Tessian and the Ponemon Institute Email DLP Report 2022
New research from the Ponemon Institute reveals that nearly 60% of organizations experienced data loss or exfiltration caused by an employee mistake on email in the last 12 months. Email was revealed as the riskiest channel for data loss in organizations, as stated by 65% of IT security practitioners. This was closely followed by cloud file-sharing services (62%) and instant messaging platforms (57%).
Strategy
Strategic Audiences; Thought Leadership; Threat Research
Client
Tessian
The Tessian and Ponemon Institute
Report Highlights
Tessian’s mission is to secure the human layer. Using machine learning technology, Tessian automatically stops data breaches and security threats caused by human error – like data exfiltration, accidental data loss, business email compromise, and phishing attacks – with minimal disruption to employees’ workflow. As a result, employees are empowered to do their best work, without security getting in their way.
Founded in 2013, Tessian is backed by renowned investors like Sequoia, Accel, March Capital, and Balderton, and has offices in San Francisco and London.
Learn more at https://www.tessian.com/about/
Tessian set out to be more aggressive in their efforts to increase thought leadership and share of voice (SOV) within the security industry. And part of this project was to produce a high-quality, meaningful thought leadership research report that spoke directly to decision makers in the email security and data loss prevention (DLP) space.
The core of this project included a sponsored research report with the Ponemon Institute, to survey over several hundred security professionals in the United States, about their concerns about sensitive data leaving the organization via email.
- Research Report from Ponemon Institute
- Additional branded report for campaigns
- Landing pages
- Copy for all campaign assets
Tessian and the Ponemon Institute
Email DLP Report Samples




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This study, independently conducted by the Ponemon Institute, focuses on the rising need for a behavioral intelligence approach to proactively prevent email data loss.
Read the latest survey from the Ponemon Institute to learn about…
The risk of data loss due to email vulnerabilities. 65% of respondents say data is most vulnerable in emails.
The effectiveness of current technologies in preventing email data loss and exfiltration. On average it takes 18 months to deploy and find value from DLP solutions.
The barriers and capabilities that improve email data loss prevention. 54% of respondents say the primary barrier to securing sensitive data is the lack of visibility of sensitive data that is transferred from the network to personal email.

