14.1 Million Reasons Your SEG And Email Security Tech Is Failing
KnowBe4, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
In the relentless growth of the phishing landscape, technical advances like AI have made attack methods two-pronged. They target technical weaknesses and use identity-based attacks to bypass defenses that land directly in end user inboxes.
If you are still relying solely on a traditional secure email gateway (SEG), you are gambling with a massive vulnerability window.
The Harsh Reality of the Tech Gap
New data from PhishER Plus reveals a startling trend: over an eight-month period in 2025, 22 leading email security platforms, including SEGs, missed an average of 37% of reported emails that were actually threats found and reported by end users.