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EMAIL SECURITY SOLUTIONS

November 18, 2024

Prepared & delivered by: Emmanuel Olaosebikan


EMAIL SECURITY DEFINITION

Email security is a term for describing different procedures and techniques for
protecting email accounts, content, and communication against unauthorized
access, loss or compromise. Email is often used to spread malware, spam and
phishing attacks.

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WHAT DOES EMAIL SECURITY INVOLVE?

The three main principles of information security involve


‒ Maintaining the confidentiality,
‒ Integrity, and
‒ Availability of information resources.
Weakness in any one of these three key areas will undermine the security posture
of an email system and open the door to exploitation,

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HOW TO SECURE YOUR EMAIL

• Do not store your email password on the


web browsers.
• Ensure your password strength is 100
percent
• Clearing of web browser history and cache
• Make use of private browsing.

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CHALLENGES OF EMAIL SECURITY
‒ Zero-Day Malware: Many email security solutions rely upon signature-based
detection of malware. This will not be able to identify and block zero-day attacks
before they infect the corporate network.
‒ Social Engineering and BEC: Some phishing emails don’t carry any malicious
content like phishing links or attached malware. Instead, they trick the user into
taking an action, like sending money to a certain bank account. Email security
solutions looking only for malware or phishing links will completely miss these
attacks.
‒ Employee Negligence: An organization’s employees’ poor data and email security
can be as damaging as an attack by a cybercriminal. If sensitive data is shared via
email or cloud-based solutions to an unauthorized party, it may be leaked and
accessible to cybercriminals. A data loss prevention solution is an essential part of
email security.

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EMAIL SECURITY TOOLS

 Secure Email Gateway:


This applies a dynamic, multi-layered
approach to the analysis of inbound,
outbound, and internal emails. From
higher level inspections such as DNS
authentication, including
SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and spam or virus
protection to highly sophisticated checks
like static file analysis and sandboxing, this
comprehensive service goes well beyond
just cloud-based anti-virus and anti-spam
protections.

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EMAIL SECURITY TOOLS

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EMAIL SECURITY TOOLS

 Email Encryption solution:


It reduces the risks associated with regulatory violations, data loss and corporate
policy violations while enabling essential business communications.

Steps to encrypt email on outlook:

1.Under the File menu, select Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings.
2.In the left pane, select Email Security.
3.Under Encrypted email, choose Settings.
4.Under Certificates and Algorithms, click Choose and select the S/MIME
certificate.

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BENEFIT OF EMAIL SECURITY TOOLS

• Defends against the risk of spear-phishing and advanced threats in email.


• Blocks spam & viruses.
• Protects employees against impersonation attacks that spoof a trusted sender.
• Neutralizes threats from malware attachments and malicious URLs.
• Removes the graymail burden for end users.
• Enables automated email encryption and secure message delivery.
• Enhances the user experience through services embedded in Outlook and
delivered via a mobile application and a customer-specific web portal.
• Improves users’ security awareness.
• Eliminates the need to manage on-premises email security software and
hardware.
• Detects and blocks attacks from both external and internal threat actors.

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CONCLUSION

No doubt, innovation in IT and the internet has eased our lives, but there are
indeed more harms lurking in the web world than we can imagine. Despite
preventive measures available to tackle cyber crime, cyber criminals are finding
new ways to take advantages of businesses system vulnerabilities.
Email is the primary method used to initiate an advanced attack.
Secure email gateway with advanced email protection can detect
threats, because the detection engines inspect suspicious email
traffic to identify attacks that evade traditional signature- and
policy-based defences.

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REFERENCES

• Security in Computing by Charles P. Pfleger.


• https://image.slidesharecdn.com/emailsecurity-160101193904/95/email-security-netwroking-5-638.jp
g?cb=1503080912
• www.purdue.edu/decurepurdue/docs/training/using_secure_email.pdf
• https://40north.wordpress.com/category/how-to/secure-email/
• https://www.proofpoint.com/us/glossary/email-security

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