Cyberattacks are increasing, and so is the awareness regarding them. While we focus on the phishing attacks and ransomware due to well-publicized hacks, emails are still the biggest vulnerability for your company. Attacks are targeted at highly personal content, with credentials and details that are often stolen from real people or well-known brands. But the threats are not just external. 71% of organizations experienced a cyberattack because of a compromised employee account in 2019. Hence, your IT team needs an end-to-end strategy to tackle these email threats.
Here are some ways in which CMIT can provide a solution against email threats.
- Layers of Security
Cloud solutions are the first thing that comes to mind when talking about security, and many companies use Office 365. Sure, Microsoft provides the up to the mark, security tools for their applications, but they require supervision for proper maintenance and implementation of those tools. Even though the security tools are there, but they only provide a single layer of security, and with the rising cyberattacks, one is not enough. Your company should have a multi-layer security environment that is equipped with a diverse range of protections, and providers, so there is never a scope of failure. For example, Microsoft email tools, such as Enterprise Mobility, can be layered with a third-party vendor that specializes in cloud-based email security.
- Three Email threats targeted employees
The optimum email solution must safeguard the network perimeter, interior, as well as email perimeter. Those three areas require a special strategy in place to suppress ransomware, spear-phishing, and internal threats.
- Ransomware is malware that encrypts a victim’s information or device until its specific purpose is met. An email security solution should provide web security to prevent attacks from completing.
- Spear-Phishing refers to campaigns that harvest user credentials using malicious site links. They are usually imitating a well-known brand in a personalized manner, or convey urgency to generate user response.
- Internal threats, as opposed to the others, usually originate with a compromised email account or a malicious employee, or an unintentional human error.
An email security tool can custom security controls based on the company’s employee activity, location, correspondence patterns, and so on.
- Email Security can save time and money
Adding an email security solution improved defense against SPAM significantly and decrease email-borne threats in business email compromise. A multi-layer security solution can help your company save time as the IT teams do not have to be always monitoring the programs. The employees are more confident to pursue security projects after reducing SPAM, dangerous file types, malicious attachments, and impersonation attacks without sacrificing end-user safety.
Other important tools for a security strategy are-
Cloud archive: The program systematically collects email content to deliver streamlined management, availability, and retrieval
Email backup and recovery, as the name says, provides syncing and recovery for exchange
e-Discovery and compliance tools offer specialized features to meet regulatory requirements.
