Top 5 Ways to Protect Against Email Attacks

See all the latest details about email security for yourself, including defences that go beyond the traditional gateway to detect and block spear phishing, account takeover, and business email compromise.

Make sure your email security covers the basics, such as having solid anti-spam and anti-malware protection. From there you need to ensure your solution has modern security features like Advanced Threat Protection, which helps block zero-day attacks. The final thing you need to consider for your strong email foundation is outbound protection to prevent malicious or accidental data leakage.

A lot of organizations tend to miss the most important defense layer—their end users. To do this, you first need to identify high-risk users, which are commonly C-level executives and folks that deal with your company’s finances. However, even though these employees are often targeted, you still need to provide training to everyone in your organization to ensure full end user protection. To do this, train them using a solution that combines phishing simulations with security training.

Some email-borne attacks can evade email security and land in your users’ inboxes. When this happens, you need to act fast to identify and remediate these attacks immediately. Sure, your users can report these attacks, but you can also be proactive by analyzing patterns within delivered emails to identify threats that are already in their inboxes. Quickly prevent potential damage by easily identifying all affected uses within minutes using automated tools and incident response. You can also reduce the time it takes to respond to threats by automatically removing all instances of malicious email directly from users’ inboxes.