Email security incident
Cybersecurity statistics about email security incident
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83% of UK IT leaders report suffering at least one email-related security incident.
86% of US IT leaders indicate that more than half of their business communication flows through email.
47% of IT leaders based in Australia cite managing external threats (such as phishing and spoofing) as their top security challenge.
38% of UK IT leaders cited AI-driven threat detection as the most common defence against email-related incidents.
36% on average (over a third) of all security incidents reported by IT leaders are email-driven.
46% of UK IT leaders cited email filtering as the most common defence against email-related incidents.
27% of UK IT leaders in the public sector say they've adopted email security training.
63% of UK IT leaders in the tech sector say they've adopted email filtering.
41% of UK IT leaders cited multi-factor authentication (MFA) as the most common defence against email-related incidents.
47% of UK IT leaders cited employee security awareness training as the most common defence against email-related incidents.
44% of UK IT leaders in the public sector say they've adopted MFA.
64% of US IT leaders want to automate parts of their email infrastructure, but only 17% say they are fully prepared to implement automation.
Professionals in high-email-volume sectors like legal and finance send 20-30+ emails daily.
Nearly half (49%) of UK IT leaders report being hit by an email-related security incident in the past 12 months alone.
75% of UK IT leaders in the tech sector faced inbox breaches.
52% of all organisational communication in the UK flows through the inbox.
87% of UK IT leaders in the finance sector report exposure to email-related incidents.
85% of UK IT leaders in the legal sector report exposure to email-related incidents.
60% of organizations in the legal sector experienced email incidents, yet only 41% feel very confident in their compliance posture.
59% of organizations in the technology sector experienced email incidents, yet only 39% feel very confident in their compliance posture.