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As enterprises shift to the cloud, many organizations are experiencing a disconnect mismatch between their legacy security architecture and the needs of their cloud email environment. Traditional SEGs are losing ground to the built-in email hygiene capabilities offered by cloud providers like Microsoft and Google as well as additional cloud-based ICES solutions.

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In the past two years, the prevalence of email-borne cyber threats—which was already high—soared to unprecedented levels. According to data from the FBI, both business email compromise (BEC) and ransomware attack volumes swelled to record highs, as did the number of reported phishing attacks.
BEC is a particularly expensive scourge. The FBI reported that losses attributable to business email compromise attacks increased by 65% from July 2019 to December 2021. Around the world, victims have incurred a total of more than $43 billion in exposed losses since 2016.
Gartner estimates that 70% of organizations had already adopted a cloud-based email solution by late 2021. As enterprises shift to the cloud, many are experiencing a mismatch between their legacy security architecture and the needs of their cloud email environment. Secure email gateways, in particular, were engineered for an on-premises world rather than today’s cloud email ecosystem.
Meanwhile, major cloud providers including Microsoft and Google have made considerable investments in improving the native capabilities of their offerings. Gartner predicts at least 40% of enterprises will use built-in capabilities from a cloud email provider in place of a SEG by 2023. That said, advanced features and controls are typically only available as an add-on or part of a higher-priced licensure tier from some vendors—and not at all from others. Further, these native security solutions tend to operate by blocking known threats, which means organizations that rely on these capabilities alone may remain vulnerable to never-before-detected threats or sophisticated social engineering and account compromise attacks.
Even as enterprises adopt more of cloud providers’ built-in email security capabilities, large numbers of email-borne attacks are still circumventing enterprise defenses. This reality makes it abundantly clear that it’s now essential to implement email security solutions that are more effective and efficient than those of the past. It also requires security teams to shift their mindset, away from a rules-and-policies-based approach to preventing attacks, and toward a reliance on human and behavioral analysis. Increasingly, this will mean turning to email security solutions that were designed for a cloud-first world. Integrated cloud email security (ICES) is an emerging market category that was first described by Gartner in 2021. ICES products are cloud-native solutions that analyze email content via API connectivity so that there’s no need to change the MX records. These platforms leverage technologies like natural language processing (NLP) and behavioral artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and block the malicious emails that legacy solutions miss. To combat tomorrow’s increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, enterprises will need this sort of innovation–either in addition to, or in place of, their current tools.

In enterprise security operations, the persistent talent shortage is a perennial challenge. With an estimated 2.72 million unfilled cybersecurity positions worldwide, security leaders continue to feel the impact of the scarcity of skilled professionals. According to the (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, 30% of security leaders say there’s not enough time to properly assess and manage risks, and 27% believe they’re not able to keep tabs on all the active threats against their employees and network.
Naturally, the skills shortage impacts email security as well. When management capabilities are fragmented across multiple dashboards and there’s a need for extensive tuning and technically complex maintenance, the challenges often compound themselves. Today’s email security teams have a pressing need for solutions that are effective against modern threats as well as simple to control and administer.
Automation can help here. In particular, it can save time by applying machine learning (ML) to processes like investigating and remediating the contents of the abuse mailbox or by making it so that there are fewer manual policies and detection rules to write or update. Of course, these capabilities will also benefit end users, who currently waste time and experience frustration when their organization’s inbox management solution doesn’t work as well as it should.

We conducted this survey in order to understand the challenges and opportunities that today’s enterprise email security teams face. We wanted to know whether security leaders and practitioners understand the severity of the threats they currently confront, as well as investigate what they’re doing to stop them. We also wanted to see how effective (or ineffective) current email security solutions are, and glean additional insight into how leaders are thinking about evolving their email security strategy for the future.
In a world where the time and expertise of security professionals will remain in short supply, where the migration of email to the cloud will continue or accelerate, and where ransomware attacks, business email compromise scams, and other advanced email-borne threats will persist, it’s essential to adopt a multi-layered approach—one that’s suited to modern IT ecosystems and architectures. To get ahead of increasingly sophisticated attacks, it will also be necessary to harness technologies like natural language processing and artificial intelligence to increase efficiency, all while centralizing visibility and control to stay ahead of evolving attacks.
For many organizations, this will mean replacing the legacy SEG with a combination of modern cloud solutions. Adding the capabilities of an integrated cloud email security (ICES) solution to cloud vendor-supplied native features may be the optimal approach. This can improve detection accuracy and ease the administrative burden while simplifying processes within attack triage and response to keep the organization safe.

With the number of impersonation-based attacks like BEC and attacks from compromised accounts still increasing, email security strategies must advance beyond the reactive blocking of known threats. Instead, security leaders should look to innovative emerging solutions that use AI to analyze communication patterns in order to detect conversational anomalies (like an unsolicited request for a wire transfer) within email content. Advanced solutions might also leverage computer vision to inspect suspicious URLs or natural language processing to discover messages written with an unusual tone of urgency. For example, a request to pay a past-due invoice immediately, despite the fact that the invoice contains new and different bank details.
Because these hard-to-detect threats continue to proliferate, security awareness training for employees remains a valuable investment. Some advanced email security products include context-aware banners that help users remember the finer points of their anti-phishing training. It’s also vital to implement standard operating procedures for handling financial transactions since these processes are often the target of impersonation attacks. Employees should be discouraged from acting on impulse—or relying on ad-hoc processes—when responding to an email.
Furthermore, integrations are key for simplifying management while enhancing efficacy and visibility. An ICES solution that relies on direct API access to the cloud email provider to analyze email content will be much easier to implement than one that requires the mail exchange (MX) record be changed or email servers be reconfigured. APIs can also serve to integrate the email solution into a broader extended detection and response (XDR) ecosystem or with security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, analytics, and reporting (SOAR) solutions. These integrations enable defenders to perform comprehensive threat analysis and identify the role email plays within attack sequences, as well as create custom email notification or ticket-generation workflows.

As enterprises move their email systems into the cloud, implementing automation to increase efficiencies and support the modern workforce is increasingly important. But how many of today’s security leaders and practitioners recognize this fact? This survey explores how email security strategies are being adapted for modern computing environments, and what’s still needed to mitigate risk.

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