The $872 Million Blind Spot

This wasn’t the failure of security investment

In the first quarter of 2024, a single ransomware attack cost Change Healthcare an estimated $872 million in recovery expenses, downtime, and lost business. One email, one click, and one overlooked vulnerability triggered one of the costliest cyber disruptions in U.S. history.

This wasn’t the failure of security investment—Change Healthcare, like most Fortune 500 companies, was already spending millions on advanced security platforms. It was the failure of visibility.

Native Security is Good, not Great

Organizations trust that built‑in cloud email protection will stop threats, but recent research shows that nearly 19% of phishing emails still slip into user inboxes. Attackers know exactly how to exploit that margin. They engineer zero‑day phishing sites that exist for less than 24 hours, camouflage malicious links inside documents or QR codes, and now use AI‑generated messages to impersonate executives with unsettling realism. Traditional tools, tuned for known threats and static attack patterns, simply can’t keep up.

This is the blind spot: the gap between what native email defenses can detect and what modern, adaptive attackers can create. And it’s this gap—not a lack of investment—that continues to cost enterprises millions.

The Solution

The solution is a new approach to email and collaboration security—one that prevents, not just detects. Inline protection that blocks messages before they reach the inbox. AI‑driven analysis that understands human relationships and intent, not just words. Continuous inspection of shared files and collaboration channels so that ransomware and phishing have nowhere to hide.

When prevention happens before delivery, the $872 million moment never occurs. The board doesn’t field calls from headlines, operations don’t grind to a halt, and the SOC can focus on strategy rather than cleanup. The real return on security investment isn’t another layer of alerts—it’s the disappearance of the threat itself.

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