Email Security & Anti-Phishing

Keep emails and your brand safe from sophisticated phishing attacks, social engineering tactics, and insider threats.

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What Is Email Security?

Email remains the most widely used channel for cyberattacks and a key entry point for sensitive data. Organizations’ continued reliance on email makes it essential to have a robust, integrated, and adaptive email security solution that can address a wide range of email-based threats.

An essential requirement for any organization, email security encompasses the technologies and policies designed to protect email content and communications from cyberattacks.

Whether on-premises or in the cloud, email security should protect inboxes from hackers, malware, and phishing. It also should protect organizations from impersonation attacks, where threat actors pose as trusted colleagues, vendors, or partners to commit fraud. Last, but certainly not least, it should safeguard organizational data.

What is Anti-Phishing?

Phishing is one of the most prevalent forms of social engineering attacks, used to steal sensitive personal information or gain access to a company’s network. In a phishing attempt, malicious messages are designed to trick recipients into clicking a link or opening an email attachment that contains malware. In Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, threat actors may also impersonate company personnel to deceive recipients into believing they are interacting with a trusted sender.

In today’s landscape of increasingly sophisticated scams, a proactive anti-phishing posture is essential for maintaining a secure email environment. Anti-phishing solutions help prevent threats from reaching employee inboxes by monitoring all messages entering and moving within an organization, defending against highly targeted, identity-based attacks.

Threats to Email Security

Email remains one of the most widely used and convenient communication tools — and that makes it one of the most common entry points for cyberattacks. Email security threats come in many forms, including:

Business Email Compromise (BEC)

Scams such as executive spoofing trick people into believing they are interacting with a trusted sender — no malware or malicious links required.

Spear Phishing

Emails disguised as trusted communications, designed to fool people into taking action such as giving up their user credentials or opening an attachment.

Account Takeover

When a cybercriminal gains control of a legitimate user’s account to impersonate them, exploit trust, and carry out unauthorized actions.

Ransomware

A type of malware that encrypts or locks access to data or systems and demands payment in exchange for restoring access.

Social Engineering

Attacks that exploit human behavior by using personal and business context to build trust and persuade recipients to take action.

Spam

While spam can take many forms, email-based attacks often involve malware such as spyware and ransomware.

Spoofing

When an attacker forges the sender address of an email to make it appear as though it comes from a trusted source.

Vendor Compromise

Targets an entire supply chain and uses stolen information to defraud vendors, business partners, and customers.

Email Security Best Practices

To keep inbound and outbound emails protected from security threats including phishing and data loss, a robust policy must be determined. For email security best practices, follow these six simple steps: 

Compliance regulations require protecting sensitive data like PII, payment info, and medical records. A solution that detects and removes unauthorized sensitive data in emails, and encrypts approved data, helps prevent accidental exposure and protects the organization.

The right email security solution needs to prevent malware, spyware, ransomware, BEC emails, unwanted data acquisition, and unnecessary file types from reaching inboxes.

An easy-to-deploy, monitor, and manage email security solution helps enforce policy without overburdening IT, email administrators, or messaging teams. Features like centralized threat management and employee self-service quarantine lists improve efficiency and free IT teams to focus on other priorities.

Anti-malware solutions are effective against known threats, but they may not stop new viruses before vulnerabilities are identified. Email security solutions that filter and analyze message content and attachments, and sanitize evasive threats, help close this gap.

To support compliance, email security solutions should offer a range of easy-to-use, policy-based encryption options, including TLS, PKI technologies such as S/MIME or PGP, web portals, and password-protected messages.

Visibility into email activity and comprehensive reporting are important for defining and enforcing policy. Email security solutions that provide detailed audit trails help IT teams investigate potential breaches, while those that export data to SIEM systems give organizations a 360-degree view of data flowing in and out of the organization.

Fortra Email Security & Anti-Phishing Solutions

Protect your emails, brand, and data from advanced email threats, including phishing attacks, insider threats, and accidental data loss, without disrupting business operations. Discover how Fortra’s email security and brand protection solutions can strengthen your organization’s defenses.

Domain Protection

A robust DMARC authentication and monitoring solution helps stop phishing by automating email authentication and enforcement, protecting customers from cyberattacks. In doing so, it helps preserve brand identity and improve digital engagement over time.

Email Security Services Use Cases

Cloud-based email security services provide real-time protection against advanced email threats, including phishing, malware, and BEC, by intercepting attacks before they reach user inboxes. Fortra offers a range of solutions designed to thwart inbox attackers and address these threats. As a result, we help clients block malicious inbound email campaigns in the following ways:

Avoid Executive Spoofing and Brand Abuse

Using Fortra’s Cloud Email Protection, this Fortune 100 company was able to overcome instances of executive spoofing and brand abuse. With a granular email gateway, they significantly reduced email threats, implemented metric-driven defenses, and saved their security operations center (SOCs) hours of time.

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Maintain GDPR Compliance

Fortra has been the trusted security provider for this global banking institution for over two decades, delivering long-term reliability and partnership. Fortra Email Security streamlines GDPR compliance through automated encryption, centralized management, and easy deployment, while supporting TLS and other advanced encryption protocols to ensure secure, compliant communications across the enterprise.

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Close Security Gaps

Fortra DMARC Protection was selected over competing solutions to help this pharmaceutical company rapidly address a critical security gap under a tight deadline. Despite a six-month project timeline, implementation was successfully completed in just five months, accelerating protection and strengthening email security ahead of schedule.

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