Blocking SendGrid email traffic isn't a realistic option for most businesses hit by a barrage of phishing attacks emanating from compromised accounts at the Twilio-owned email service provider in recent months. Instead, Agari leverages a strategic data modeling approach to neutralize the threat while enabling legitimate SendGrid-distributed emails to safely reach employee inboxes. More on that in...

For a growing number of email marketers, it may be "BIMI or bust." As of June 30, nearly 5,300 companies have adopted Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI), a new email standard for showcasing a brand's logo next to its email messages in recipient inboxes, with built-in protections against phishing-based brand spoofing.The tally reflects a 3.8X increase in the number of brands...

If you haven't deployed Domain-based Messaging Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) to protect your brand from being impersonated in phishing scams, there are pressing reasons to jump on it now. Without a doubt, these are extraordinary times for individuals and organizations alike as we've been forced to change the way we work, shop, play, and live seemingly overnight, and for far...

With marketers more dependent on digital channels, many may accelerate their tests of Google's AMP for Email technology in search of an edge. But without an email protocol called Domain-based Messaging Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), fraudsters could weaponize the trust customers expect from your brand for their own evil intentions and put consumers and businesses at risk. The...

Scams related to COVID-19 helped fuel a 65% increase in employee-reported phishing attacks during the first half of 2020, according to our mid-year Phishing Incident Response Survey of SOC professionals at 13 large organizations spanning a cross-section of industries. Even before the outbreak, phishing was implicated in nearly 7 in 10 corporate data breaches, prompting many organizations to arm...

Why are MFT solutions fast becoming an essential part of an organization’s cybersecurity strategy and what benefits do they bring?

The first half of 2020 saw 25 additional Fortune 500 companies adopt Domain-based Messaging, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC)—bringing the total to 20% of organizations within the index, according to our H2 2020 Email Fraud and Identity Deception Trends Video .Which is salutatory, to be sure. But it means 80% of the world's biggest companies haven't adopted the standard email authentication...

Find out how Lexical Expression Qualifiers can be used to eliminate the false positives typically associated with data loss prevention solutions.

“At some point, Russian and Eastern European cybercriminals are going to start thinking to themselves, ‘Why am I spending all of this time and money setting up infrastructure and hiring malware developers when I can just send someone an email, ask them to send me money, and they’ll do it.’”For more than a year, this is a line we have used over and over again, expecting that some of the world’s...

A new Total Economic Impact (TEI) Study from Forrester finds that Agari Phishing Defense™ (APD) delivered results 36% faster than competing solutions, and results in a 97% ROI in just three years.But it turns out that's just the warm-up act.TEI reports are designed to help organizations accurately evaluate potential IT initiatives. In this instance, we commissioned the study so Forrester analysts...

We live and work in an era with more collaboration than ever before. Organizational structures are flatter, the world is smaller, and it is commonplace to work together with colleagues, partners, customers, suppliers, and many other stakeholders on a wide variety of projects.Furthermore, technology has emerged that makes such collaboration easy. It is as straightforward to work on a PowerPoint...

Amid a troubling rise in zero-day phishing attacks, recent research suggests that some companies may be making an ill-advised shift away from blocking advanced email threats to responding to them post-delivery. If true, the capitulation couldn't come at a worse time. Since January, cybercriminals taking advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak have been targeting businesses and individuals with an...

Are you protecting your remote workers against an endless barrage of COVID-19 related phishing attacks by requiring 2-factor authentication (2FA) to log into employee email accounts? Smart move—just don't let it give you a false sense of security.

After barely registering a pulse last year, W2-based business email compromise (BEC) scams are back with a vengeance thanks to coronavirus-related business upheaval. With the 2019 tax filing deadline pushed back to July 15, 2020, and as much as 66% of all corporate employees working from home, operations for many companies have been anything but business as usual. Still we are surprised to see a...

New research suggests a lack of awareness of ransomware and cybersecurity best practices in the UK Public Sector leaves it vulnerable to further attacks.

At the heart of all Clearswift’s cybersecurity solutions, the Deep Content Inspection Engine is essentially a system for filtering content and applying intelligent rules.

The coronavirus pandemic is shining a spotlight on the importance of hosted Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) to prevent cybercriminals from hijacking an organization's domains to launch phishing attacks that put the public at risk. A case in point - the World Health Organization (WHO). The UN's international public health agency has been issuing warnings...

With billions of dollars in stimulus being earmarked for US companies and individuals reeling from the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, business email compromise (BEC) rings are angling for a piece of the pie. At the top of the menu: banks, lenders, and other financial services organizations chartered with managing key facets of this unprecedented distribution effort. But for an...

Since the beginning of February, we have seen more than a 3,000% increase in Coronavirus-themed phishing attacks targeting our customers. The spike in attacks is as logical as it is repugnant. With an estimated 75 million employees more reliant than ever on email during the largest "work-from-home experiment" in history, phishing scammers and other threat actors seem hellbent on exploiting...