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95% of respondents with a budget shortfall, were agreeing that their

organization’s cyber resilience has been impaired as a result



For more than a decade, users have been utilizing cloud-based email solutions, and ignoring the adoption of supporting security controls such as 2FA/MFA, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and user-awareness training. It often takes a security breach for businesses to make a budget available for security enhancements. Privacy regulations have driven the need for DLP.



In Mimecast sixth annual State of Email Security Report 2022 IT decision-makers shed light on three main elements:

The cybersecurity challenges they continue to face such as phishing and ransomware

The gains in cyber resilience that can come via new technology implementations

External forces that impact their businesses such as budget increases or government mandates.

Read the full report here: https://info.mimecast.com/SOESRSA22_Report.html

Happy Heritage Day to all our staff and customers, we hope you have a wonderful day celebrating all the unique and beautiful cultures this country has to offer.

We are very proud to announce First Technology has been awarded the Microsoft Advanced Specialization Team Work award as well as the Microsoft Advanced Specialization Adoption and Change Management award. Well done to everyone that worked so hard towards this!