This should come as no surprise, but email is the #1 attack vector used by cybercriminals. Do you know why? Because it works. Unsuspecting users are tricked every day into clicking malicious emails that make it to their inbox.
As a Google customer, you benefit from their security measures, like the Google email security controls which act as a secure email gateway (SEG) to stop threats. Google claims that “Gmail's cutting-edge AI defenses block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing attempts and malware.” But, like all technology solutions in use independently at the perimeter, it’s not perfect at stopping evolving new threats and still lets threats through to user inboxes.
How do we know?
Because every day our Phishing Defense Centre (PDC) sees thousands of threats that have bypassed SEG technology into our customer environments, several of which are Gmail clients. Luckily, Gmail customers have access to one-click threat reporting and our PDC team to provide a turnkey, managed service to analyse and remediate email threats before they pose a problem.
So, what sort of threats get through? And more importantly, what can you do about it?...read more!
