Staying ahead of the cybersecurity game with Red Sift

The ubiquity of emails makes senders and receivers inclined to cybercrime. Red Sift, a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association, has developed software program to assist organisations to guard themselves in opposition to cybercrime. 

“Almost 15 years in the past the International Network Working Group formally labelled Simple Mail Transfer Protocol – or e mail as you and I might name it – as ‘inherently insecure’,” says Chuck Swenberg, vice chairman of technique at Red Sift. “The group mentioned that anybody may impersonate a site and use it to ship fraudulent emails pretending to be the area proprietor. And that is borne out in the scale and breadth of enterprise e mail compromise (BEC) assaults we’re seeing.” 

As a outcome of this, the conventional means of Secure Email Gateways  are now not efficient for enterprise safety. Therefore, attackers have more and more developed techniques for e mail impersonation and scams.  

In order to cut back threat, companies first want to vary the approach they view and perceive e mail threats.  

“Language is a giant barrier in tackling cybersecurity – individuals wish to tightly outline or use new phrases to speak about seemingly completely different issues despite the fact that they often have the similar underlying subject,” says Swenberg. “That being the reality unsecured e mail is the chosen assault vector. All of the following are both cyberattacks carried out over e mail, or deployed through e mail: malware, ransomware, BEC, phishing, provide chain compromise and the latest child on the block, lookalike and area impersonation.” 

Ultimately, if an organisation can safe its e mail and domains in opposition to impersonation, it will possibly remedy rather a lot of issues without delay. 

According to Swenberg, the important defences that organisations ought to put in place to face up to each day assaults embody safe cloud-based e mail internet hosting, a domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance (DMARC) coverage, two-factor authentications, password administration, and spam detection and file scanning.  

To lengthen menace safety, Red Sift additionally recommends model indicators for message identification (BIMI) certification to show your verified emblem on each e mail you ship. It additionally advises spoof area recognition, intrusion detection software program, and safety orchestration, automation and response system (SOAR) measures for superior e mail safety.  

Red Sift is enhancing e mail safety for corporations. “We work seamlessly with Microsoft 365 to supply a purpose-built suite of cybersecurity options that work to dam outbound phishing assaults, analyse the safety of inbound communication for company-wide e mail threats, and monitor and take down lookalike or cousin domains,” says Swenberg. With this, organisations can proceed to ship and obtain emails with confidence and safety. 

This article was initially printed in the Summer 2022 issue of Technology Record. To get future points delivered on to your inbox, sign up for a free subscription.

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