Email Security

Email security services include tools, technologies, and training to help protect email communications from various threats, such as phishing, malware, and unauthorized access to name a few. Areas like spam filtering, malware detection, encryption, and policy creation can help ensure that both incoming and outgoing emails are secure.

Best practices for email security can include:

Regular employee training to recognize and handle email threats.

Using stronger and unique passwords

Avoiding email attachments in favor of cloud services

Ensuring links and URLs are legitimate

Being cautious about email hyperlinks

Implementing strong spam filters.

Using email encryption, especially for sensitive data.

Together, these measures can help minimize the risk of email-related security breaches.

Explore more about best practices in this blog post.

An email security gateway acts as a gatekeeper, scanning inbound and outbound emails to detect and block harmful content before it reaches user inboxes or leaves the organization. The best solutions offer features like advanced threat protection to block malware and phishing attempts (look for solutions that are always on top of the latest malware and phishing techniques), outbound email filtering to mitigate/prevent possible data leaks, robust encryption options to secure sensitive data, spam filtering to reduce unwanted emails, and easy integration with existing systems. It’s helpful to have analytics and reporting tools to monitor email threats and support compliance requirements around data protection.

There are a wide variety of email security threats, and it makes sense to ensure technologies are in place to address them and that users are trained on best practices.

Unencrypted Emails: Sending sensitive information through unencrypted emails can be easily intercepted by cybercriminals.

Malware: Various forms of malware, including viruses and ransomware, can be embedded in email attachments and links.

Phishing: Attackers impersonate legitimate sources to steal sensitive information through emails.

Email Spoofing: Emails are forged to appear as if they are from a legitimate source, tricking recipients into providing sensitive information.

Email Bombing: Overwhelming an email system with a massive number of emails, causing it to crash.

Weak Passwords: Simple or reused passwords can easily be guessed or hacked, leading to unauthorized access.

For a more in-depth view of these common email security threats, read more in this blog.

Email security is essential because it protects sensitive information from being stolen or exposed. With the sophistication of external threat actors increasing, it can be difficult for every user to protect against exposing information. Email security can help prevent cyber threats like phishing, which can trick you into giving away personal info, and malware, which can cause damage to your systems. Email security is a basic ‘must-have’ for every organization.