For over a decade, a quantitative index hosted at NYU’s Center for Cyber Security (CCS) has been used to measure the sentiment of expert practitioners across a range of cyber threat and enterprise security issues. While the index value has increased continually over the years, which indicates growing concern among the participating experts that threats are increasing, significant spikes in any measured attribute have rarely occurred – until recently.
Since early 2020, the NYU research team has measured increased concerns regarding email security risk, and, in particular, with phishing messages reaching user in-boxes. This result might seem somewhat expected, given the increased number of people working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. But enterprise teams routinely include world-class commercial security solutions such as secure email gateways (SEGs), so this seemed inconsistent with the sentiment spike. ...read more!
