{"id":4053,"date":"2024-09-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=4053"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T02:00:53","slug":"opswat-email-security","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/portfolio\/opswat-email-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Security Threats Against Critical Infrastructure Organizations &#8211; commissioned by OPSWAT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Commissioned by <strong>OPSWAT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Released <strong>September 2024<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Executive summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizations in critical infrastructure sectors operate under heightened warnings of cyberattack due to their control of physical infrastructure that wreaks havoc on economic, financial, and health systems when compromised. While warning levels are increasingly high, efficacy at protecting the most common attack vector\u2014 email\u2014is low. Most organizations have been breached in the past 12 months (multiple times), half lack confidence in their current protections, and most know their approach is not best in class. With the level of threat posed by email attacks expected to increase over the next 12 months, critical infrastructure organizations intent on strengthening their email security posture must take a dramatic approach that emphasizes prevention and preclusion of email-borne threats. The data in this survey is drawn from a global audience of organizations in critical infrastructure sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-vivid-purple-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opswat.com\/osterman-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download from OPSWAT<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical infrastructure organizations are under a constant threat of breaches caused by cybercriminals and nation-state actors. The data in this survey is drawn from a global audience of organizations in critical infrastructure sectors. Commissioned by OPSWAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384585,"featured_media":4067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"jetpack-portfolio-type":[712027439],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[712027441,712027450],"class_list":["post-4053","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jetpack-portfolio-type-commissioned-research","jetpack-portfolio-tag-cybersecurity","jetpack-portfolio-tag-email-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/4053\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-type?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-tag?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}