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 of an organisations risk profile, scoring users by risk and allowing security teams to educate and protect the riskiest part of their employee base.
A comprehensive solution to a complex problem
A small number of users tend to cause most security issues. But, to date, organisations 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 increase human and organisational risk. Mimecasts connected HRM platform, which is built on a central risk engine, is designed to prevent the evolving and sophisticated threats targeting human error within organisations. The new platform will offer preventative controls and direct actions that will mitigate the risk associated with human behaviour 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 organisational data, which makes them prime targets for complex attacks, such as business email compromise and phishing, and 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 centred around protecting organisations from employee mistakes and user errors, aligning key defence and data controls to offer one of the most comprehensive approaches to HRM, said Mimecast Chief Executive Officer, Marc van Zadelhoff. We provide a single solution that brings together multiple technologies from Mimecast and dozens of partners to help organisations protect collaboration and engage employees in risk mitigation.
