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BEC: Why This Basic Threat Is Difficult to Detect

Fri, 12/01/2023
Revenue lost to payment fraud saw an increase in every major global region from 2021 to 2022, and odds are your organization is still seeing email impersonation threats in inboxes. But why? This article provides insights on Business Email Compromise to help you understand just why these threats are so effective for cybercriminals.
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Machine Learning Models in Cloud Email Protection

Traditional email security products struggle to detect email impersonation threats such as Business Email Compromise (BEC) and spear phishing campaigns. These threats consistently bypass defenses that rely on signatures and policies like Secure Email Gateways and native-cloud email filters. This guide breaks down how Fortra uses advanced data science, including machine learning models, to find and mitigate attacks that slip past traditional email defenses.
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Business Email Compromise
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99% of User-Related Threats Are Email Impersonation Attempts

Thu, 06/22/2023
Threats in corporate inboxes hit new highs with a quarter of all reported emails classified as malicious or untrustworthy. 99% of these threats were email impersonation threats, such as BEC and credential theft lures, that lack attachments or URLs delivering malware payloads. Cybercriminals continue to bypass traditional email security tools and reach end users by impersonating individuals,...
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DMARC Revisited: Email Authentication in 2024

Implementing DMARC is one of the simplest ways to prevent email spoofing and ensure consistent email deliverability. Agari DMARC Protection will lead you through a safe and efficient DMARC implementation with features that allow you to: Catalogue and authenticate all legitimate senders–both 3rd-party and internal Navigate past common authentication pitfalls Comply with today’s major email...
Advanced Email Threats
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
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QR Codes That Aren't Cool Webinar

Threat adversaries have pivoted their credential phishing and BEC tactics in order to bypass security stacks. In this video, Fortra’s Advanced Email Security expert, Dr. Steve Jeffery, discusses how the QR code has become the carrier of choice for delivering payloads via email and what your organization needs to put in place to stop them. You’ll learn: How human and machine mitigations help...
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Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
On-Demand Webinar

Is Microsoft Email Security Enough in 2024?

As Microsoft’s security capabilities continue to evolve, many organizations are questioning how much they should rely on Microsoft for their email security needs. Watch this webinar to hear Fortra experts discuss enterprise email security requirements and how Microsoft fits into the equation and where it falls short, along with: How to evaluate Microsoft’s role in your email security stack ...
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Business Email Compromise
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Effective Strategies for Protecting Against BEC

While BEC is incredibly simple and effective, it is not unstoppable. Organizations need to go beyond traditional email security measures to detect, block, and prevent email impersonations. Learn what steps need to be taken in order to combat BEC and protect your organization from this popular attack.
Advanced Email Threats
Business Email Compromise
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How Data Classification Helps Organizations Maintain a Strong Data Security Posture

Mon, 02/06/2023
The rise of globally dispersed workforces and new work from home requirements are placing extraordinary pressure on every organization’s cybersecurity. And wherever there is upheaval, so cyber criminals thrive. Alongside the devastating health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, we have also seen an escalation in cyber-attacks. A recent CISO/CIO survey, looking at cybersecurity...
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Five Ways to Secure Data Within the Defense Supply Chain

Mon, 02/06/2023
Unsurprisingly the defense industry requires the most secure information sharing environment in the world, but what implications does this have for ensuring the effective mitigation of cyber risks? There is something of a paradox between the need for complete information governance in the defense sector and the rise of IoT, BYOD, cloud computing and the democratization of data in today’s blurred...
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Prevent Supply Chain Cybersecurity Attacks with Safer Data Sharing

Mon, 02/06/2023
When considering cybersecurity policies and risk management, protection from phishing, ransomware, and other Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are usually top of mind. Data loss protection usually makes the list as well. However, one area of risk that can be overlooked is supply chain cybersecurity attacks. Trusted partners are vital to organizations but the cyber risks they pose can be just as...
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Stop Cyber Attacks Before They Start: Data Harvesting and Targeting

Mon, 02/06/2023
The Greek philosopher Plato wrote that “the beginning is the most important part of the work.” The great American statesman, scientist, and philosopher Benjamin Franklin similarly emphasized the importance of planning when he stated that “by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”It is unfortunate that many cybercriminals heed their advice today. The number of threats continues to increase...
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The Not-So-Hidden Dangers of Hidden Data

Fri, 02/03/2023
Odds are, files and documents in your organization are not sitting in a folder on a desk or in a filing cabinet in the office. On the contrary, they are sitting on the cloud or computer desktop, and they are being transferred over email. The convenience of sending documents quickly with a few clicks has transformed the speed of business. But, like all things digital, convenience comes with risks....
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Gone Phishing: What’s the Best Way to Educate Staff on Security?

Fri, 02/03/2023
How do you work out the weakest link in your team? Who is that employee most likely to fall prey to the socially engineered scams that are making billions of pounds for cyber criminals on the black market?Pertinent questions in the aftermath of the recent Kaspersky Lab report that revealed more than 100 banks, financial institutions and e-payment systems in over 30 countries had been targeted by...
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Cybersecurity

Fri, 02/03/2023
Knowing what your employees are up to, enables you to strengthen your security policies. We all make mistakes at work from time to time. And sometimes we do things we know we shouldn’t. In the fast paced modern world, it’s easy enough to send an email to the wrong person or end up taking company information home. Often the consequences will be a bit of embarrassment, but every now and again they...
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Do You Have a Sensitive Data Protection Checklist?
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Do You Have a Sensitive Data Protection Checklist?

Fri, 02/03/2023
Data breaches and data loss, including the loss of sensitive information, are scary scenarios, and while no one can guarantee a cyberattack will not happen, there are ways to protect your organization’s data. We take a look at the top five tips for protecting your sensitive data.
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Phishing with Invisible Ink

Fri, 02/03/2023
You might remember as a child, there was a revelation…invisible ink. Stepping forward to today, there is now a new type of phishing which uses invisible ink, or as it’s also called, ‘zero font’, as a means to beat the spam and phishing filters. Anti-spam / phishing filters work in several different ways; they look for specific words or phrases and there is then a statistical element. If there are 100,000 instances of the same message, it’s probably spam.
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Best Practice Steps for Safe Data Sharing

Fri, 02/03/2023
Digital data is everywhere, you only have to look at how much data is transmitted over the internet on a weekly, daily, hourly, or even second-by-second basis to understand just how much data is being shared.