Security News > 2020 > January > Email security industry miss rates when encountering threats are higher than 20%

Email security miss rates are definitely a huge issue.

BitDam conducted an empirical study to measure leading email security products' ability to detect unknown threats at first encounter.

The study employs the retrieval of fresh samples of malicious files from various feeds and sources, qualifying them as unknown threats, and sending them to mailboxes protected by leading email security products.

"Mind the gap! is as relevant to CISOs as it is to riders on the London Underground. The time gap between malware delivery and subsequent detection by the industry's most widely used endpoint protection suites solutions is shockingly long - in practice long enough to be useless. The study pinpoints this unacceptable gap in detection time, showing that organizations are exposed to cyberthreats for many hours, or even days, before their email security identifies these as malware," said Simon Crosby, CTO, SWIM.AI. Most threat detection technologies fail to provide protection against unknown threats.

"It was this thought process that was behind our study to find the most common shortcomings of email security products on the market today, so we could respond with meaningful industry knowledge and of course, provide a solution. The detection miss rate levels were higher and more alarming than we had anticipated. Our study is a call to action for solution providers to do more, and for enterprises to enrich their arsenal with solutions like BitDam's to detect the malware that slip through their current email security," Barak concluded.

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