While Microsoft offers tiers of security features, their email security capabilities may not be enough on their own. In this webinar, Fortra experts discuss possible shortcomings in Microsoft email security and how adding solutions to fill the gaps can protect better against advanced email threats.
Inside the Clearswift Secure Email Gateway appliance, there is a multi-layer Anti-Spam solution designed to deliver 99% detection with minimal false positives.
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The anti-spam feature detects messages as being spam, phishing attempts, or newsletters, and allows system administrators to configure policies to either block, sanitize...
Detect, Analyze & Mitigate Advanced Threats
Enterprises struggle to stop email threats from routinely reaching user inboxes, leading to Business Email Compromise (BEC) and ransomware attacks. While users become more adept at identifying suspicious emails and enterprises invest in increasingly sophisticated email security stacks, threat actors continue to deploy emails designed...
In this IT Security Wire article, cybersecurity experts Eric George and Tom Gorup, Vice President of Security Operations at Fortra’s Alert Logic, share their 2023 cybersecurity predictions.
Originally published in IT Security Wire
"PaaS (phishing-as-a-service) platforms simplify the creation and execution of credential theft phishing attacks which target the customers or...
Enterprises need comprehensive protection that spans the entire lifecycle of threats from the staging of email-borne threats outside your organization to active threats landing in the inbox. Fortra’s Advanced Email Security solutions do just this and can help you solve your toughest email security challenges.
It’s difficult to control your Social Security number in the wild. In his September contribution to Forbes Advisor, John Wilson discusses the most common scams involving Social Security numbers and provides 8 steps individuals can take to prevent identity fraud.
Originally published in Forbes Advisor:
“For too many of us, our SSNs are already in the hands of miscreants,...
In Cyber Protection Magazine’s Crucial Tech podcast, John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research, delves into the latest research from Agari and PhishLabs by Fortra.
In his guest essay for The Last Watchdog, Eric George, Director of Solutions Engineering at PhishLabs by, explains what ransomware is, who the high-stake threat actors are, and how organizations can defend themselves against ransomware attacks.
Originally published in The Last Watchdog
“Ransomware usually starts with a phishing email. An unsuspecting employee will open a...
Hybrid vishing (email-initiated voice phishing) attacks are on the rise. In this ZDNet article, John Wilson discusses the findings from the latest Agari and PhishLabs research and explains what organizations can do to help prevent hybrid vishing attacks.
Originally published in ZDNet.com
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“These emails are particularly adept at getting past attack controls because...
Ransomware threats can change daily, making consumers and businesses more vulnerable than ever. Names like Angler malvertising, Locky ransomware and Angler Exploit Kit frequently crop up in the news, despite law enforcement’s best efforts to contain them.
Simply put, malware is popular because it’s successful. Cyber criminals make an estimated 1,425% ROI for exploit kit and...
Understanding The Threats
Today’s modern identity-based email attacks exploit the identity of trusted colleagues and brands. However, each varies in the tactics and techniques used. Understanding the differences will be critical in being able to effectively and accurately stop these attacks.
Customer Phishing: Cybercriminals use brand impersonation techniques such as domain...
Prevent, Detect & Disrupt Phishing with an Integrated Solution from Agari & PhishLabs
Threat actors impersonate legitimate brands to steal account holder credentials, leading to increased fraud and loss of customer trust. As phishing continues to rise, many organizations find themselves in need of more proactive protection that can deliver the email authentication, threat...
Threats will persist if SOC teams are overloaded and unprepared to review reported emails and provide feedback, especially if they’re understaffed. Fortra’s Training and Response Bundle stops email threats by delivering world-class Security Awareness Training and Integrated Response, a managed service that ensures advanced email threats are identified, easily reported, and quickly mitigated.
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Business Challenge
Agari’s cloud-based security solutions allow you to stop and respond to BEC and phishing attacks on your employees and protect your customers from phishing attacks. Agari’s Customer Enablement and Support organization is committed to the success of our customers and works to ensure Agari customers achieve...
While email security solutions are designed to catch malicious emails before they reach user inboxes, no solution discovers every single malicious email 100% of the time. There is an ever-increasing number of new attacks, and cybercriminals are getting smarter.
As new sources of threat intelligence or new social engineering attacks are discovered from SOC analyst investigation...
The Email Authentication Challenge
Email is the #1 way attackers target an organization’s customers and email ecosystem. DMARC authentication, specifically with an enforcement policy of Reject, is the single most effective way to close this vulnerability inherent to email. While the premise of authentication is straightforward, organizations can encounter roadblocks and...
Why Integrated Email Threat Data Matters
Email is a primary vector for attacks on your business today—and email threats are evolving faster than ever. But actionable data about email attacks is often inaccessible to time-strapped security operations and incident response teams. That disconnect leaves your business vulnerable and unable to mitigate hidden email threats.
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AT A GLANCE
After reaching a DMARC enforcement policy, Agari DMARC Protection continues to provide immense value to customers.
BENEFITS
Improves customer trust by protecting your brand from being used in phishing attacks.
Decreases time to reject by automating implementation.
Maximizes marketing efficacy and improves email engagement with trusted communications.
Reduces...
FOSTER CITY, Calif. (July 7, 2020) -- Agari, the market share leader in phishing defense solutions for the enterprise, revealed today details of the threat actor group dubbed Cosmic Lynx, the first-ever reported Russian cybercriminal ring to conduct business email compromise (BEC) phishing scams. This is a historic shift to the global email threat landscape and portends new and...
Organizations are more likely to be breached today than ever before, as cybercriminals shift tactics once again, using account takeovers (ATOs) to launch targeted email attacks. In fact, a recent Osterman Research survey reported that one in five organizations fell victim to an ATO-based email attack within the past 12 months. Attackers know that trusted email is the most...