2023 marks 20 years in business for cybersecurity titan Mimecast, with the company founded in 2003 with "a focus on delivering relentless protection." The company explains it takes on cyber disruption for its tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together.

Having built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector, email, Mimecast explains it "continuously invests to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities," protecting companies large and small from not just malicious activity, but human error and technology failure, leading the movement toward building a more resilient world.

In February, the company held the Melbourne and Sydney versions of its Mimecast Connect 2023 event, with the Melbourne event now able to be streamed in its entirety here, which featured global and local industry leaders, including Mimecast Co-founder and CEO Peter Bauer, the latest technical developments in advanced email and collaboration security, best practices surrounding building a layered and integrated security stack from leading vendors in email, endpoint, web, network and identity security, break-out sessions relevant to roles across strategy, technical and API streams, as well as the usual networking opportunities and the always fun expo spaces.

Dubbed "Work Protected, Together", the event also saw an excellent and engaging presentation titled Preventing Burnout in Cyber Teams: The “Why” is Obvious, but What About the “How”, by Cybermindz.org founder Peter Coroneous, of which Mimecast is a founding supporter. Any company with cyber teams is absolutely encouraged to watch, with the mental wellness of cyber teams never under greater stress than today, given the hyper heightened risk environment we're all affected by, whether consumers, workers, business leaders and everyone else.

Events like Mimecast Connect 2023 are important, because as the company points out, the work surface is now the risk surface, making it more important than ever for the industry to come together to share knowledge and fight back by protecting communications, people and data.

Mimecast also recently released the 2023 edition of its seventh annual State of Email Security report, which comes as organisations all over the world grow more skittish over rising economic volatility and intensifying geopolitical tensions, with the sage advice that now is definitely not the time to become lax on cybersecurity.

The report features the latest insights from 1,700 CISOs and other IT professionals as they present a realistic picture of the steps they are taking to protect their organisations in the face of increases in email usage, email-base threats, and the sophistication of cyberattacks.

So, to experience the Mimecast Connect 2023 event for yourself, you can do so here, but let's now turn our attention to the video interviews I conducted with both Peter Bauer, Co-Founder and CEO of Mimecast, and Nick Lennon, VP APAC of Mimecast, both during the Sydney event on the same day and venue as that evening's Cybermindz Fundraising Gala Dinner, to hear their views on the cybersecurity landscape, the benefits and threats of AI, mental health in cyber security, and so much more!

We start by hearing from Peter Bauer, and directly below that is the video interview with Nick Lennon, after which is an infographic with Australian information from the State of Security 2023 report, so please watch and enjoy!

Now we hear from Nick Lennon:

Here is the State of Email Security 2023 Australian infographic: