Phishing, and especially email phishing, is the most common attack vector used by cybercriminals and attacks continue to increase year after year. The latest data suggests that around 1.2% of all emails are malicious, which equates to around 3.4 billion malicious emails a day. Threat actors use email to distribute malware, drive traffic to malicious sites to harvest credentials and perform a wide range of scams, including business email compromise, the costliest type of cybercrime, often resulting in millions in losses.
While there are many ways that businesses can be attacked and many steps that can be taken to improve security, ensuring your defenses against email attacks are up to scratch is the best way of improving your security posture. Fortunately, TitanHQ has three easy-to-implement solutions that can greatly improve your defenses against the growing email and phishing threat, all of which are available on a free trial so you can put them to the test to see the difference they make.
Block More Threats with an Advanced Email Filtering Service
SpamTitan is an advanced spam filtering service that is quick and easy to implement, provides exceptional protection against all forms of email attacks, and does not require a degree in cybersecurity to use and maintain. The ease of use of the solution is one of the reasons the solution is popular with businesses from small mom-and-pop stores to large enterprises.
The SpamTitan cloud-based anti-spam service provides cutting-edge protection through a barrage of front-end tests, AI and machine learning-powered detection, twin antivirus engines, and email sandboxing. Suspicious files are sent to the sandbox to be safely detonated and subjected to in-depth behavioral analysis, helping to detect and block zero-day malware threats. In independent tests by VirusBulletin in Q3 2024, SpamTitan was rated in joint first place for detection, sole first place in Q4 2024 with a 100% malware catch rate, 100% phishing catch rate, and a 99.98% spam catch rate, and in February 2024, SpamTitan achieved a perfect score across the board, blocking all threats in the test.
Provide Effective Security Awareness Training to Your Workforce
Technical safeguards will block the vast majority of email threats, but it is inevitable that some threats will reach their intended targets. All it takes is for one employee to respond to a phishing email for a company to suffer a costly data breach or ransomware attack. It is vital that human defenses are strengthened by providing comprehensive security awareness training. The most effective training programs run continuously, with employees given training regularly throughout the year. Only through regular training will you be able to develop a security culture, where employees are constantly looking for potential threats and are conditioned to report suspicious emails to the security team.
The SafeTitan security awareness platform includes an extensive library of enjoyable and engaging training modules on all aspects of security, with each module lasting no longer than 10 minutes for maximum engagement. The platform makes it easy to create training programs for the workforce, tailored for different roles in the organization, and automate those programs so they run continuously throughout the year. Training should be reinforced using phishing simulations, which can be easily created and automated through the SafeTitan platform. When employees fail a phishing simulation, relevant training is generated in real-time to ensure it is delivered when it is likely to have the maximum effect on changing employee behavior.
Improve Microsoft 365 Security with PhishTitan
PhishTitan is an advanced cloud-based anti-phishing solution for Microsoft 365 powered by the same engine behind the award-winning SpamTitan anti-spam service. The solution has been developed to be integrated seamlessly with Microsoft 365 to augment Microsoft’s EOP and Defender protections and catch the threats that these solutions often miss to give true defense-in-depth security. Like SpamTitan, PhishTitan adds layers of analysis and machine learning models to provide cutting-edge protection against phishing. PhishTitan scans all internal and external emails, rewrites URLs to detect links to malicious sites, automatically blocks phishing links in emails to prevent clicks, and provides time-of-click protection by inspecting and evaluating URLs in real-time to detect changes to the destination URL after the emails have been delivered.
PhishTitan adds banners to emails from external sources, helping to combat spoofing and alerting the recipient to take extra care, and also incorporates protection against QR code phishing – quishing – which is growing in prevalence and capable of defeating many email security solutions. The platform also includes an auto-remediation feature, allowing administrators to rapidly remediate threats from users’ inboxes, including cross-tenant features for detection and response by MSPs. One of the main complaints from Microsoft 365 users is the number of phishing emails that bypass defenses; however, with the additional layers of protection provided by PhishTitan, businesses will be better protected against phishing threats.
If you want to improve your defenses against email threats, give the TitanHQ team a call or take advantage of a free trial of TitanHQ solutions to put them to the test in your own environment.