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• Ex-Hitachi Vantara president Mark Ablett picked for Proofpoint APJ

  Comes into the role with over 30 years of sales experience.

• SMBs and regional MSPs are increasingly targeted by state-sponsored APT groups

  Research shows a shift toward advanced persistent threat actors compromising smaller organisation, in part to enable other attacks.

• Proofpoint focuses on specialties with new partner program

  Transition to Elite status for old Gold partners claimed “will be simple”.

• Threat actors abuse Microsoft’s “verified publisher” status to exploit OAuth privileges

  Proofpoint discovers threat actors targeting verified status in the Microsoft environment to abuse OAuth privileges and lure users into authorising malicious apps.

• Varonis taps Proofpoint’s Joshua Goodman to drive A/NZ sales

  Continues local hiring drive.

• 5 social engineering assumptions that are wrong

  Cyber criminals continue to launch creative social engineering attacks to trick users. Meanwhile, social engineering misconceptions are exacerbating the risks of falling victim.