Mimecast Unveils Breakthrough Human Risk Management Platform
17 Julio 2024 - 4:17AM
Mimecast, a global cybersecurity leader, has unveiled its Human
Risk Management (HRM) platform, marking an important and eagerly
anticipated milestone in advancing toward the next generation of
cybersecurity. In response to customer and market demand for a more
effective means of mitigating risk brought on by employee mistakes
and user errors, Mimecast has charted a new path forward by
developing a connected HRM platform. The platform will provide
unprecedented visibility into an organization’s risk profile,
scoring users by risk and allowing security teams to educate and
protect the riskiest part of their employee base.
Human Risk Management Platform: A Comprehensive Solution
to a Complex Problem
A small number of users tend to cause the majority of security
issues. But, to date, organizations have invested in disconnected
security point products, resulting in security professionals who
cannot differentiate risk across employees, and frustrated end
users who ignore continuous security warnings and bypass disparate
controls -- all of which ultimately increases both human and
organizational risk. Mimecast's connected HRM platform, which is
built on a central risk engine, is designed to prevent the evolving
and sophisticated threats targeting human error within
organizations. The new platform will offer preventative controls
and direct actions that will mitigate the risk associated with
human behavior such as an errant click of a link, the opening of a
malicious attachment or inadvertently sharing a document.
In an increasingly connected world, employees have access to a
myriad of collaboration tools and unlimited access to
organizational data, making them prime targets for complex attacks
such as business email compromise (BEC) and phishing, but also
makes them more prone to errors as they are constantly
multi-tasking and have multiple tools open at the same time.
Traditional security measures often fall short in addressing these
human-centric risks, leading to significant vulnerabilities.
"Our platform is centered around protecting organizations from
employee mistakes and user error, aligning key defense and data
controls to offer one of the most comprehensive approaches to human
risk management," said Mimecast CEO, Marc van Zadelhoff. "We
provide a single solution that brings together multiple
technologies – from Mimecast and dozens of partners – to help
organizations protect collaboration and engage employees in risk
mitigation."
Human Risk Dashboard: Unparalleled
Visibility
The HRM platform is engineered to include a unique human risk
dashboard, providing security teams with company-wide human risk
scoring and visibility based on event data from both native
Mimecast metrics as well as data from current and future
integrations with third party tools. In addition to increased
visibility at the organization-wide, group, and individual levels,
this dashboard is designed to also quantify attack factors
measuring the frequency and severity of inbound threats, with plans
to analyze inbound phishing attempts, blocked malware, malicious
web content loaded by visited websites, and more. With full
visibility into this data organizations can tailor security
strategies specifically, including awareness initiatives that
provide more training to those who need it and less to those who
don’t.
Mimecast Engage™: Transforming Security
Awareness
A key pillar to the platform is the company’s new human risk
awareness training offering, Mimecast Engage™, which is built to
redefine how security leaders can manage human risk. Traditional
security awareness programs take a standardized approach, rendering
IT leaders unable to identify high-risk employees or effectively
mitigate the risky behavior. Mimecast Engage technology, the result
of the integration of Elevate Security technology acquired in
December 2023 with Mimecast’s awareness training product, combines
to eliminate blind spots by offering extensive visibility into
employees' risky behaviors powered by the human risk dashboard and
adapting interventions to each individual's unique risk profile.
This approach also helps increase productivity as the lower risk
employees are interrupted far less with training tasks, enabling
them to focus on more critical business activities.
"Mimecast Engage awareness and training empowers security teams
to identify and reduce risky behavior with smarter, more targeted
training," said van Zadelhoff. "It leverages risk insights from the
Mimecast ecosystem and beyond to deliver contextual interventions
at the point of risk, helping to ensure a more secure
worksurface."
Key Benefits of the Human Risk Management
Platform:
- Visibility: The comprehensive human risk
dashboard spans the collaborative landscape, ensuring organizations
can keep up with and stay ahead of evolving threats.
- Insight: Leveraging two decades of focused
cybersecurity expertise, Mimecast’s HRM platform helps align cyber
and human risk for more detailed and actionable insights. CISOs and
security analysts can take these insights and make proper decisions
and deploy the right tactics to keep the organization secure.
- Action: Our unified, AI-powered platform is
engineered to ensure that threats can be detected and eliminated
promptly, allowing for precise and proactive decision-making.
Mimecast is pioneering human risk management. The HRM platform
and Mimecast Engage technology are the latest innovations in its
mission to advance security and transform the way organizations
manage and mitigate risk. By integrating security into the very
fabric of human interaction, the organization is setting a new
standard for protecting businesses in an increasingly complex
digital world.
For more information, visit Mimecast.com.
About Mimecast Mimecast is an AI-powered,
API-enabled connected human risk platform, purpose-built to protect
organizations from the spectrum of cyber threats. Integrating
cutting-edge technology with human-centric pathways, our platform
is engineered to enhance visibility and provide strategic insight
that enables decisive action and empowers businesses to protect
their collaborative environments, safeguard their critical data and
actively engage employees in reducing risk and enhancing
productivity. More than 42,000 businesses worldwide trust Mimecast
to help them keep ahead of the ever-evolving threat landscape. From
insider risk to external threats, with Mimecast customers get more.
More visibility. More insight. More agility. More security.
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