Emails,
the primary method of communication for most businesses in the digital age are
more valuable than ever to attackers. Statistics show that on average 90% of
company security breaches are via phishing attempts. Whether users are targeted
to receive phishing emails, or they have their mailbox compromised to send spam
and viruses from your organisation’s domain, the risks to your organisation are
immense.
Criminals
often impersonate key individuals in an organisation in an attempt to trick
other employees into falling for their scams. With no malware or URLs to
detect, Sophos Email uses advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) machine
learning to block these targeted impersonation and Business Email Compromise attacks.
NLP
is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on helping computers to
understand the way humans write and speak. This enables Sophos Email to
understand words in context rather than individually to extract notions like ‘urgency’
and/or ‘requesting something’ with an email and stop the message from reaching
your users.
“For
added protection, Sophos Email also includes a setup assistant that integrates
with AD Sync to automatically identify the individuals within an organisation
who are most likely to be impersonated. Sophos Email Protection scans all
inbound mail for display name variations associated with those users, further
extending protection against phishing imposters,” says Ross Anderson, Sophos Product
Development Manager at Duxbury Networking.
Sophos Email allows users to:
· Authenticate senders. Adversaries are experts at using social engineering in their attacks. That’s why Sophos Email scans all inbound messages for key phishing indicators such as brand spoofing and impersonation attempts in real-time using SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authentication techniques and email header anomaly analysis. It spots and blocks phishing emails before they reach your users.
· Automatically identify your high-profile targets. Cyber-attacks using the guise of Phishing are in most cases unpredictable and go unnoticed, cunning techniques and ‘trusted’ behavioumethods are used by attackers to trick the unsuspecting victim and these methods are constantly evolving and becoming harder to detect, Sophos Email Security stays ahead of the game by continuously learning the behaviour of the latest trends and blocking threats before they compromise your business. Sophos’ cloud sandbox analyses all file processes, file activity, registry activity, and network connections to block ransomware and other forms of malware. Sophos deep learning artificial intelligence blocks zero-day malware and unwanted applications in their tracks.
Benefits of Sophos Email
·
Microsoft 365 security. Sophos
Email Security seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office 365. API-based email
security ensures a faster setup and email processing. Continuous post-delivery
protection automatically removes phishing emails containing newly infected URLs
as soon as the threat state changes. Direct integration with the flow of
messages allows for faster processing time on all emails, while still providing
the same advanced protection.
·
Centralise threat intelligence for
faster response. Maximise security investment and
identify previously unseen indicators of compromise across your environments
with shared threat intelligence from endpoint and email protection in the
Sophos XDR data lake. Extensive visibility across the Microsoft 365 suite,
Firewalls, server workloads, mobile devices, the network and more.
·
Comprehensive reporting. Sophos
unlocks visibility with clear dashboards, message summaries and detailed threat
reports from one dashboard.
·
Increase efficiency. Sophos’
single cloud management platform (Sophos Central) is one pane of glass, IT
professionals can take advantage and manage their endpoint and server protection,
device encryption, Wi-Fi, firewalls, email protection and more from one
console.
“Sophos
Email security is part of a broader ecosystem of protection offered by Sophos,
uniquely connected to automate threat detection and response,” says Anderson.