Catching threats with certainty The insurance industry is under attack: three of the sector’s biggest breaches in the last few years were estimated to have exposed the data from as many as 100 million policy holders. One of the biggest insurance companies in the world—a 100-year veteran of the industry with a major presence throughout Asia—reviewed its attack vectors and realized malware-laden emails were slipping through its defenses. The company maintains 4,000 email accounts, many used for customer-related interactions and transactions. A senior IT security manager for the company described, “Our customer-facing accounts—especially the aliases listed on the website—were getting bombarded with hundreds of malicious emails and a lot of those with attached malware were getting

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