Understanding Email Attachment Security
Cybercriminals frequently exploit email attachments to deliver malware, phishing scams, and ransomware attacks. Threat actors disguise malicious payloads in common file formats like PDFs, Word documents, and Excel spreadsheets, making them appear legitimate to unsuspecting users.These attachments can bypass basic security filters and exploit system vulnerabilities upon opening.
Advanced Email Security Solutions for Ransomware
Ransomware attacks frequently start with a single malicious attachment that, once opened, can encrypt an entire network within minutes. Traditional signature-based security tools often fail to detect evolving threats, as cybercriminals continuously modify their attack techniques.
Advanced email security solutions leverage Targeted Attack Protection (TAP), real-time threat intelligence, and dynamic malware analysis to detect and neutralize ransomware before it infiltrates a network. By analyzing billions of email messages daily, predictive analytics identify high-risk attachments and block them preemptively, safeguarding businesses from costly breaches.
Email Security Solutions for Attachments
Many phishing schemes rely on malicious email attachments to infiltrate a network. As most email servers automatically block malicious programs, attackers are hiding threats in email attachments. These attachments are packed with malware capable of planting a virus and are often used in spear-phishing attacks, to deliver banking Trojans, ransomware, and other malware.
To effectively protect against attachment-based attacks, organizations must adopt a multi-layered security approach. This includes Attachment Sandboxing, which detonates suspicious files in an isolated environment to detect hidden threats, and AI-driven malware detection, which identifies patterns associated with sophisticated cyberattacks. Email security solutions like Vircom’s Proofpoint-powered TAP analyze inbound and outbound attachments, flagging malicious content before it reaches end users. With cloud-based security architecture, businesses benefit from continuous updates on emerging threats, ensuring real-time protection against evolving malware-laden attachments.
Cost-Efficient…To Cybercriminals
Cybercriminals focus their resources on techniques and tools that deliver the greatest return on investment. Small to medium enterprises are often seen as easier targets because they are generally protected by less sophisticated software or by none at all. This can make targeting smaller enterprises with threats in the form of malicious email attachments more rewarding for Cybercriminals.
The Malicious Attachment Defense You Need
To protect against the threats of malicious email attachments, Vircom provides an industry leading email analysis solution for small to mid-sized enterprises with Attachment Defense that effectively blocks malicious software from gaining access to your business network. This protection also employs Attachment Sandboxing, which “detonates” every email attachment you receive in a test environment to ensure there’s no malicious intent.
Big Data and Cloud Architecture
Our cloud based architecture analyzes billions of messages a day, providing global visibility and early protection for emerging threats. We identify and block malicious attachments that would evade traditional security solutions through big data statistical models and predictive analysis of where threats will emerge. With the intelligence gathered from large enterprises worldwide, every business can access up to date protection via modusCloud or Proofpoint Essentials, while Attachment Sandboxing provides further case-by-case protection from targeted threats that arrive through email.
Dynamic Malware Analysis
Effective Malicious Attachment Defense requires strong malware protection, which is fundamental to Vircom’s solutions. Proofpoint Essentials incorporates an integrated layer of advanced Anti-Virus scanning and combines machine learning capabilities, ensuring that most attachments containing malware are quarantined from your recipients, while any malware that does make it through is neutralized by leading AV.
Targeted Attack Protection
Vircom leverages the advanced power of Targeted Attack Protection, to provide Attachment Defense to effectively detect malicious email attachments. Inbound and outbound messages that include attachments are analyzed using the intelligence gathered from analyzing billions of message daily. Messages that contain known malicious attachments can be blocked from delivery, even if they don’t contain known threats and may pass a signature-based scan.
