Security leaders face a persistent challenge: demonstrating the tangible value of cybersecurity investments to executive leadership and boards. While threat detection numbers pile up in dashboards, translating those statistics into meaningful impact remains complex.
We’re excited to announce the Mimecast Human Risk Insights Report, which transforms this challenge into an opportunity, delivering clear visibility into how your organization's human risk management efforts protect against evolving threats. The report provides comprehensive insight into how Mimecast protects your organization while helping reduce human risks.
Your monthly report covers threat protection analysis, regional and industry benchmarking, historical trend analysis, human risk scoring, and detailed risk insights. This combination gives security teams the complete picture needed for both operational decisions and strategic planning.
Threat Protection: See Exactly What You're Stopping
Understanding your threat landscape starts with knowing what attacks target your organization and how effectively your defenses respond. The report breaks down detection data by specific attack types including phishing, business email compromise, credential harvesting, ransomware, and malicious QR codes.
Each threat category includes detection counts and leverages publicly available cost data to quantify the financial impact of prevented attacks. For security analysts managing daily operations, this granular view helps prioritize response efforts and identify emerging patterns. For security leaders, it provides concrete evidence of protection value when discussing budget allocations or security strategy with executives.
Benchmarking: Know Where You Stand
Understanding your position compared to industry peers provides critical context. The report positions your organization's detection rates against anonymized data from other Mimecast customers, segmented by geography and industry vertical.
Historical Analysis: Spot Trends Before They Become Problems
The report includes 12 months of historical detection data, including monthly snapshots and trend analysis to reveal patterns that drive strategic decisions. This visibility allows security teams to identify seasonal variations, emerging threat types, and the effectiveness of implemented countermeasures.
Security analysts can use this trending data to predict resource needs and adjust monitoring priorities, and security managers can demonstrate program maturity and improvement over time, identifying areas requiring additional attention or investment.
Human Risk Scoring: Quantify Your Most Challenging Security Element
People remain both organizations' greatest asset and their most significant vulnerability. The Human Risk Score provides a composite assessment ranging from 0 to 10, with 0 representing very low risk and 10 indicating very high risk. This score incorporates data from connected Mimecast solutions, creating an organizational risk baseline that updates monthly.
The scoring methodology considers multiple categories of user interactions with potential security risks. Events contributing to these categories come from your deployed Mimecast solutions and integration data, ensuring the score reflects your actual environment rather than theoretical assessments. Security teams can track score improvements following training initiatives, policy changes, or technology deployments.
Risk Behavior Analysis: Understanding Human Actions
Beyond detection statistics, the report analyzes actual human risk behaviors including real-world phishing encounters, simulated phishing responses, malware interactions, and sensitive data handling practices. This behavioral analysis helps security teams understand not just what threatens their organization, but how their users respond to those threats.
Security awareness program owners can use this data to tailor training content and delivery methods. Security managers can identify departments or user groups requiring additional support, while security leaders can demonstrate the human element's impact on overall organizational risk.
Identifying Your Riskiest Users
The report highlights your organization's top 10 highest-risk users, providing security teams with actionable intelligence for targeted interventions. Rather than applying blanket policies across all users, this insight enables risk-based approaches that address the specific behaviors creating the greatest exposure.
Security analysts can prioritize incident response and monitoring efforts, while security awareness teams can develop personalized training approaches. This targeted visibility helps optimize security resources while addressing the most significant human risk factors.
Advanced Risk Insights: Intelligence That Drives Action
Beyond user behavior, the report provides detailed intelligence about impersonated brands detected by Mimecast Credential Theft Protection, business email compromise patterns, malicious sending domains, blocked URLs, and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) detection insights.
These insights help security teams understand their specific threat landscape and adapt defenses accordingly. The CVE detection data provides proactive intelligence for preventing threats targeting known vulnerabilities, while brand impersonation analysis helps organizations protect their reputation and warn users about targeted attacks.
Making the Business Case: From Data to Decisions
Security leaders consistently face requests to justify cybersecurity investments and demonstrate protection value. The Human Risk Insights Report provides evidence for these conversations, combining quantified threat prevention with industry benchmarking and risk reduction metrics.
The report formats make it suitable for board presentations and executive briefings, translating technical security operations into business language that resonates with senior leadership. Security managers can use benchmarking data to support resource requests, while risk scoring provides objective metrics for measuring security program effectiveness.
The Path Forward
Human risk management won't succeed with a set it and forget it approach; it requires continuous attention and adaptation. The Human Risk Insights Report provides the visibility needed to make informed decisions about where to focus security efforts, how to measure improvement, and when to adjust strategies based on changing threat patterns.
Mimecast continues gathering feedback from security teams to enhance the insights provided and expand the report's scope based on real-world usage and changing security needs. Thoughts or feedback? Let us know in the comments below.
Accessing Your Report
The Human Risk Insights Report is available to all Email Security Cloud Gateway customers through the Mimecast Administration Console. Navigate to Reporting, then Human Risk Insights to access your monthly reports. The HRM platform supports up to 10 email subscribers who receive the report automatically on the first of each month.
Access the report to see how Mimecast protects your organization, understand your risk position relative to industry peers, and gain the insights needed to strengthen your security posture while demonstrating clear business value.
Fore more information, review the Mimecast Human Risk Insights Report Guide. First time hearing about the Human Risk Command Center? Review the documentation here and get started with integrations here.
