How you can prevent data loss and maintain compliance in your email system

Egress 09.04 How you can prevent data loss

80% of data exists in unstructured format - in the emails, attachments and documents we work with daily. This opens the door to significant risks, particularly as employees use email to send and receive sensitive information.

Egress 09.04 How you can prevent data loss

On-Demand Webinar Summary:

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s own trends show that data exposed to unauthorised access has been the top cause of reported security incidents in 2020, and recent research into this problem shows that the average organisation experiences an email data breach every 12 working hours. This problem is only growing, with an even greater reliance on email by employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hear from Tony Pepper, CEO, Egress and Kathryn Cardose, Head of Cyber Operations at Virgin Money as they discuss the risks that enterprises face from email, and the strategies you should be taking to prevent security incidents.

Key takeaways:

  • How to identify and map the operational and other risks in your organisation, especially those linked to email use
  • What are the threats and what has been the impact of COVID-19 and remote working on email security
  • Key considerations for remediating risks to unstructured data, including technological controls