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:
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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.
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Prevent Malware. The primary threat related to phishing attacks is not the email
itself but rather the techniques used to deceive individuals. Phishing emails
often include malicious links and attachments, fraudsters then capitalise on
these techniques using various methods to dupe the user into clicking on a
malicious link, open an infected attachment or obtain personal or confidential
information in the form of credential harvesting. Sophos Email Time-of-Click
URL rewriting analyses all URLs as they are clicked to block or warn users of
risks or potential threats, while the Sophos cloud sandbox accurately analyses
all files using multi-layered analysis and state-of-the art machine learning
models. This ensures the
latest zero-day and unknown malware threats and as well as PUA’s are blocked.
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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’ behaviour methods 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
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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.
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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.
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Comprehensive reporting. Sophos
unlocks visibility with clear dashboards, message summaries and detailed threat
reports from one dashboard.
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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.