Malicious email volume

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Dear Maritime and Coastguard Agency,

Please find below my FOI request regarding malicious emails sent to the department.

The date range for the requests is from 2018 to present day. The data shall include a breakdown by year and by individual departments (e.g. separate departments, agencies, or public bodies within the main government agency), if applicable.

1. How many malicious emails have been successfully blocked?
2. What percentage of malicious emails were opened by staff?
3. What percentage of malicious links in the emails were clicked on by staff?
4. How many ransomware attacks were blocked by the department?
5. How many ransomware attacks were successful?

Yours faithfully,
Rebecca Moody

Good afternoon,

Please could you provide an update on my FOI request sent on 11th November?

Yours faithfully,
Rebecca

InformationAssurance, Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Good Afternoon Rebecca

I have checked our records and emails, and unfortunately can find no trace of receiving a FOI request from yourself. Please could you send it again for us to action.

Kind Regards

Janice

Information Assurance
Maritime & Coastguard Agency
Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton, SO15 1EG

Safer Lives, Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas

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Dear Maritime and Coastguard Agency,

Here is the FOI request originally sent on 11th November, which you claim to have not received.

Please find below my FOI request regarding malicious emails sent to the department.

The date range for the requests is from 2018 to present day. The data shall include a breakdown by year and by individual departments (e.g. separate departments, agencies, or public bodies within the main government agency), if applicable.

1. How many malicious emails have been successfully blocked?
2. What percentage of malicious emails were opened by staff?
3. What percentage of malicious links in the emails were clicked on by staff?
4. How many ransomware attacks were blocked by the department?
5. How many ransomware attacks were successful?

Yours faithfully,
Rebecca Moody

InformationAssurance, Maritime and Coastguard Agency

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Good Afternoon Ms Moody

 

Please find attached the response to your recent Freedom of Information
Request.

 

Kind Regards

 

Janice

 

Information Assurance

Maritime & Coastguard Agency

Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton, SO15 1EG

 

Safer Lives, Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas

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