Glossary

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Email Archiving

A measure that helps customers safeguard their critical information found within email in order to protect their intellectual property and brand reputation, while ensuring compliance, legal discovery, and streamlined business efficiencies.

Email Continuity

A capability that offers continued access through a backup system so that emails can still be sent and received, even if there is a server outage or some discrepancy in operation (such as with Exchange).

Email Data Loss

The inadvertent loss or malicious leaking of data via email transmission, which can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information.

Email Header Data

The various components contained in the email header data, including the "From" sender display name and webmail address, date/time sent, To address, the subject line, local email prefix identifier, domain portion of email, and brand within the suffix.

Email Security

The technology and policies designed to protect email content and communication from cyber threat attacks by leveraging solutions that can universally operate in cloud, on-premise, and hybrid email environments.

Email Spoofing

One of the most common forms of identity deception in cybercriminal activity and one of the easiest to execute, where threat actors impersonate domains by forging an email's sender address in phishing and spam attacks.

Encryption

One of the main ways to send secure email sent over the Internet so that they maintain confidentiality, message or attachment integrity, and non-repudiation when it comes to proving their security and adhering to the law.