| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.06.2026 | Shadow AI Cybersecurity Risk Spikes as 45% of Workers Use Unsanctioned Tools | By Mitesh Patel Executive Column
Published: Jun 15 2026, 20:05 PM EDT
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| 05.05.2026 | Your biggest cyber threat is now sitting at the desk next to you | The author, Mimecast’s Heino Gevers
Your employees are being headhunted — not for jobs, but for your data.
South Africa have experienced a 46% increase in insider cyber risk in 2026 compared to 2025, according to Mimecast’s State of Human R... |
| 09.04.2026 | Nearly 18% of business emails fail to reach inboxes | - |
| 08.04.2026 | Business services platform SILA raises $100M from Permira | Real-estate focused business services platform SILA has raised $100 million from global private equity firm Permira.
The investment will support SILA’s expansion across India as it strengthens its technology capabilities, expands adjacent s... |
| 06.03.2026 | Negligence Stirring Rise in Cyber Incidents | Two fifths (42%) of organisations reported an increase in malicious insider incidents over the past year, with the same amount reporting a rise in negligent incidents for the first time.
This is according to Mimecast’s State of Human Risk R... |
| 05.03.2026 | Malicious insider threats surging in South Africa, new study finds | South African organisations are reporting higher rates of malicious insider activity than the global average, with nearly half saying deliberate data theft by employees has increased over the past year, according to Mimecast’s latest State ... |
| 23.02.2026 | Human Error Costing UK Business Billions in Data Breach Losses | Companies may be pouring millions into cutting‑edge, AI‑focused security, but a fresh warning from Workflo Solutions suggests they may be focusing on the wrong threat, with human error still the most exploited vulnerability for many busines... |
| 17.02.2026 | Glasgow Scaleup Willo Recruits Tech Veteran as VP of Partnerships | Glasgow-founded scaleup Willo has appointed Jim Berrisford as its new vice president of partnerships to kick off what co-founder Euan Cameron described as ‘a pivotal year’ for the recruitment tech firm.
Berrisford joins Willo with over twen... |
| 16.02.2026 | South African CISOs are facing a burnout epidemic | South African chief information security officers are operating in a perfect storm. Machine-driven attacks, chronically limited budgets and a critical lack of cybersecurity professionals are combining to create an environment where burnout ... |
| 07.01.2026 | Integrity360 expands to North America with Advantus360 acquisition | Irish cybersecurity firm Integrity360 has established a foothold in North America with the acquisition of Canada's Advantus360. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded in 2015, Advantus360 is a highly respected cybersecurity services ... |
| 24.11.2025 | Blast Security: $10 Million Seed Round Raised To Launch Preemptive Cloud Defense Platform | Blast Security has emerged from stealth with a $10 million seed round, introducing a preventive approach to cloud risk mitigation that aims to replace the industry’s longstanding reliance on reactive detection. The round was co-led by 10D a... |
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| 12.10.2025 | Scotland's Tech Ascent: Billions Power AI, Innovation, and Global Reach | Scotland stands as a burgeoning tech superpower. Billions pour into AI infrastructure, establishing Europe's largest supercomputing hubs. This investment fuels sustainable data centers and drives innovation across sectors. Firms develop cru... |
| 07.10.2025 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | September 2025 | Welcome to the September 2025 edition of the DIGIT Deal Roundup.
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| 29.09.2025 | Willo lands £3M to tackle AI-made job apps with a ‘blue tick’ for credentials | Willo, the Glasgow-based recruitment technology platform, has secured £3 million from Mimecast co-founder Peter Bauer to accelerate tools that help employers automatically verify candidate credentials amid a surge in AI-generated job applic... |
| 29.09.2025 | Willo Raises £3M To Boost US Expansion and AI Tool | Glasgow-based AI recruitment technology firm Willo has gained £3 million in investment from the founder of Mimecast, the cybersecurity firm.
The latest investment from Peter Bauer amounts to the largest single investment in Willo – the scal... |
| 24.09.2025 | Duel: $16 Million Raised To Transform Brand Advocacy | Duel, a pioneering Brand Advocacy platform, has secured $16 million in a Series A funding round. This significant investment is set to further its mission of helping prominent retail brands, including well-known names such as Lush, ELEMIS, ... |
| 24.09.2025 | Duel Raises $16M in Series A Funding | Duel, a NYC-based provider of a brand advocacy platform, raised $16M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Molten Ventures and Bright Pixel, alongside existing investor Peter Bauer, founder of Mimecast.
The company intends to use the fu... |
| 23.09.2025 | Brand Advocacy Platform, Duel, Raises $16M in Series A | Duel, the leading Brand Advocacy platform helping leading retail brands including Lush, ELEMIS, Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch grow through their own fan and creator communities instead of traditional advertising, has raised ... |
| 16.09.2025 | South Africa: Cybersecurity Training Needs Urgent Overhaul | As the nature and complexity of cyber threats rapidly evolves, companies have realised that they must look beyond purely tech solutions and equip their employees with the skills to safeguard the business against attack. However, Mimecast ha... |
| 13.08.2025 | New Phishing Campaign Targets UK Visa Sponsor Licence Holders | UK visa sponsor licence holders are being targeted in a new phishing campaign which uses Home Office branding.
Specifically, organisations that hold a UK visa sponsor licence and partake in the government’s Sponsorship Management System (SM... |
| 30.07.2025 | Shadow AI adds $670K to breach costs while 97% of enterprises skip basic access controls, IBM reports | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now
Shadow AI is the $670,000 problem most organizations don’t even know they have.
IBM... |
| 08.07.2025 | Mimecast creates solution with Google Workspace to enhance data governance and compliance across collaboration tools | Mimecast creates solution with Google Workspace to enhance data governance and compliance across collaboration tools
Mimecast, a U.K.-headquartered global cybersecurity leader, announced a new solution with Google Workspace to enhance gover... |
| 30.04.2025 | Avoiding the security blame game with artificial intelligence | Presented by Elastic
95% of cyber security breaches are caused by human error: headaches like insider threats, credential misuse and human missteps. Even the most rigorous, experienced security professionals can overlook a step among the er... |
| 04.04.2025 | Cisco: Fine-tuned LLMs are now threat multipliers—22x more likely to go rogue | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Weaponized large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned with offensive tradecraft are reshaping cyberattacks, forcing ... |
| 26.03.2025 | Croatian-founded SplxAI Closes €6.5M Seed Round Led by Bulgarian LAUNCHub Ventures | Zagreb, Croatia, USA ~
Company:
Croatian-founded SplxAI, a company specializing in cybersecurity for AI chatbots, today announced it has closed $7 million (€6.49 million) in seed funding, led by LAUNCHub Ventures and with participation from... |
| 20.12.2024 | The Evolving Landscape of Cybersecurity Threats | In the digital age, the battlefield is invisible. Cybersecurity threats lurk in the shadows, evolving with each passing day. Recent reports highlight a troubling trend: phishing attacks are becoming more sophisticated. They’re no longer the... |
| 18.12.2024 | Threat actors spoof email security providers | A new report from phishing defense company Cofense highlights increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks that are exploiting trusted email security companies such as Proofpoint, Mimecast and Virtru to trick users into disclosing sensitive ... |
| 13.12.2024 | The New Frontier of Email Security: Navigating the Evolving Threat Landscape | In the digital age, email is the highway for cybercriminals. It’s where 80-90% of cyberattacks begin. Despite advancements in technology, many businesses cling to outdated email security measures. This is a recipe for disaster. The landscap... |
| 10.12.2024 | Email security: Why traditional defenses fall short in today's threat landscape | Despite decades of technological advancement, email remains the predominant attack vector for cybercriminals, with estimates suggesting that 80-90 percent of cyberattacks originate through email channels. While the cybersecurity industry ha... |
| 04.12.2024 | System Two Security raises $7M to automate detection engineering with AI
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One click below supports our mission to provide ... | System Two Security Inc., a startup helping companies detect cyberattacks more efficiently, today announced that it has raised $7 million in funding.
Costanoa Ventures led the round. It was joined by Runtime Ventures, The Hive, Webb Investm... |
| 11.11.2024 | NAPAfrica tops 4.5Tbit/s in peering traffic | A Teraco data centre in Brackenfell in Cape Town
South Africa’s largest internet exchange point (IXP), NAPAfrica, is now the seventh largest such facility globally, having topped 4.5Tbit/s in peering traffic.
NAPAfrica, which is owned and o... |
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It’s said that data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. While that’s certainly true, it’s also true that there is perhaps no industry as dependent on data – and protecting it – as the... |
| 27.09.2024 | Australian Organisations Targeted by Phishing Attacks Disguised as Atlassian | Enterprises across Australia and the APAC region have been warned that cyber criminals are exploiting popular platforms like Atlassian to launch more convincing phishing attacks on law firms and other corporations. These attacks aim to stea... |
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| 12.09.2024 | Scots Recruitment Software Firm Willo Secures £1.8M in Latest Round | Willo, the Scottish recruitment technology platform, has secured £1.8 million investment in its latest round, including backing from the US founder of global email security giant Mimecast.
Investor and Mimecast founder Peter Bauer has commi... |
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The round was led by investors including Inovo.vc, South Central Ventures, and Runtime Ventures – as well as angels ... |
| 10.09.2024 | Croatia’s SplxAI Raises €1.8M to Enhance AI Chatbot Security Amid Growing Cyber Threats | Split, Croatia ~
Company:
In a Nutshell:
The AI security startup raised €1.8 million from investors including Inovo.vc, South Central Ventures, and Runtime Ventures to develop its platform that protects AI chatbots from emerging cyber threa... |
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More than two-thirds believe employees are putting the organi... |
| 13.03.2024 | New Mimecast report finds cybercriminals capitalize on businesses’ biggest flaw: Human risk | - |
| 11.03.2024 | The Radicati Group Releases “Information Archiving – Market Quadrant, 2024” | A competitive analysis of the market for Information Archiving Services revealing Top Players, Mature Players, Specialists, and Trail Blazers
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| 17.01.2024 | New CEO for Mimecast as Peter Bauer steps down after 21 years | Mimecast co-founder Peter Bauer is stepping down as CEO
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“I’ve l... |
| 08.01.2024 | Mimecast Announces Acquisition of Elevate Security, Strengthens Commitment to Managing Human Risk | Mimecast Limited (Mimecast), an advanced email and collaboration security company announced its acquisition of Elevate Security, a provider of human risk management solutions. The acquisition strengthens Mimecast’s offerings by providing pr... |
| 06.01.2024 | Mimecast Acquires Elevate Security | Mimecast, a Lexington, MA-based email and collaboration security company, acquired Elevate Security, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of human risk management solutions.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The acquisition strengthen... |
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| 09.02.2023 | AI Cyber Solutions Positioning To Better Secure Web3 | AI, Artificial Intelligence concept, Circuit board.getty |
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| 26.10.2022 | Ransomware Impacts Mental Health More Than You May Think | New data has found that around two thirds of professionals working in cybersecurity have their mental health impacted by ransomware.
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| 26.10.2022 | Taking Proactive Steps To Mitigate The Global Ransomware Pandemic | By David Raissipour, Mimecast Chief Technology & Product Officer. |
| 18.10.2022 | SAPO warns of business e-mail compromise scam | The South African Post Office (SAPO) is warning customers of a business e-mail compromise (BEC) scam requesting them to make online payments for fictitious parcels.
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| 24.05.2022 | NEC XON, Mimecast partner for SADC’s best e-mail security | From left: Kevin Smith, Head of Cyber Security at NEC XON and Collin Kunene, Channel Director at Mimecast South Africa.
NEC XON has partnered with Mimecast to complete its turnkey cyber security offering to South African organisations with ... |
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| 22.03.2022 | How to secure your email via encryption, password management and more | Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto/Balefire9
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| 17.03.2022 | Fortifying Your Last Line Of Defense—Your Employees | Stu Sjouwerman is the Founder and CEO of KnowBe4 Inc., a security awareness training and simulated phishing platform. |
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| 04.02.2022 | Mimecast Announces Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results | LEXINGTON, Mass., Feb. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email security and cyber resilience company, today announced financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2021.
Third Quarte... |
| 04.02.2022 | Episode 11, Season 2 of Phishy Business: Recovering from a cyberattack, openness, snacks and memory sticks | This week, we speak to one of the most well-known leaders in the tech sector, Adam Banks. Adam is the former Group CTO & CISO at A.P Moller Maersk and lead the recovery from the most expensive cyberattack in history. We discuss what hap... |
| 02.02.2022 | Mimecast : For Security Awareness Training That Sticks, Remember Your ABCs | If being aware of bad behaviors effectively stopped them, then there would be no intoxicated drivers, smokers or people eating unhealthy foods. Year after year, industry surveys reveal that human error provides the primary point of entry fo... |
| 31.01.2022 | Mimecast : What Are Malicious Websites? | Cybercriminals work hard to exploit vulnerabilities and trick people into divulging personal information. One method they use - creating malicious websites - has become widespread. In January 2021, for example, Google counted over 2 million... |
| 28.01.2022 | Episode 10, Season 2 of Phishy Business: Workhorses, kidnappings, and ransomware | In this episode we speak to Marc Brandner, partner at SmartRiskSolutions, a risk and crisis management consultancy. He served as an officer of the German Special Forces (KSK) in various command assignments in Germany and abroad. He now supp... |
| 25.01.2022 | APIs at Work: Real Experience, From the Trenches | If you're responsible for a mission-critical IT, communications or security environment, why should you care about APIs? I found many reasons to care when my job involved providing email services for some 50,000 employees worldwide across m... |
| 24.01.2022 | Mimecast : Laws Pending on Reporting and Paying Ransomware in 2022 | U.S. policymakers latched onto the idea of ransomware reporting requirements as a step they could achieve amid what seemed like an unstoppable ransomware crime wave in 2021. Legislators see reporting as necessary to protect national securit... |
| 20.01.2022 | Mimecast : Biden Aims to Drive Zero-Trust Architecture Nationwide | The Biden administration has begun defining a zero-trust architecture for the U.S. government's cybersecurity systems and day-to-day operations. Its ambitions for zero trust as a cyber defense reach beyond this already bold goal, deep into ... |
| 18.01.2022 | Mimecast : Cybersecurity Awareness Training Results in Greater Employee Engagement | An Osterman Research paper, Assessing Organizational Readiness to Deal with Increased Employee Cyber Awareness, examines the effectiveness of cybersecurity awareness training and how email is evaluated as potentially suspicious, both by emp... |
| 14.01.2022 | Mimecast : Using NIST's Phish Scale to Optimize Employee Training | Running effective phishing training campaigns can be challenging. On one hand you want training to be effective and realistic, but on the other hand you don't want to overwhelm users. Fortunately, the National Institute of Standards and Tec... |
| 13.01.2022 | Mimecast : Teaching Good Security Behaviors with Seinfeld | A recent survey of security awareness training programs found that users view the content as overwhelmingly tedious. "Get a red-hot poker and open up my eyes, it's so boring" was one of the more expressive remarks made by responde... |
| 11.01.2022 | Mimecast : Brand Exploitation Is a Bigger Issue Than It Seems | A U.S.-based regional bank didn't know that they had a brand exploitation problem until they started monitoring. The result: They were surprised when they found themselves identifying and neutralizing an average of 10-to-15 brand impersonat... |
| 05.01.2022 | For CISOs: Ransomware Gets Personal | With ransomware on the rise, many security professionals feel less secure in their jobs, according to Mimecast's new State of Ransomware Readiness 2021 report, conducted by Hanover Research. The global survey surfaced the sentiments of 742 ... |
| 04.01.2022 | Mimecast : Does the Great Resignation Mean Resigning to Less Cybersecurity? | The pandemic demonstrated how organizations quickly adapted to remote working. In what the media has dubbed "the Great Resignation," workers also quickly adapted, so much so that they see remote working as a new opportunity rather... |
| 28.12.2021 | Mimecast : What Is XDR (Extended Detection and Response)? | Remote/hybrid work and other trends are widening attack surfaces at the same time threat actors are becoming more sophisticated and aggressive. Traditional approaches to defense have proven insufficiently agile or intelligent. As threats gr... |
| 27.12.2021 | Mimecast The Rise Of Ransomware During The COVID-19 Pandemic | It’s no secret ransomware attacks are on the rise. In the last decade, cybercrime has grown as a sizable threat to corporate and national security. Ransomware attacks, especially, skyrocketed in the last two years alone. This increase is du... |
| 23.12.2021 | Mimecast: The Rise of Ransomware During the COVID-19 Pandemic | NEW YORK, Dec. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- It's no secret ransomware attacks are on the rise. In the last decade, cybercrime has grown as a sizable threat to corporate and national security. Ransomware attacks, especially, skyrocketed in t... |
| 20.12.2021 | Mimecast : State CIOs Rank Security as No. 1 Priority for 9th Year | State governments have a lot on their plates - especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet what preoccupies state CIOs the most is cybersecurity, according to the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). In f... |
| 16.12.2021 | Mimecast : SEC Ratcheting Up Cybersecurity Requirements | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is poised to issue a new, tougher rule on how companies handle and report cyberattacks and internal controls against them. The move, which reflects one of the commission's top priorities, is... |
| 15.12.2021 | Episode 7, Season 2 of Phishy Business: Your Online Brand Should Be Covered | This week we speak with Mike Sharman, the owner and co-founder of Retroviral Digital Communications and RetroActive Digital, and the author of the best-selling book, The Best Dick: A Candid Account of Building a $1m Business. We discuss the... |
| 13.12.2021 | Mimecast : Email + Web Security Gaps = Ransomware Risk | If a genie walked up to a company's cybersecurity team and offered to grant two wishes, the first request would probably be to eliminate all phishing emails. Then the team would ask that employees be magically and permanently protected when... |
| 09.12.2021 | Government Cybersecurity: Forces Align to Fix K-12 Schools' Cybersecurity Problem | Key Points:
President Joe Biden recently signed the K-12 Cybersecurity Act into law, as cyberattacks on schools reach a new high.
Biden's move comes amid a flurry of calls for solutions ranging from K-12 cybersecurity standards to funding f... |
| 07.12.2021 | Permira plans to take email security firm Mimecast private in a $5.8B all-cash deal | Nine months after competitor Proofpoint was scooped up by Thoma Bravo for $12.3 billion, Mimecast is also going the private equity route. Today the security company announced that Permira would be taking Mimecast private in a $5.8 billion a... |
| 07.12.2021 | Mimecast : to Become a Private Company through Transaction with Permira Valued at Approximately $5.8 Billion - Form 8-K | Mimecast to Become a Private Company through Transaction with Permira Valued at Approximately $5.8 Billion
LEXINGTON, Mass. - December 7, 2021 - Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email security and cyber resilience company, today a... |
| 07.12.2021 | FBI: ‘Scampages' Raise Stakes for Email Security, Brand Protection | Together with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI released a public service announcement (PSA) last week cautioning businesses and consumers to beware of a rampage of fake websites (scampages) and related phis... |
