Securing Business Emails Against Social Engineering
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Anatomy of a Social Engineering Attack
Phase 1
Gather Information
Cybercriminals scour social media profiles, corporate websites, marketing databases, and online archives to identify and research targets.
Phase 2
Establish Trust
Through well-researched spear phishing emails and messages on social media impersonating a trusted individual or brand, attackers establish trust with their targets.
Phase 3
Deliver Emails
Cybercriminals deliver convincing emails that leverage the trust they’ve built, often conveying a sense of urgency or exploiting personal insecurities to convince targets to share sensitive information without carefully assessing the legitimacy of the sender.
Phase 4
Reap Rewards
The attackers now receive and launder funds, erasing any digital footprints in order to remain undetected, or extract valuable data or information from compromised accounts that can be monetized in future crimes.
Fortifies the Inbox Against Social Engineering Attacks
Social engineering attacks are designed to look and feel like legitimate communications, and often bypass traditional email security technology like spam filters and antivirus software as a result. Employees are not trained security experts, and even if they were, they could easily fall for a well-researched, highly convincing social engineering email.
Guardian Digital safeguards the inbox against dangerous, costly social engineering attacks with adaptive real-time defenses that analyze hundreds of thousands of email attributes, including legitimate sender behavior and sender-recipient relationships, to intercept social engineering attempts before they reach the inbox.
Provides Social Engineering Protection for Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace
Static built-in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace email protection is unable to detect and block social engineering emails that exploit human vulnerabilities using advanced deception techniques.
Guardian Digital EnGarde Cloud Email Security closes the gaps in native Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace email protection with critical supplementary layers of proactive email defenses capable of identifying even the most stealthy, well-researched social engineering attempts, while applying the Threat Intelligence gathered from these fraudulent emails to prevent future attacks.
Supplements IT Resources to Provide Superior Defenses Against Social Engineering Attacks
Businesses of all sizes - especially SMBs - frequently experience a shortage of cybersecurity resources and expertise, leaving them unprepared to defend against modern social engineering attacks.
Guardian Digital’s expert ongoing system monitoring, maintenance, and accessible support provide a remote extension of your IT team, bolstering the security of your email infrastructure and optimizing your team’s productivity with reliable, cost-efficient social engineering protection.
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What Is Social Engineering?
Social engineering attacks can take many forms, but they are all designed to deceive users by exploiting familiar relationships to engage the target and convince them to divulge sensitive information without their knowledge. This often leads to account compromise, the disclosure of confidential information, or loss of control over your computer.
Did you know that manipulation of information and people into performing actions or divulging confidential information and unknowingly compromising corporate accounts is the basis of 98% of all cyber attacks, this stealthy form of attack is known as social engineering. Engineering relies on human error and exploits personal or business relationships.
Making social engineering attacks extremely difficult to identify and defeat cyber criminals acknowledge that establishing trust with their targets increases the likelihood that victims will give attackers what they want, like giving out credit card information or something. Even as simple as clicking on a link or.
Or attachment in a phishing email containing malware to help you understand how social engineering attacks work. So you are better equipped to avoid falling for these highly deceptive scams. Let Guardian Digital educate you on the anatomy of a social engineering attack.
Phase one, gather information.
Cyber criminals scour social media profiles. Corporate websites, marketing databases, and online archives to identify and research targets to gather as much information on them as possible. The more information cyber criminals can find about their targets, the easier it is to deceive them, as attackers can use the research to select the context and attack methods they will use in their highly deceptive scams.
Phase two, establish trust threat actors engage with the victim through targeted communications such as social media messages or spear phishing emails, commonly impersonating someone they know, establishing trust with the target.
Having an email security solution capable of identifying and intercepting social engineering attacks and other malicious threats in real-time can mitigate risk and provide you and your organization with peace of mind. Guardian Digital OnGuard Cloud email security makes email safer business, leveraging technology that proactively learns and distributes defenses for the specific threats targeting your company along with the expert ongoing system management required to keep your business secure.
Phase three, deliver emails. Cybercriminals strategically deliver convincing emails that leverage the trust they've built and the detailed information they've gathered while simultaneously conveying a sense of urgency for exploiting personal insecurities, to convince targets to share sensitive information or click on a link or attachment without carefully assessing the legitimacy of the sender of the.
Phase four, reap rewards. Now it's time for the malicious actors to reap the rewards of their stealthy well researched attack campaign. The attackers now receive and launder funds erasing any digital footprints in order to remain undetected or they extract valuable data or information from compromised accounts.
That can be monetized in future crimes.