A Fast Growing Threat
Domain and Email Spoofing function as masks for scammers, allowing them to bypass both email servers that filter out dubious senders and users who miss the look-alike domains. Spoofed email and domains generally have low success rates, but the volume of spoofing attacks that now take place – particularly in multi-layered phishing attacks or Business Email Compromise Scams – mean that preventing spoofing attacks is a growing need for the security of today’s businesses.
It Might Look the Same to You, But Not to Our Filters
Vircom’s email security solutions incorporate a filtering layer to detect highly targeted spoofed emails that go undetected by effective IP filtering engines. Vircom’s targeted threat protection will detect those tricky emails that look legitimate but are not quite the same: e.g.“DolIarama.com” instead of “Dollarama.com” – here, the “l” is replaced with a capital “i”. Our solutions can catch these threats through a variety of means.
Prevent Human Error Due to Email Spoofing
One of the greatest challenges in email and cyber security is human error. Way too many of the employees in your (or your client’s) company are clicking links or opening files out of curiosity. With the spoofed email, it’s almost imperceptible. Vircom provides Email Authentication, targeted phishing protection, Anti-Spam and Malware, and URL Defense to ensure email spoofing protection with multiple layers of security for your organizations’ inboxes.
URL Defense
Malicious URLs are an increasingly significant email threat. Ransomware and Phishing messages both often leverage malicious links to either distribute malware or illegitimately obtain credentials. Furthermore, these URLs now often pass edge security service scans, only becoming malicious after a few clicks following delivery. Proofpoint Essentials and modusCloud’s URL Defense rewrites every email URL to ensure time-of-click scanning, preventing malicious URLs from affecting your organization if an email or domain is successfully spoofed.
Targeted Phishing Protection
Targeted Phishing Protection is crucial to prevent spoofing attacks. Highly targeted attacks increasingly use social engineering to gain the data or other access they seek. Where most phishing attacks are broad-based to take advantage of as many users as possible, targeted phishing is driven by research, often appears to come from someone the victim knows or has researched, and is sent in low volumes, evading most traditional spam IP filtering engines.
DMARC, DKIM, SPF
Our products include email authentication mechanisms such as DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) and SPF (Sender Policy Framework) to help prevent spoofing of your domain. Our OnDMARC offering also authenticates against DMARC (Domain-based Messaging Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) records, an important step in protecting domains and company brands from spoofing.
