Email protection is a security solution designed to secure internal communication, prevent data loss, and protect financial or personal information. It also safeguards an organisation’s entire supply chain. As email-borne threats like phishing and ransomware attacks grow—currently, 3.4 billion phishing emails are sent daily—implementing strong email security solutions has become critical. This number is expected to rise further in the coming years, increasing the need for comprehensive defences.
What Does Email Protection Do?
Email protection services offer advanced threat detection to guard against phishing, ransomware, spam, malware, and brand impersonation. These email security solutions use a multilayered approach, including employee Security Awareness Testing & Training, technology tools like DMARC, and real-time threat monitoring. Advanced threat intelligence and machine learning scans identify potential threats earlier, stopping email-borne attacks before they spread and cause greater damage.
Additionally, managed email security services automatically neutralise threats and initiate incident response protocols to quickly contain breaches, minimising damage and reducing overall security risks.
Why Do You Need Email Protection?
Given the widespread use of email in daily business operations, it is frequently targeted by cybercriminals as an entry point for attacks. A successful email attack can lead to data loss, compromise financial assets, and harm brand reputation. A fully managed email protection solution ensures the safety of:
- Supply chains, preventing cyber threats from disrupting business operations.
- Financial assets by blocking phishing and ransomware attacks.
- Brand reputation by preventing impersonation attempts.
- Sensitive network data and company information.
- Employees from becoming victims of email-based attacks.
By using encryption, advanced threat detection, incident response, and fully managed protection, email security solutions help organisations reduce security risks and maintain a strong cybersecurity posture.
Email is the most attacked threat surface. Phishing and spoofing are usually the entry point of today’s email-initiated breaches.
It’s tempting to rely on an email malware filtering tool for all your email protection needs. But it’s not enough. Standalone malware filtering won’t defend against today’s attacks.
Phishing and spoofing attacks use social engineering to persuade your colleagues to give away confidential information or visit a malicious website. The email won’t always contain malware and so it can’t be picked up by malware filtering.
Every week there’s a new announcement of the latest ransomware attack where the breach was made via email. These attacks are too common and too damaging for you to rely on simple malware filtering tools alone.
You need a layered approach to email protection
Only by layering tools and training will you protect your organisation from email-initiated threats.
Our managed email protection solution perfectly complements your existing email filtering tool.
It addresses the two email attack methods that malware filtering misses: phishing and spoofing.
Contact us today to discuss your needs
Email Phishing and Spoofing Attacks
Email phishing attacks aim to trick people into giving away sensitive data or other actions that will benefit the cyber-criminal. These emails are sent to thousands of recipients and cause harm to the companies and individuals who unwittingly do as the criminal’s tell them.
Your email malware tool only works on company emails. It doesn’t scan the personal email platforms used by your staff. This means any staff checking their personal email on a work computer will be completely unprotected. As much as we might like staff not to do this, we know they do and so we know we need to deal with it.
Your ‘human firewall’ will be either your strongest or weakest defence against phishing attacks. That’s why you need to train your colleagues to be savvy emailers and help them to help you keep the company safe.
Managed Email Protection from Red Helix supports you by regularly testing your workforce’s cyber awareness, identifying knowledge gaps, and giving the online training needed to improve cyber vigilance and improve your human firewall.
Email spoofing attacks target individuals by credibly posing as someone they trust, like a client, colleague, or supplier. They ask them to take action that they might not question or confirm by other means. This can have devastating consequences and will easily bypass your email malware tool.
Email security and convenience
Addressing email security needs used to be quick easy with an annual subscription to your email malware filtering tool. But the threat landscape has moved on and so should you.
We know that finding and running tools for today’s layered email protection needs takes time and resource. Our Managed Security Team takes away this pain and provides you with a robust email security strategy that’s convenient, whilst adapting to the ever-changing email threat landscape.
To identify where your email may lack sufficient security measures, we are offering a free Digital Exposure and Risk Review, which are our high-level assessments of your publicly available digital assets, highlighting gaps in your security that are visible to all.
Contact us today to discuss and we will be delighted to explain how we can secure your emails to help you protect your colleagues and company.
Our Email Protection Managed Service
Red Helix’s Managed Email Protection Service uses the very latest technology to address spoofing attacks by analysing the risk profile of the sender. Our system lets the recipient make an informed decision about the email so they can seek confirmation that it really is from who they think it is from and prevent a costly mistake.
The combination of cyber training and the technology features of our Email Protection Service will compliment your email malware filtering tool to provide robust security for your Microsoft 365 Email or Google Mail platform.
Support
Let us enhance your security by combining market leading security awareness training with inbox threat protection with two flexible service options:
Our service is ideal for organisations that want to manage their security training and testing, while taking their inbox protection to the next level. Our team of experts are available to help you setup and provide ongoing support.
We will:
- Support to help you setup up the service. Including, but is not limited to:
- Configuration changes required to support the service.
- Schedule Phishing Simulations and training
- Help to setup rules to catch and remove sophisticated phishing attacks.
- Ongoing support for Managed Security Awareness and Training service.
Everything you get with supported as a Managed Service, plus:
- Weekly service checks to ensure the ongoing health of the service.
- Ongoing configuration changes.
- Setup and scheduling of reports providing information and insights for your services.
- We will respond and notify you of any observations, and work with you to agree actions.
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