Malicious email volume

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Dear Birmingham City Council,

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

The date range for the requests is from 2018 to present day. The data shall include a breakdown by year.

1. How many malicious emails (e.g. phishing 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?
5. How many ransomware attacks were successful?

Yours faithfully,
Rebecca Moody

Birmingham City Council

 
 
 
 
Information request
Our reference: 31750778
Your reference: [FOI #807038 email]

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Good afternoon,

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

Yours faithfully,
Rebecca

Good afternoon,

Thank you for your prompt response to my FOI request. While I appreciate your refusal to provide the information, we have submitted this FOI request to a large number of government agencies, many of whom have provided us with data.

Would you consider submitting data for question 1 (How many malicious emails have been successfully blocked?) alone? Every organization receives malicious emails, therefore, we don't feel this would fall within the sections you quoted (cybercriminals won't know how many, if any, of these emails are successful and, therefore, have no information on how successful your cybersecurity systems are).

Yours sincerely,
Rebecca

My apologies, the request was sent on 15th Novemeber.

Thank you,
Rebecca

Birmingham City Council

Dear Ms Moody
 
I am writing further to your email below where you have requested:
 
Thank you for your prompt response to my FOI request. While I appreciate
your refusal to provide the information, we have submitted this FOI
request to a large number of government agencies, many of whom have
provided us with data.

Would you consider submitting data for question 1 (How many malicious
emails have been successfully blocked?) alone? Every organization receives
malicious emails, therefore, we don't feel this would fall within the
sections you quoted (cybercriminals won't know how many, if any, of these
emails are successful and, therefore, have no information on how
successful your cybersecurity systems are).
 
We will treat this as a new request which will be:
 
(How many malicious emails have been successfully blocked?) alone
 
Regards
Corporate Information Governance Team

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My apologies, the request was sent on 15th Novemeber.

Thank you,
Rebecca

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Birmingham City Council

 
 
 
 
Information request
Our reference: 33920929

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