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Sophos Email Security
Sophos Email Security has become an essential part within your cybersecurity policy. Keep imposters out and stop malware from coming in your email inboxes.
On this page Kappa Data informs you how Sophos Email Security can be an important asset in your cybersecurity policy.
Overview Sophos Email Security
With Sophos Email Security you can trust your inbox again with cloud email security protecting your people and your critical information from malware, as well as malware free phishing and impersonation attempts.
Keep imposters out
Automatically identify your high-profile targets for malware-free impersonation and business email compromise attacks, then block the attack with machine learning analysis of message content.
Block Imposters
Criminals often impersonate key individuals in an organization or well-known brands to trick other employees into falling for their scams. With no malware or URLs to detect, Sophos Email uses advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) machine learning to block these targeted impersonation and Business Email Compromise attacks.
NLP is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on helping computers to understand the way we humans write and speak. This enables Sophos Email to understand words in context rather than individually to extract notions like “urgency” and “asking for something” with an email and stop the message reaching your users.
For added protection, Sophos Email also includes a setup assistant that integrates with AD Sync to automatically identify the individuals within an organization who are most likely to be impersonated. It scans all inbound mail for display name variations associated with those users, further extending protection against phishing imposters.
Let trusted senders in
Authenticate all your senders without blocking legitimate email using SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authentication techniques and email header anomaly analysis.
Authenticate Senders
Adversaries are experts at using social engineering in their attacks. That’s why Sophos Email scans all inbound messages for key phishing indicators such as brand spoofing and impersonation attempts in real-time using SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authentication techniques and email header anomaly analysis. It spots and blocks phishing emails before they reach your users.
Stop malware from reaching the inbox
Multi-layered protection utilizes over 35 years of threat intelligence, reputational and behavioral analysis, and state-of-the-art machine learning to eliminate malware and malicious URLs from reaching your inboxes.
Stop Malware
The danger with phishing is not the email itself but what it gets people to do. Phishing emails often include malicious links and malware attackers try to trick you into activating. Sophos Email Time-of-Click URL rewriting analyzes all URLs as they are clicked to block or warn users of risks, while the Sophos cloud sandbox accurately analyzes all files using multi-layered analysis and state-of-the art machine learning models. This ensures latest zero-day and unknown malware threats and PUA are blocked in minutes.
Protection post-delivery
Automatically remove phishing emails containing newly infected URLs as soon as the threat state changes with continuous monitoring of Microsoft 365 mailboxes.
Post-delivery Protection
Email protection should continue to monitor messages once in the inbox. Safe URLs can be redirected to malicious ones, and malware can be inserted in previously safe sites. Sophos Email’s Search and Destroy API connection identifies these changes to threat levels automatically and removes malicious URLs, as well as the messages for Microsoft 365 users.
Messages identified by Search and Destroy can be viewed in your post-delivery quarantine summary.
Data Security in mind with Sophos Email
Secure sensitive data and make compliance easy with Sophos Email Security. Sophos Email automatically scans messages and attachments for sensitive data, with encryption that integrates seamlessly.
Prevent Data Loss
Create multi-rule DLP policies for groups and individual users to ensure protection of sensitive information with discovery of financials, confidential contents, health information, and PII in all emails and attachments.
Encrypt and Authentication
Encrypt messages and add a digital signature to verify sender identity with S/MIME, or select from customizable encryption options including TLS-encryption, attachment and message encryption (PDF and Office), or add-on full web portal encryption.
Increase your efficiency with Microsoft
Sophos Email Security provides intuitive and incredibly broad visibility and protection, all managed from a single management console to increase efficiency.
Office 365 protection with Sophos
Fast and Easy Deployment
API-based email security avoids the need to reroute email through the Sophos Email gateway, ensuring faster setup and email processing.
Integrated Data Security
Secure sensitive data and make compliance easy. Sophos Email automatically scans messages and attachments for sensitive data, with encryption that integrates seamlessly.
Prevent Data Loss
Create multi-rule DLP policies for groups and individual users to ensure protection of sensitive information with discovery of financials, confidential contents, health information, and PII in all emails and attachments.
Encrypt and Authentication
Encrypt messages and add a digital signature to verify sender identity with S/MIME, or select from customizable encryption options, including TLS encryption, attachment encryption with integrated M365 add-in (PDF and Office), or add-on full web portal encryption.
Centralize Threat Intelligence for Faster Responses
Maximize security investment and respond to threats across your M365 suite with shared threat intelligence from endpoint and email protection in the Sophos XDR data lake.
Enjoy safer email with Sophos Email
Sophos Email Security stops more threats faster, keeping email flowing to your users with high performance advanced threat detection and response.
Efficiency Built on Experience
Decades of threat intelligence data from SophosLabs means if we already know a message is bad, we block it at the source to optimize sandbox performance and deliver safe messages faster.
Blocking Bad Behavior
Threats constantly change their appearance. How threats behave is what remains constant. Sophos’ cloud sandbox analyzes all file processes, file activity, registry activity, and network connections to block ransomware and other forms of malware.
Power of Deep Learning AI
The same technology as our award-winning endpoint protection, Sophos deep learning artificial intelligence blocks zero-day malware and unwanted applications in their tracks.
Maximize Security Investments
With many cyberattacks starting with phishing. Sophos unlocks end-to-end visibility across your environments, with clear dashboards, detail threat reports, and extended detection and response.
Deeper Understanding of Threats
Anti-malware scanning and sandboxing provide detailed verdict reports based on machine learning analysis, file reputation, VirusTotal results and MITRE ATT&CK Matrix tactics to giving you a deeper understanding of threats targeting your organization.
Shared Threat Intelligence
Maximize security investment with shared threat intelligence from endpoint and email protection in the Sophos XDR data lake. Enabling you to identify previously unseen indicators of compromise or and remove suspicious files across environments. Then extend visibility across Microsoft 365, cloud server workloads, the network and more.
Frequently asked questions
Check our FAQ section where you can find the first questions that have been asked to us during the last months.
Contact usHow does Sophos Email Security contribute to the overall cybersecurity strategy required by the NIS2 directives?
Sophos Email Security contributes to the overall cybersecurity strategy required by the NIS2 directives by providing essential protection against email-based threats, which are often the initial vectors for cyberattacks. By securing email communications, organizations can prevent breaches, data loss, and service disruptions, which are critical to maintaining the integrity and availability of essential services as mandated by NIS2.
How does Sophos Email Security help in detecting and blocking phishing attempts?
Sophos Email Security uses advanced threat detection technologies, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, to identify and block phishing attempts. It analyzes email content, links, and attachments for suspicious patterns and behaviors, ensuring that phishing emails are intercepted before they reach end-users.
How does Sophos MDR (Managed Detection and Response) complement Sophos Email Security?
Sophos MDR complements Sophos Email Security by providing a team of experts who monitor and manage email security on behalf of the organization. This service includes proactive threat hunting, incident investigation, and response, ensuring that email-borne threats are detected and mitigated in real-time, even if the organization lacks in-house security expertise.
How is Sophos Email Security integrated with Sophos XDR (Extended Detection and Response)?
Sophos Email Security is integrated with Sophos XDR by feeding email security data into the XDR platform, which correlates it with data from other security layers such as endpoints, servers, and networks. This integration allows for a unified view of potential threats, enabling security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to incidents more effectively across the entire organization.
What benefits does the integration of Sophos Email Security with XDR provide to organizations?
The integration of Sophos Email Security with XDR provides several benefits, including:
- Enhanced visibility: A unified dashboard for monitoring and analyzing threats across multiple vectors, including email.
- Improved threat detection: Correlation of email security events with other data sources helps identify sophisticated attacks.
- Faster incident response: Automated and coordinated response actions across the security ecosystem reduce the time to contain and remediate threats.
- Comprehensive protection: Ensures that threats missed by one layer are detected and addressed by another, minimizing the risk of a successful attack.
What is Sophos Email Security, and why is it important for organizations?
Sophos Email Security is a comprehensive solution designed to protect organizations from email-borne threats such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and spam. It is crucial for organizations because email is a common entry point for cyberattacks, and securing it helps prevent breaches and data loss, which are vital for maintaining the integrity and security of communications.
What reporting and compliance features does Sophos Email Security offer to help organizations meet NIS2 requirements?
Sophos Email Security offers detailed reporting and compliance features, including logs of email traffic, threat detection events, and response actions. These reports can be used to demonstrate compliance with NIS2 requirements, providing evidence of the organization’s efforts to secure email communications and respond to incidents promptly.
What role does Sophos Email Security play in protecting against ransomware attacks?
Sophos Email Security plays a critical role in protecting against ransomware attacks by scanning email attachments and links for known and unknown ransomware strains. It uses real-time threat intelligence and sandboxing to analyze and block malicious content, preventing ransomware from being delivered via email.
Why is the integration of Sophos Email Security with XDR and MDR important for compliance with the NIS2 directives?
The integration of Sophos Email Security with XDR and MDR is important for compliance with the NIS2 directives because it ensures a robust, multi-layered defense against cyber threats. The NIS2 directives require organizations to implement comprehensive security measures, including proactive monitoring, threat detection, and incident response. By integrating email security with XDR and MDR, organizations can meet these requirements more effectively, ensuring the resilience of critical infrastructure and services.
Why should organizations in Belgium consider integrating Sophos Email Security with their XDR and MDR services to align with the NIS2 directives from CCB Belgium?
Organizations in Belgium should consider integrating Sophos Email Security with their XDR and MDR services to align with the NIS2 directives because this approach provides comprehensive, layered protection against cyber threats. The integration ensures that email security is not isolated but part of a broader, cohesive cybersecurity strategy that meets the rigorous standards set by the NIS2 directives. This alignment helps safeguard critical infrastructure, maintain service continuity, and protect sensitive data, all of which are essential for compliance with the directives from CCB Belgium.
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