Due to the widespread use and often dependance of email in organisations, cybercriminals target email a number of ways from spam campaigns to elaborate phishing schemes, designed to elicit data or monetary fraud.

Email is simple to use and was never built with security in mind. Knowing this, cybercriminals prey on organisations with little employee training and weak email protection systems, by falling victim to scams, viruses,  ransomware and data theft.

The primary way to ensure an organisation does not fall victim is to train and enable their staff to be aware of these attacks, and to deploy a security solution that enhances your business email solution such as Exchange, Office 365 and Gsuite.

As user awareness through training and built-in anti-spam capabilities improved, so did the complexity of attacks employed by bad actors.  Organisations are exposed to Zero-day attacks and business email compromise, where criminals impersonate key personalities to get users to share sensitive information or even money transfers.

Most email solutions will have anti-spam tools that are efficient for simple email scanning but lack most features to prevent these advanced attacks.  Cisco Secure Email employs advanced mechanisms and layers of security to protect your organisation against these more complex and targeted attacks.

Business email compromise has seen a rapid rise over the past several years due to it proving to be an effective attack vector  compromising thousands of organisations and accounting for a loss of billions of dollars globally each year.  Add on to that the loss due to ransomware attacks spread via email such as WannaCry, SamSam and Ryuk and the numbers are truely staggering.

These attacks are not just aimed at government or large enterprises, they are aimed at individuals and businesses of all sizes as they are usually more effective in this area. This is because small to medium businesses have been found to have less resources or technical controls in place to combat or recover from a ransomware attack.

Over the last several years we have seen a rapid rise in the number attacks using ransomware and business email compromise.  Bad Actors aim to elicit information and money from organisations originating from a simple email. By investing in your email security, you are aiding in protecting your organisation from financial and intellectual losses.

Cisco Secure Email includes Cisco's Advanced Malware Protection to scan and detect any malicious software before it reaches your workforce.  Quarantine or Automate remediation at the touch of a button.

Cisco Secure Email also comes with Cisco Talos threat intelligence that analyses threats and over 600 billion emails globally per day ensuring that as a new threat is detected in the wild you are instantly protected.

Secure Email is a cloud based secure email gateway and is provided as part of a SaaS model.  No on-premise infrastructure is required for the deployment of the gateway.  it natively lives in front of your email provider of choice such as Office 365, Gsuite, Hybrid or On-Premise email solutions.

Deployment is relatively simple, we deploy the cloud instance of Cisco Secure Gateway and once complete there are some changes on your domain records and your email service provider.  No on-premise equipment or HW delivery is required.