Not surprisingly, 99% of cybersecurity leaders confess to being stressed about email security. Specifically, 98% are frustrated with their Secure Email Gateway (SEG), with 53% conceding that too many phishing attacks bypass it.

The Top Online Security Measures All Small Businesses Should Take

Cybersecurity is important to all businesses that exist online. It allows them to operate without interruption from hackers' financial exploits. 

Even if your company is planning to use email or has a small website in mind, your business needs to integrate cybersecurity into that plan. 

The theft of data and sensitive information is becoming more common in fraud reports. According to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report for Small Business, Ransomware has increased by 13% in a total of 25% breaches.

3 in 5 Organizations Experienced Accidental Data Loss Over Email in the Past Year

SAN FRANCISCO - May 18, 2022 - New research from email security company Tessian and the Ponemon Institute reveals that nearly 60% of organizations experienced data loss or exfiltration caused by an employee mistake on email in the last 12 months. Email was revealed as the riskiest channel for data loss in organizations, as stated by 65% of IT security practitioners. This was closely followed by cloud file-sharing services (62%) and instant messaging platforms (57%).

The Ponemon Institute surveyed 614 IT security practitioners to also reveal that:

4 Actionable Ways for Businesses to Improve Email Storage Management

Gone are the days when businesses could thrive within their target markets without following modern technological trends and tailoring their strategies accordingly. With the advent of cloud platforms and all the latest developments within the cloud-based technologies, there’s no room for excuses against using cloud solutions. 

Badly Trained Spam – Only A Quarter of Brits Train their Spam Filter

6 February 2020, London: British email users want to have as little to do with spam as possible! Only a quarter of Brits (25%) mark suspicious emails as spam or move them to the ‘Spam’ Folder, while the majority (55%) delete potential spam unread. Nearly seven percent (7%) read the email first and then delete it and four percent (4%) simply leave the spam unopened in their inbox. Fewer than 1% of users say that they reply to the spam. These are the findings of a representative survey of 2,000 people in the UK commissioned by German email service providers GMX.

Facebook and web lead the way for UK customer experience - email and Twitter lag behind

Reading, UK, 21 March 2019 – UK brands are undermining consumer trust and risking revenues by failing to deliver consistent, multichannel customer service, according to the 2019 Eptica Digital Trust Study.

While brands answered 69% of all routine queries via the web, email, Facebook and Twitter, this masked wide gaps between different brands, sectors and channels. For example, a bank took 8 days to respond to an email. One fashion retailer answered a tweet about ethical sourcing policies in 17 minutes, yet another took 50 hours.

The importance of subject lines in email messages for marketing

The primary responsibility in email marketing is to create a subscriber list that helps to connect with the targeted audience willing to click on your emails. It is also your responsibility to improve the value of email communications. Email marketing success depends on two crucial factors. The first is composing the right kinds of email messages that catch the eye and appeals to the mind.