Basic measures to protect e-mail

Our email inbox is the source of a large part of the cyber threats faced by companies. More than 94% of cyber-attacks come from the email inbox, with phishing being the attack vector.

Phishing has forced many companies not only to redefine authentication and certification processes, but also to try to prevent the effectiveness of these social engineering attacks at the point of origin: our email inbox. In this way, possible attacks such as the “whaling attack” or “CEO fraud” are prevented.

Challenges

Step 1: Securing authentication through protocols

DMARC

It takes advantage of the aforementioned SPF and DKIM, and can be seen as the recommended action to take when neither SPF nor DKIM confirms an email as legitimate.

Among the possible options is to choose between rejecting all mail or using an application for statistical control.

What else can we do to protect e-mail?

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This is based not only on the best practices recommended by Microsoft, but also on the extensive experience acquired in multiple projects of this type.

In addition, this assurance will serve as a basis for much more ambitious projects such as identity management, device management (MDM), and tagging or data leakage (DLP).

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