The Trend Micro Cloud App Security TM solution, an API-based solution that provides protection for various cloud-based applications and services, including Microsoft ® Office 365 TM Exchange TM Online, OneDrive ® for Business, SharePoint ® Online, Gmail, and Google Drive, was able to detect and block 12.7 million high-risk email threats.
The Trend Micro TM Smart Protection Network TM infrastructure blocked over 47 billion email threats in 2019, an increase of 14% from the previous year. In 2019, staple email-based threats such as business email compromise (BEC) and credential phishing remained prevalent, yet at the same time, the year saw threat actors employing new techniques and strategies in a bid to make their campaigns more effective.Īn overview of the email threat landscape Their increasing use in enterprise environments has led to cybercriminals targeting users in a variety of ways: from traditional social engineering techniques to the use of more sophisticated malware types, and even to the potential abuse of emerging technologies in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). However, as adoption rises, the threats to cloud platforms and services also grow in scale and complexity, and email services are prime targets. It’s no surprise that cloud-based business emails have seen a similar shift, especially as email accounts now serve as doors to a host of other file-hosting and collaboration tools. Cloud computing has been experiencing rapid growth and is expected to expand further in the near future - some estimates predict that the global cloud computing market would grow to more than double its 2018 value in a few years.
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