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Zero-Day Threats: How Cloud Email Security Can Mitigate Risks

By Ravisha Chugh on Mon, 11/25/2024
By Q3 2024, organizations encountered credential theft in nearly 50% of all email security threats they handled, while malware grew by 4% which is the highest amount of volume since Q1. Learn how cloud-based solutions can help detect and prevent zero-day attacks like malware and more.
Advanced Email Threats
Business Email Compromise
Ransomware
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
Email Security
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Understanding DMARC Reports

By Mike Jones on Mon, 10/07/2024
Why is it so important to analyze DMARC reports? Well, it makes it so organizations can detect malicious emails and prioritize source configuration, all of which is crucial for maintaining their email security.
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
SPF
DKIM
Email Security
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The Royal & BlackCat Ransomware: What you Need to Know

Thu, 07/06/2023
The US healthcare sector continues to be aggressively targeted by ransomware operators. Royal and BlackCat are two of the more recent – and highly sophisticated – ransomware threats. These two new flavors of ransomware pose serious potential impacts on the healthcare sector, but there are appropriate mitigation and defense strategies that organizations can take to protect against them. What is...
Advanced Email Threats
Ransomware
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What is the Relationship Between Ransomware and Phishing?

Thu, 03/30/2023
Ransomware and phishing are usually put in two separate categories when cyberattack methodologies are discussed. However, ransomware operators are increasingly leveraging phishing tactics to deploy their malicious payloads, and the potential for compromise is exponentiating as a result. Ransomware and Phishing - a match made in heaven Phishing is the number one delivery vehicle for ransomware...
Advanced Email Threats
Ransomware
Social Engineering
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
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Emails Reported as Malicious Reach Four-Quarter High in Q3

Wed, 11/23/2022
The volume of malicious emails reported in corporate inboxes has reached a four-quarter high, according to the latest data from Fortra's PhishLabs.
Advanced Email Threats
Business Email Compromise
Data Breach
Ransomware
Social Engineering
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DKIM vs. SPF Email Standards: Do I Need Them Both?

Thu, 10/20/2022
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 DKIM vs. SPF—or BOTH?Should the battle really be DKIM vs. SPF? While not mandatory, it’s highly recommended to use both SPF and DKIM to protect your email domains from spoofing attacks and fraud...
DMARC Email Authentication
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On-Demand Webinar

Simplifying DMARC Email Authentication with Agari DMARC Protection

By Brent Sleeper
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 unknown senders. Tips...
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DKIM
Video

What is Ransomware?

Tue, 07/26/2022
window._wq = window._wq || []; _wq.push({ id: "ljet6bijbk", options: { preload: "auto" } }); Transcript Ransomware really is continuing to be that go-to attack for attackers, and it's really one of the most effective ways that they have to extort businesses and compromise user data. How does ransomware work? Well, typically, it's delivered via infected...
Advanced Email Threats
Ransomware
Datasheet

Fortra Email Security Bundles Datasheet

Complete protection with maximum valueAdvanced email threats demand complete protection. This is because inefficiencies in combating phishing result in lost time and productivity for employees and internal SOC teams. Fortra Email Security makes it easy to deploy interoperable layers of defense that span the entire threat lifecycle from pre-delivery staging to post-delivery via an integrated...
Advanced Email Threats
Business Email Compromise
Data Breach
Domain Impersonation
Ransomware
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
DMARC Email Authentication
Email Data Loss Prevention
Phishing Simulation & Training
Triage and Response
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Agari Automation and Hosting Features

The Email Authentication ChallengeEmail 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 challenges along the way to...
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Datasheet

Encryption in Fortra Secure Email Gateway

The Clearswift Secure Email Gateway is a component of Fortra's technology for:TLSS/MIME / PGPPassword-protected Zip filesPortalWhat Is Encryption?Encryption, the bi-directional conversion of meaningful content to unintelligible content, is the single most powerful information security tool in the email security admin’s armory. On its own, it fulfills two of the three fundamental tenets of security...
Advanced Email Threats
Data Breach
Ransomware
Email Security
Encryption
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Protecting our Clients from Email Spoofing: Our DMARC Journey

Tue, 03/26/2019
This post originally appeared on the Armadillo Blog and has been lightly edited for clarity. Most organizations have been successful in blocking malicious emails targeted at their employees, at least to some extent. Various on-premise and cloud providers exist to take care of anti-spam, anti-virus, reputation scores, and advanced features such as sandboxing of executables.As a service provider...
DMARC Email Authentication
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DKIM
Video

Account Takeover: The Evolution of Advanced Cyberattacks

By Markus Jakobsson
Targeted email attacks continue to escalate as organizations deal with increasing numbers of phishing, spear phishing and ransomware attempts. But another attack vector—account takeovers—is affecting 44% of organizations and is posing a significant risk. Watch this webinar to learn how: These attacks lead to large-scale data breaches and financial losses; How organizations can identify...
Advanced Email Threats
Ransomware
Spear Phishing
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Don’t Let Your Customers Be Fooled By Cousin Domains

Tue, 12/15/2015
In the last five years, we’ve all become far too familiar with it – hackers spoofing a company’s domain and therefore tarnishing the brand, bad actors attempting to infect our computers with malware, and criminals sending millions of spam messages. As if this isn’t enough, now there is a whole group of people working to outsmart companies AND their customers by using cousin domains to fool...
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DMARC Deployment Tips & Tricks: PermError SPF

Tue, 09/09/2014
This is the start of a new ongoing series for us that gives you the tips and tricks you need for successful DMARC deployment.What does "PermError SPF Permanent Error: Too many DNS lookups" mean?There are several safeguards put in place with SPF. One of these is a limitation of DNS lookups to help ensure that you do not have timeout issues. SPF will evaluate only 10 DNS mechanism lookups in an SPF...
DMARC Email Authentication
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DMARC is Transformational

Thu, 07/03/2014
The Benefits of Monitor ModeWhen a technology exists that can tell you if and when your domains are being spoofed (and by who), why would you not use it?!What is DMARC?DMARC was created to address some fundamental problems with existing email authentication technologies (SPF and DKIM). It provides feedback about your email authentication implementation and gives ISPs (Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft,...
DMARC Email Authentication
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