Advanced Email Threats For Dummies, Cisco Special Edition
Use secure email threat defense
Use a comprehensive email security solution to detect quickly and respond effectively. Look for an email defense system that automatically and reliably does many of the things that you might wish users would do consistently, such as:- Assess the sender’s reputation
- Asses the reputation of the email’s source URL
- Scan content for concerning words and phrases
- Scan file attachments and analyze their reputation and content
- Spot and block spam
Optimize your defenses against major email threats
You can scan the horizon for current threats and note what threats are being blocked — or causing breaches — at your organization. You can then respond by working with your vendor; working with your email provider; training your security personnel and end users; educating upper management; and many more steps.Use AI to understand and categorize threats
You can use AI to identify patterns that serve as indicators of an attack. These patterns are often so subtle that attackers aren’t aware of the breadcrumbs they’re leaving as they put together attempts at exploits. AI can spot these patterns before the bad actors do.Use threat data to inform and expedite your response
Before a threat arrives, you can know:- What the recent patterns of threats look like
- The signatures left by different kinds of threats
- What attacks are leading to successful breaches
- The best response to each different kind of breach