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Email security needs more seatbelts: Why click rate is the wrong metric

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Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Date Published: 2026-01-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Sponsored by Material Security

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This sponsored article argues that click rate is a poor proxy for phishing risk and promotes a layered email security strategy—prevention, detection and recovery, and especially containment—to minimize damage after mailbox compromise; it recommends automated remediation (e.g., clawing back sensitive content, revoking risky app permissions), enforcing extra verification for sensitive data, intercepting password reset emails, and disabling legacy protocols, and suggests measuring mailbox lootability, reset-path exposure, and time-to-contain as more meaningful risk metrics.

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