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Fortra Advanced Email Security Solutions

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.
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A Window on Email Security

This white paper takes an expansive look at the hidden threats lurking around email inboxes, and how layered email security with a clear understanding of goals can keep your organization better protected.
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How to Protect Against Advanced Email Threats

Unfortunately, the bad news about data breaches, cybersecurity scams, and email attacks is constant and the numbers are more staggering with each year. Learn which steps to take now to protect your organization’s email ecosystem, such as collecting threat intelligence, mitigating against brand impersonation, and training your employees on security awareness, all while maintaining compliance.
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DKIM vs. SPF Email Standards: Do I Need Them Both?

When it comes to email authentication standards, should you use DKIM, SPF, or both? We’re going to cover these terms, when you should use them, what they do—and how best to protect your email domains. Is it Either/Or—or Both? Should the battle really be SPF vs. DKIM? While not mandatory, it’s highly recommended to use both SPF and DKIM to protect your email domains from...
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DKIM Guide: How to Set Up the Email Standard Step by Step

In this DKIM setup guide, we’ll walk you through the steps on how to set up DKIM correctly, test it, avoid common pitfalls, and fix common mistakes. In case you’re new to DKIM, or DomainKeys Identified Mail, we’ll start with a high-level overview before getting to the step-by-step instructions, but you can first look up your DKIM record here.  Image ...
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What Is Whaling Phishing & How Does It Work?

“Whaling” phishing fraud attacks target the C-suite of a company which creates high risk of extremely sensitive, mission-critical data being stolen and exposed. Fortunately, protecting the organization from these attacks is possible. Whaling phishing is a type of phishing attack targeting larger, high-value targets, which is why it's called "Whaling." Attackers themselves...
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How to Run Simulated Phishing Campaigns

Here's how to run a simulated phishing campaign to test and train your employees before they receive an actual phishing email.  What is a Phishing Campaign? To be clear, when we say “phishing campaign,” we’re not referring to malicious, black-hat phishing campaigns. A simulated phishing campaign is part of an internal training program to raise employee awareness about real...
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The “i'’s” Have It: How BEC Scammers Validate New Targets with Blank Emails

Have you ever received a blank email from someone you don’t know? If you have, it may have been from a cybercriminal making sure your email account is legitimate prior to a Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack. Agari and PhishLabs define BEC as any response-based spear phishing attack involving the impersonation of a trusted party to trick victims into making an unauthorized...
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Simplifying DMARC Email Authentication with Agari DMARC Protection

In this webinar, discover how Agari DMARC Protection automates and simplifies DMARC email authentication so you can get to policy=reject faster. You will gain valuable insights, such as: The challenge and limits of DMARC. The benefits of hosted DMARC, BIMI, SPF, and DKIM records. How automated discovery helps quickly identify email senders. Ways to quickly investigate...
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Protecting Remote Employees from Phishing and BEC Attacks

Email is even more crucial as a collaboration tool while we are all working from home and taking other precautions to stay safe and healthy.  Hackers, cybercriminals, and other bad actors are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic for their own personal gain, and it’s your job to ensure your workforce is protected from harm. How do you enable the productivity of your now remote...
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Anatomy of a Compromised Email Account

Using active defense techniques, Agari planted credentials into more than 8,000 phishing sites impersonating enterprise applications, then monitored these accounts to see when and how each compromised account was accessed. Through our analysis, we gained unique insights into what cybercriminals do with compromised email accounts. Watch this webinar to hear answers to important...
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What is Account Takeover?

  Transcript   Account takeover is a type of attack technique where a cybercriminal will initially compromise an email account, and then use that legitimate email account to launch subsequent attacks such as business email compromise, and spear phishing. Agari stops email account takeover by scrutinizing the sender of the email sent to the...
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What is Spear Phishing?

VP Channel Marketing, Mandeep Khera, discusses why traditional security controls cannot stop modern spear phishing attacks.
On-Demand Webinar

Silent Starling and the Emergence of VEC

Silent Starling is a newly discovered cybercriminal group comprised of Nigerian cybercriminals, intent on scamming as much as they can from their victims through a new attack type named vendor email compromise (VEC). Watch this webinar to learn: What VEC is and how it differs from other major attacks Why VEC is the largest threat for your supply chain Which of your...
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How and Why COVID-19 is Being Used for BEC and Phishing Attacks

Phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks always take advantage of natural disasters and personal misfortune to target even the most vulnerable among us. This time is no different as we are all experiencing the COVID-19 outbreak, but the tactics can be spotted and defeated. In this webinar Crane Hassold, Agari's former Senior Director of Threat Research, provides...
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Scarlet Widow Part 1: Breaking Hearts for Profit

Table of Contents Who is Scarlet Widow? Femmes Fictionale and Counterfeit Romeos The Long Con: Making Moves for Money Starry Eyes for Starling Michael Up Close and Personal: The Case of "Robert Blackwell" ...