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Why outbound email is your organization's biggest security risk

January 18, 2021

On average, organization experience 180 incidents involving sensitive data, or one every 12 working hours, according to Egress. The three top causes of outbound email data breaches include: the wrong recipient added, wrong file attached or replying to a phishing scam. 

What impact do these breaches have? Well, according to research from Egress, 1/3 of companies face financial repercussions, 1/4 suffered reputational damage, and1/4 of companies were investigated by regulators. 

See more impact of outbound email data breaches and its risk with the infographics below:

 

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