Ai-powered Enhancements For Email And Insider Risk Defences

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aipowered enhancements for email and insider risk defences

Mimecast, a global human risk management platform, has announced AI-powered enhancements across its product offerings advanced business email compromise BEC protection and content inspection for its Insider data protection solution .

Cyber risk is evolving at break-neck speed with a wide spectrum of threats organisations must combat. By deploying AI where it counts, Mimecast helps ensure businesses can keep ahead of attackers while safeguarding their critical IP. These two advancements spanning email security and insider threat management deploy natural language processing NLP to ensure businesses can keep ahead in the ever-expanding threat landscape.

Mimecast is no stranger to AI, said Sean Brady, SVP of product management at Mimecast. These new enhancements are a direct result of long-standing and measured integration of this powerful technology into our product suite. We have been securing inboxes for more than 20 years. Now we know what it takes to pair new-age technology with proven defence tactics.

BEC attacks remain one of the biggest threats faced by global organisations of all sizes. The tactic is used in 25 of all financially motivated attacks. As payload-less attacks become more sophisticated, companies need protection that continuously learns and adapts to effectively mitigate these threats. Utilising AI and NLP to correlate billions of signals to catch threats, Mimecasts advanced BEC protection is engineered to keep communications safe regardless of the attack all through one integrated platform.

This advancement is designed to keep pace with evolving threats, learning from communication patterns. It prevents sophisticated attacks by identifying unusual activity, building a social graph of user interaction and analysing semantic intent to determine the purpose of an email. By layering in the latest AI technology with Mimecasts proven defences, advanced BEC protection is built to provide encompassing threat detection.