Email Phishing: Protect Your Organization

Email phishing remains one of the most prevalent cybersecurity attack methods leading to data breaches. 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report From Verizon. It’s everywhere and it doesn’t discriminate. Organizations, big and small, must remain vigilant. While user training and awareness are integral to reducing email phishing incidents, having a best-in-class email protection solution is essential.

The State of Email Phishing

While cybercriminals are constantly changing their phishing tactics to attract more victims, we’re doing everything we can to help administrators and users deflect and prevent these attacks. As they become more sophisticated, so must the tools and practices to detect them. Ensuring your employees are cybersecurity conscious is just as important as the defensive approaches you take to reduce the number of phishing emails that actually make it into your network. So, what does optimal email protection look like? And how easy is it to implement?

Security technology and security awareness protect your business

recent Ryan Barrett’s VideosIntermedia’s senior vice president emphasized how Intermedia approaches security issues and the role of security technology as a partnership with its customers. Advanced Email Protection extends the protection of email services and helps users identify and avoid potential phishing and malware threats.

Advanced email protection solutions include:

• Policy-based spam and malware blocking capabilities allow administrators to create flexible policies and use granular filtering from a simple security dashboard.
• Anti-phishing and anti-spoofing protection eliminates external threats, including impersonating trusted internal or known external senders.
• Malicious link protection that detects and eliminates suspicious links (LinkSafe™ Click Point Protection) and protects against links that are designed to pass initial inspection but later become threats (LinkSafe Real-time URL Scanning)
• Outbound scanning to prevent the spread of malware, malicious links, and spam
• Marketing (greymail) management, marking potential spam and prioritizing incoming mail

Our solutions are easy to configure. We take care of the state-of-the-art backend, and you simply use the control panel to enable the security policies you want.

A tiered approach meets accuracy requirements

The driving force behind Intermedia’s email protection strategy is to provide the highest possible accuracy. Accuracy means correctly classifying which emails should go into your inbox and which should be quarantined.

Alex Smith, Vice President of Product Security and Analytics and an expert in email protection, shares Intermedia’s approach to email phishing prevention. “Our email protection solution is a layered approach that uses the best engines to detect potentially dangerous emails,” says Alex.

The key differentiator of our email protection service is that we use multiple engines with different detection methods. This mix and match allows for more accurate and reliable results. You can think of it as each engine checking the work of the others. This “group” assessment gives a unified score on the effectiveness of the email with a near-zero false positive rate. “By layering our defenses, we have high confidence in our classifications. That’s the benefit of a multi-engine approach, and we’re also able to introduce new engines as they become promising,” adds Alex.

These advanced email protection features are available for Microsoft 365. It’s a valuable add-on that strengthens your defenses against email phishing.

Protect your users: Email security checklist

We’re here to help you protect your network from email phishing. Here are nine easy ways to: Phishing Guide.

1. Pay attention to highly urgent requests that require quick action.
2. If an offer seems too good to be true, it probably is.
3. Never give out personal or financial information via email or text message.
4. Think about whether you initiated this action.
5. Do not click on links in messages that contain spelling errors.

Intermedia Security Toolkit: Resources for You

To help you better understand security and email protection, we have developed the Intermedia Security Toolkit. Security Toolkityou can find valuable information, including a security checklist that suggests best practices for protecting yourself from cybersecurity attacks. You can also find data sheets and white papers to help you decide which security solutions are right for you, helping you protect your business.

Craig Woods is Director of Product Marketing at Intermedia.