While cyber threats appear to be getting more dangerous every day, the real cyber threat to businesses is still within their own organisations – employee mistakes and user error. That’s why we’re expanding our cybersecurity offering with two significant acquisitions to improve our Connected Human Risk Management Platform. The first acquisition was Code42, a leader in insider threat management and data loss prevention. The second was Aware, a leading AI collaboration security platform.

Mimecast customers will now have access to Code42's market-leading insider threat management and data loss prevention capabilities native to the cloud. This will enable Mimecast customers to seamlessly protect critical data from exposure, loss, leak and theft, while accelerating incident response times. In addition, Aware's AI-enabled solutions for content analysis and insights extends Mimecast's capabilities to manage human-generated data risks beyond email to collaboration platforms.

This announcement comes when businesses, especially small businesses, face increased threats from bad actors. According to our latest threat intelligence report, malicious links surged by 133% in the first quarter and 53% in the second quarter compared to the same period in 2023.

During the first half of the year, a prolific campaign targeting prominent Australian law firms used obfuscated URLs in email messages to send users to an intermediate page on one of several collaboration platforms, including Atlassian, Archbee, and Nuclino. Clicking on the link redirected victims to a fake login page for Microsoft Outlook to access credentials.

Expanding cybersecurity protection and focusing on human risk can help businesses of all sizes protect themselves from increasing sophisticated malicious actors.

What makes Mimecast unique

Integrating leading solutions like Code42 and Aware broadens and deepens our proven security and human risk management capabilities.

The acquisitions further enable businesses to gain comprehensive visibility and strategic insight across the expanding attack surface. It also marks a critical step in Mimecast’s strategy to revolutionise how organisations manage and mitigate human-centered security risks, expanding on the success of their existing technology partnership. By joining forces with Code42 and Aware, we can help customers with a comprehensive solution that addresses threats, data loss prevention, and response management across their expansive digital environments.

These two acquisitions are enhancements to our newly announced AI-powered, API-enabled connected Human Risk Management Platform. The platform, revealed in July of this year, provides 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 organisation-wide, group, and individual levels, this dashboard is designed to quantify attack factors measuring the frequency and severity of inbound threats. We further plan to have the dashboard analyse a range of human centric behaviours from across technology ecosystem such as a user’s susceptibility to clicking on links, browsing to malicious or blocked websites, attempting malware downloads or how they’re handling sensitive company data, just to name a few.

By integrating cutting-edge technology with human-centric behaviours, our platform enhances visibility and provides insight to ensure businesses can protect their collaborative environments, their data, and support employees in reducing cyber risks.

Learn more here.

By Ryan Economos, APAC Field CTO at Mimecast Sales Engineering