Security News > 2021 > May > Microsoft 365 email data breaches take center stage amid WFH in a new report
On Wednesday, software company Egress released a report titled "Outbound email: Microsoft 365's security blind spot" highlighting email data breaches and IT frustrations during the coronavirus pandemic.
"We can't ignore the risk of email data loss from Microsoft 365 and the limitations of static DLP solutions to mitigate the outbound email security risks that organizations face today."
Over the last year, the vast majority of organizations that use Microsoft 365 have experienced an email data breach, according to data security company Egress.
After an email data breach, the vast majority of organizations using Microsoft 365 reported "Suffering negative impacts," compared to 84% of non-Microsoft 365 users, according to Egress.
In the last 12 months, only 4% of companies not using Microsoft 365 experienced more than 500 data breaches compared to 15% of companies using Microsoft 365.
Accidental information leaks related to employees inadvertently sending emails are also more common for Microsoft 365 users, according to Egress, with 14% of non-Microsoft 365 users reporting "Incidents caused by an employee sharing data in error via email" compared to 26% of Microsoft 365 users.