Securing Business Emails Against Whaling
aimed at senior executives. This $12.5 billion scam
often results in the compromise of sensitive information
and fraudulent wire transfers.
EnGarde Cloud Email Security Keeps Hospitality Companies
Ahead of The Latest Threats
Wailing attacks are sophisticated phishing attempts targeting high-profile executives to steal sensitive information or initiate fraudulent transactions, posing significant risks to businesses and their leadership. Guardian Digital is here to help. Our advanced and comprehensive EnGarde Cloud email security platform leverages the power of open-source technology to protect your business from wailing attacks.
With Guardian Digital, you get multi-layered defenses that analyze hundreds of thousands of email attributes in real time to stop deceptive social engineering attacks and email spoofing. It's challenging to stay secure, but we are here with you. Guardian Digital works tirelessly to safeguard your users, key business assets, and your reputation against sophisticated, wailing, and social engineering tactics.
Choose Guardian Digital for all encompassing superior email protection that closes critical gaps left by native email security in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Ensure your business is protected. Get started with Guardian Digital today.
What Is Securing Business Emails
Against Whaling?
Cybercriminals recognize that high-profile executives within an organization, or “whales,” typically have complete access to sensitive data and the ability to authorize high-value wire transfers, making them valuable attack targets for this reason. Whaling attacks are often successful because, due to the potentially high returns of these campaigns, attackers are willing to conduct extensive social engineering research on their targets to make their fraudulent emails seem as real as possible.
Anatomy of a Whaling Attack
The majority of whaling attacks follow four distinct phases:
Phase 1
Research
Cybercriminals gather information available on the Internet from data breach, social media profiles, and corporate websites to build their target list, identifying key executives and their relationships within an organization.
Phase 2
Build Attack
Attackers conduct extensive social engineering research to develop convincing emails impersonating an individual of authority, such as the CEO or CFO of a target organization.
Phase 3
Launch Campaign
Cybercriminals launch whaling campaigns targeting the high-profile executives they’ve identified in their target list. Emails sent in these campaigns do not necessarily rely on malicious links or attachments to deceive recipients. Instead, threat actors use stealthy impersonation tactics such as spoofing, look-alike domains, or display name deception.
Phase 4
Reap Rewards
A combination of urgency and trust convinces the victim to proceed with the request in the malicious email, often leading to a data breach or hefty financial loss for the target organization.
Safeguards the Inbox against Whaling & Social Engineering Attacks
Due to the extensive time and resources that cybercriminals devote to crafting these scams, whaling emails closely resemble legitimate messages and often evade detection by traditional email security defenses, such as spam filters and desktop protection. Even highly trained executives and IT professionals frequently fall victim to these targeted attacks, often resulting in the authorization of fraudulent wire transfers, the compromise of sensitive business information, and the loss of hard-earned client trust.
Guardian Digital EnGarde Cloud Email Security fortifies the inbox against whaling and social engineering attacks that target key individuals within your organization. The intuitive real-time defenses that make up this comprehensive email protection system analyze hundreds of thousands of email attributes, including sender-recipient relationships and legitimate sender behavior, to prevent the delivery of dangerous whaling emails.
Provides Complete Whaling Protection for Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace
Native Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace email protection takes a static, retrospective approach to securing the inbox and is unable to detect conversation-style and behavioral anomalies to protect against whaling attacks. Despite existing email security measures, 85% of Microsoft 365 users have experienced an email-borne cyberattack in the past year.
Guardian Digital EnGarde Cloud Email Security closes critical gaps in native Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace email protection with additional layers of proactive email defenses that prevent the most targeted and sophisticated attacks from infiltrating executives’ inboxes.
Strengthens IT Resources to Defend Against Whaling and Targeted Attacks
Businesses of all sizes - especially SMBs - frequently experience a shortage of cybersecurity resources and expertise, leaving them unprepared to defend against increasingly stealthy whaling attacks. Small businesses often have less stringent security defenses in place, less awareness of threats, and less time and money to invest in protection. Cyberthieves recognize that these companies have the most to lose and are readily exploiting these weaknesses.
Guardian Digital’s expert ongoing system monitoring, maintenance, and accessible support provide a remote extension of your IT team, improving the security of your email infrastructure and optimizing your team’s productivity with reliable, cost-efficient whaling protection.
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