Cybersecurity: Defending UK’s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) Against Email Fraud

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Neil Hammet, Senior Product Evangelist, Email Fraud Defence & Chris Clarke, Email Fraud Defence

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HMRC, the UK Government department for Revenue and Customs who manage among other things UK Corporation tax, UK Income tax and VAT, was always going to be an obvious target for cyber attacks. In 2017-2018, millions of fraudulent emails were being sent purporting to offer tax refunds to UK tax payers. Something had to be done.   Join this webinar, as experts and project managers discuss: - HMRC’s experiences of Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Email Account Compromise (EAC) - The specific problems and the scale of the challenge they faced - How a solution was found, and the resulting success for HMRC, the IT Security team, but most of all the peace of mind offered to HMRC customers - How success was tracked and measured This is the second of three webinars forming a mini-summit: Session 1: Evolving Business Email Attack Tactics from Lockdown through to Return to Work Session 2: Customer Case Study - Protecting the UK's HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) from Email Fraud Session 3: Live Panel - Detect and Block BEC Scams Links to all three sessions in the attachments.
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