Advanced Email Security

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Phishing Protection

Defend your business against email cyber-attacks and compromised accounts with Advanced Email Security.

Our Advanced Email Security solutions act as a powerful protective barrier, intercepting and analysing inbound and outbound emails, and identifying and blocking malicious phishing attempts and malware. The content, attachments, and links are scanned in real-time, using AI and dynamic analysis of the latest threat intelligence to identify and block dangerous correspondence. These security measures not only help prevent phishing emails from reaching your emails, but also help protect your clients and customers should your email account be compromised.

This proactive approach helps block a wide range of threats, including phishing attempts, Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Takeover (ATO), and malware. By stopping these threats from reaching your inbox, you significantly reduce the risk of your staff falling victim to these malicious emails. By also scanning your outgoing emails, you help prevent potential threats from spreading to your contacts including to your customers. You can have peace of mind knowing that if your business email account is breached, Advanced Email Security protection can prevent the sending of malicious phishing emails from your account. This is vital to maintaining your business’s reputation and customer trust.


By implementing Advanced Email Security, to monitor both inbound and outbound emails, you create a safer email environment not only for your business but also for your clients. Contact us to protect your business email accounts.

FAQs

Advanced Email Security measures can be very effective at protecting your business accounts against cyber threats. Using high-quality, intelligent security measures that actively learn about the latest threats are the most effective at protecting email accounts. However, no security measure is 100% effective as cyber criminals are constantly finding new ways to bypass them. Therefore, it is important that your staff remain vigilant and educated on how to recognise malicious emails.

A phishing email is a malicious and fraudulent email that imitates one from a reputable source, with the intention of tricking the recipient into providing sensitive information such as passwords and credit card numbers. These emails often contain links to fake websites that look similar to legitimate ones and are designed to steal personal information for criminal purposes such as identity theft or financial fraud. Phishing emails can take on many forms, including fake bank alerts, shipping notifications, or urgent requests, and can sometimes be difficult to distinguish from legitimate emails. It's important to be cautious and vigilant when receiving emails, and to never click on links or provide personal information without verifying the sender's authenticity.

Account takeover is a serious cybersecurity threat where unauthorised users gain access to existing accounts, often through stolen or hacked login credentials. Unlike identity theft, which involves creating new accounts, account takeover exploits existing relationships between users and service providers. This is usually in the form of phishing emails sent to contacts to trick them into providing personal or business information, leveraging the trust associated with the known sender to spread malware or scams further.

The consequences of an account takeover can be severe:

  • Financial losses from unauthorised transactions or drained accounts
  • Theft of sensitive personal information
  • Reputational damage if the account is used to spread malicious content
  • Emotional distress for the victims

Recovering from an account takeover is often a long and complex process. Victims must secure their compromised accounts, monitor their credit reports, and guard against potential identity theft. For businesses, account takeovers can lead to data breaches, financial losses, and erosion of customer trust.

It is vital that businesses have cyber security measures in place such as Advanced Email protection, multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access Policies and user awareness training to reduce the risk of Email Account Takeover.

Business Email Compromise is a sophisticated form of phishing scam that manipulates users into providing sensitive information or transferring money to someone impersonating a staff member, usually an executive or director. Social engineering tactics are used to target individuals with financial authority or access to sensitive data.

BEC attacks can result in significant financial losses, data breaches, and reputational damage, even when the impersonator does not have access to your real company email account. They're particularly dangerous because they exploit trust and authority within an organisation.

Protection against Business Email Compromise should include an advanced antispam filter to detect and block these types of impersonation emails, as well as thorough staff training on how to recognise them.

Educating yourself on the key characteristics of phishing emails is one of the best methods to protect yourself and your business. Some of the key things to look out for are:

  • Wrong email sender: Check the email address of the sender rather than the name assigned to it. Check for generic domains, wrong spellings, and numbers in place of letters.
  • Urgent calls to action: Urgency is used to scare the user into taking action, giving away information to scammers.
  • ‘Too Good to be True’ Emails: Emails that promise rewards usually in return for information are rarely true. This tactic is used to convince users to open and interact with the email.
  • Impersonal greetings: Generic greetings are usually a sign that the sender is sending a large number of emails to unknown recipients.
  • Bad spelling and grammar: Legitimate companies will use software to check and correct these before sending emails.

User errors are the largest cause of cyber security breaches. Therefore, it is vital that your staff are educated about the latest cyber security threat targeting users, and how to recognise them. Users can cause cyber security breaches by:

  • Using weak passwords: Using easily guessable passwords, reusing passwords for multiple accounts, and not updating passwords regularly.
  • Phishing: Falling for phishing scams, such as fake emails or websites posing as legitimate organisations, and providing sensitive information.
  • Social engineering: Users can be manipulated or tricked into giving up sensitive information or access to company systems.
  • Downloading malicious software: Visiting suspicious websites and downloading unverified files or clicking on links from unknown sources can introduce malware to a device.
  • Using out-of-date devices software: If devices and software are not updated, attackers can exploit vulnerabilities that may have been repaired for newer updates.
  • Using unsecured devices: Losing devices or leaving them unsecured, such as not locking them when not in use or not protecting data on them with a secure password.

By having policies and cyber security protection in place, as well as vigilant staff, many of these threats can be eliminated.

Email spam and phishing attempts threaten all businesses, including small and medium-sized businesses. Implementing Advanced Email Security provides a powerful barrier to protect against incoming and outgoing email threats. Here are the top reasons why every business should utilise Advanced Email Security:

  • Blocks malicious emails - Filters out dangerous spam and phishing attempts containing malware, ransomware, or fraudulent links that could cause data breaches.
  • Prevents outgoing malicious emails – If your email account is breached, security features will scan your outgoing emails for malicious content and prevent them from being sent
  • Improves productivity - Prevents the time wasted dealing with junk emails so employee time is focused on meaningful work.
  • Protects reputation – By preventing malicious emails from being sent from your email accounts, you help ensure that your business is not unknowingly the source of cyber threats for your customers.

Antispam filters are used to prevent spam, phishing, and malicious emails from reaching your inbox. This means that the risk of your staff falling victim to these types of emails is significantly reduced. Advanced Email Security utilises antispam technologies to scan not only inbound emails for malicious characteristics, but also outbound emails. This means that if your email account is compromised by a cybercriminal, Advanced Email Security prevents many outbound malicious emails from being sent from your account. This helps prevent the spread of potential threats from being passed on to your clients.

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