Here’s a not-so-fun fact: 95% of organisations have Office 365 mailboxes that are harbouring malicious emails. Many of these socially engineered attacks can slip through your existing defences, landing in your users’ inboxes and leaving your organisation open to potential risks. Furthermore, viruses and phishing attempts can slip through your gateways and, if left undetected, can cause millions of dollars in loss of revenue.
This is why it’s vitally important for organisations to assess and understand their email security vulnerabilities, and ensure that you and your users are fully protected against hacking attempts.
Biggest threats to your email accounts:
There are many threats that could potentially compromise your email accounts, with the most prevalent being:
1. Business Email Compromise Attacks
A Business Email Compromise (or BEC) attack occurs when a scammer impersonates a high-level executive. They can then trick colleagues, customers and partners into transferring funds, participating in seemingly legitimate transactions, or disclosing sensitive data.
2. Phishing Attacks
Phishing is the practice of sending fake communications (most commonly emails) that seemingly come from reputable sources with the intention of tricking the receiver into supplying private, commercial or financial information or installing malware.
3. Malware Delivery
In email scams, malware is always hidden in malicious links and attachments that may look legitimate and reliable but will execute viruses on your devices once opened.
How to combat threats with an Email Threat Scanner
In conjunction with Barracuda, we are offering a free security assessment of your Office 365 environment. Using artificial intelligence and API integration with Office 365, Barracuda Email Threat scanner can quickly and efficiently discover email attacks currently sitting in your mailboxes.
What threats can Barracuda ETS identify?
ETS scans Office 365 environments to identify phishing and other cyber fraud threats that may already exist in your inbox. It allows you to identify:
- Spear phishing
- Business email compromise
- Conversation hijacking
- Brand and domain impersonation
- Extortion
- Scamming
- URL phishing
ETS also reviews high risk employees (those who may be receiving more attacks than others) and detailed threat insights that can be filtered based on individual threat types (such as phishing or BEC).
How does it work?
Contact us for a personalised email threat scanner link! Once we’ve provided you with the link, it takes less than a minute to set up, with no impact on your email performance. Once your scan is complete, we can review the results and discuss how to enhance your email security posture with additional user awareness training and advanced threat detection tools.
