Fighting The Next Evolution Of Email Threats With Layered, AI-Driven Security
IT Security Guru, Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
For decades, email has been the backbone of corporate communications and for precisely this reason, it remains the attacker's preferred gateway into organisations. Phishing, Business Email Compromise (BEC), and supply chain attacks continue to increase, with adversaries using AI and compromised accounts to bypass classic protection mechanisms.
The rapid evolution of threats presents significant challenges for CISOs, IT Directors, and SOC teams, highlighting the inability of traditional email security to keep pace.
Attacks are getting smarter, not necessarily more complex
It is striking how much attacks have changed in the past year. On the one hand, the volume of phishing is noticeably increasing, especially in campaigns against finance departments, IT administrators, and executives. On the other hand, AI ensures that attacks appear more convincing: emails can be created in the style of internal communication, content is personalized and rolled out on a large scale - right up to context-aware phishing and multilingual BEC attempts.