Block Email by Country (GeoBlocking) Geo-Fencing
Block or allow email by country – ‘GeoBlocking’ allows you to restrict or allow email from specific destinations based on IP or Country…
The Spambrella ‘Core Protection’ module, part of our Email Threat Protection service (all service packages) provides the most powerful approach to detecting and eliminating spam and malicious payloads in any language. Spambrella also now includes a number of GeoBlocking filter features suitable for any business Internationally.
Immediate benefits to GeoBlocking
- Reduce the business threat landscape (threat vector)
- Totally eliminate unwanted email from any country
- Auto quarantine and check daily/weekly/monthly
Spambrella is a premium email security service for SMEs and Enterprise organizations. Our services allow Administrators to identify the country’s location of the inbound email domain-wide. GeoBlocking has become an essential feature for organizations of all sizes that wish to reduce geographic threat vectors to their organization.
With Spambrella’s extensive data reports, you can choose to allow or block inbound email by country name or IP address. GeoBlocking a country or blocking multiple countries with our Country IP Database could not be easier. You can also alert internal referees when an email from a particular geographic location is quarantined so it can be reviewed with trained eyes before quarantine release.
It’s known that most spam (particularly malware such as keyloggers) originates overseas (Estonia, Moldavia, China, Poland, etc.) By blocking destinations with Spambrella from most of the undeveloped world, I’ve successfully reduced spam by 95 percent in the past year!
The threat landscape has changed, and with it, so have our processes. Spambrella now provides corporations globally with the GeoBlocking tools they need to filter email traffic effectively.
According to the World Cybercrime Index, the top countries by cyber threat are:
Russia: Ranked first for the highest cybercrime threat level in the world
Ukraine: Ranked second for cyber threat
China: Ranked third for cyber threat
United States: Ranked fourth for cyber threat
Nigeria: Ranked fifth for cyber threat
Romania: Ranked sixth for cyber threat
The index was created by surveying 92 cybercrime experts from around the world. It shows that a small number of countries pose the greatest cybercriminal threat. The index also highlights that some countries specialize in specific types of cyberthreats. For example, Nigeria is ranked first for online scams, while North Korea is ranked second for attacks and extortion.
Other countries at risk for cyber threats include Brazil and India.
The annual cost of cybercrime is skyrocketing to $10.5 trillion by 2025, forcing businesses to adopt new solutions like AI cybersecurity to combat rising fraud, zero-day threats, and an ever-expanding attack surface.
Spambrella can dynamically classify imposter emails. Preemptively identify and sandbox suspicious URLs and attachments. It leverages big-data analysis (25% of the world’s corporate email systems) to classify email accurately. All within a single service that connects with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
Forrester‘s 2025 Predictions report outlines critical cybersecurity, risk, and privacy challenges on the horizon. Cybercrime costs are expected to cost $12 trillion by 2025, with regulators stepping up efforts to protect consumer data. Now is the time to invest in advanced GenAI Email Security with Spambrella.
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FAQ's
GeoBlocking is an email filter that allows organizations to quarantine traffic that comes from an unwanted country or IP address. It’s a security technique that applies easy-to-modify restrictions to your email traffic to fend off spam and other email-borne threats.
GeoBlocking can help protect your email system by reducing location-based threat vectors and minimizing your organization’s exposure to spam and malicious traffic. This filter is effective for preventing inbox clutter and auto-quarantining emails that originate from countries known for sending the most spam.
To enable the Block Email by Country feature, you should first apply your GeoBlocking filter settings. You’ll need to create a blocked country list by specifying all the countries or territories you don’t want to receive emails from. Once the list is created and the proper action is selected, every incoming email will be checked for the sending server’s location. If it matches one of the locations in your blocked country list, it will be instantly quarantined.
When the sending server’s location matches your GeoBlocking list, the email is taken to an isolated environment. You can manually review and release it if necessary. When setting up your GeoBlocking filter, add users who will be alerted when an email from a specific country is quarantined. They will be able to review it using Spambrella’s dashboard.
Spambrella’s GeoBlocking works by restricting email traffic by location. On the other hand, traditional spam filters barricade risky emails by analyzing the sender’s reputation, email content, attachments, and metadata. They allow safe-looking emails from reputable senders, regardless of the countries or territories they originate from.
Yes. For more effective email control, Spambrella’s GeoBlocking enables you to limit traffic by IP ranges, not just country names. Blocking by IP lets you narrow down locations within a country and restrict email traffic for specific regions.
GeoBlocking should be integrated with, not instead of, traditional security protocols. Think of GeoBlocking as an additional brick in your cybersecurity wall. The best practices involve enabling the Block Email by Country feature, applying filtering rules, and adding exemptions in a way that complements the protective functions of TLS, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protocols.
Yes. That’s the key idea behind restricting email traffic with GeoBlocking: to block emails from some countries without limiting emails from the countries you’re working with or plan to work with. If you want to receive emails from a particular country, simply don’t specify it in your blocked country list.
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