To keep inbound and outbound emails protected from security threats including phishing and data loss, a robust policy must be determined. For email security best practices, follow these six simple steps:
- Determine what data needs protection: A solution that can detect and remove unauthorized sensitive data from incoming and outgoing emails, and automatically encrypt any authorized data, will protect employees and the organization if sensitive data is incorrectly sent or received.
- Identify cyber threats: The right email security solution needs to prevent malware, spyware, ransomware, BEC (phishing) emails, unwanted data acquisition, and unnecessary file types from reaching inboxes.
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- Establish a robust and sustainable email security policy: An email security solution that’s easy to deploy, monitor, and manage will help support and enforce a policy in a way that doesn’t overburden the IT department, email administrators, or messaging teams.
- Close the zero-hour window: Anti-malware solutions are great for defending against known dangers. But what happens if a brand-new virus tries to enter a network before security loopholes have been identified? Email security solutions that can filter and analyze the content of messages and attachments and sanitize these evasive threats will help close this vulnerability.
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- Encrypt sensitive data: To aid compliance, email security solutions need a range of easy-to-use policy-based encryption options including TLS, PKI technologies such as S/MIME or PGP, Web-portal, or password-protected messages.
- Monitor traffic behaviour and performance: Visibility of emails and comprehensive reporting are important when determining and enforcing policy. Email security solutions that provide detailed audit trails help IT teams investigate potential breaches. Those that export data to SIEM systems allow organizations to get a 360-degree view of the data flowing in and out of the organization.
Trusting your inbox means trusting the emails inside it. At ActivEdge, we help secure the very foundation of digital communications with our Trusted Email Identity solutions. From email authentication to business email compromise detection, Our email security solution frees employees, customers, and business partners from the stress and uncertainty that a message in their inbox may be from a cybercriminal looking to profit from or exploit them.
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