The Committee will receive a presentation from Sara Hydon (Head of Design and Compliance) and Simon Marshall (Governance and Compliance Manager)
Minutes:
The Committee received a presentation from Sara Hydon (Head of Design and Compliance) and Simon Marshall (Governance and Compliance Manager) on Egress Prevent which was the Council’s chosen email security solution.
The software gave the authority the ability to secure all critical and sensitive emails from outside threats. It helped prevent information from being sent to unverified sources, enabled the authority to be compliant with Information Governance legislation, promoted strong security practices and used machine learning capabilities to monitor user activity to prevent breaches occurring. A video was then shown of the system ‘in operation’.
Information was then provided of the Egress analytics which indicated, amongst other things:
· the number of misdirected emails sent and the ‘advice’ accepted via the software
· the number of ‘display name’ impersonation emails received
· information in relation to large recipient list emails and multi-domain emails together with the advice accepted
· the number of emails analysed. It was noted that during 2021, of 1,168,738 emails analyzed, 3,294 incidents had been prevented which amounted to approximately 37 per day
In the ensuing discussion reference was also made to the reasons for why users might legitimately not accept the ‘advice’ proffered by the software and to the benefits to the Council of using Egress Prevent which could not be overstated.
RESOLVED that the presentation be noted and Sara Hydon and Simon Marshall be thanked for attending the meeting and for answering Members questions.