Outbound emails grow and are causing a rising security breach risk says report
Egress released its 2020 Outbound Email Data Breach Report, which highlights the true scale of data security risks related to email use. 93% of leaders surveyed said that their organisation had suffered data breaches through outbound email in the last 12 months.
Rising outbound email volumes due to COVID-19-related remote working and the digitization of manual processes are also contributing to escalating risk. 94% of respondents reported an increase in email traffic since the onset of COVID-19 and 70% believe that working remotely increases the risk of sensitive data being put at risk from outbound email data breaches.