CyberheistNews Vol 16 #40 Why Microsoft's Latest Defense-in-Depth Email Benchmark Is So Surprising
KnowBe4, Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
KnowBe4's CyberheistNews examines Microsoft's fifth email security benchmarking report and its real-world findings.
This edition of KnowBe4's CyberheistNews newsletter leads with Microsoft's fifth consecutive email security benchmarking report, which analyzed real-world data rather than lab simulations.
KnowBe4 argues that organizational inertia keeps many companies on inadequate email security architectures, and that calculating TCO and ROI for new security technology has often felt like guesswork for executives such as CFOs.
The benchmark is presented as a way to evaluate defense-in-depth email stacks with real evidence.