Cybercriminals are profit-driven businesses that focus their resources on techniques and tools that deliver the greatest return on investment. Small to medium enterprises are often seen as easier targets because they are generally protected by less sophisticated software or in some cases not protected at all. Unfortunately, attackers have worked this out and realize that targeting a smaller enterprise can actually mean an easier path to reward in the end.
Spambrella research shows that attachment-based campaigns can actually cost cyber criminals 50% less than URL-based attacks, making their return on investment even greater. Phishing campaigns that utilized document attachments increased by 1,500% over 2014 to 2015 to exploit of this financial advantage.
Spambrella takes a unique approach to threat detection and email security by taking advantage of our enterprise-class Targeted Attack Protection analysis techniques and a cloud-based architecture to identify and block suspicious messages. This helps organizations further protect their end-users by adding additional layers of security that cannot be matched by traditional email security solutions and gateways.
Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)
Spambrella leverages the advanced power of Targeted Attack Protection from Proofpoint’s industry-leading email analysis solution in order to provide enterprise-level protection to effectively detect malicious attachments.
Advanced Malware Detection Attachment Defense uses the visibility and intelligence gathered from analyzing the email of many of the largest companies in the world and applies this to smaller enterprises. This gives small to medium-sized organizations an advantage of scale and security utilizing the capabilities of Spambrella, without having to dedicate resources to managing the system manually.
The email attachment filtering capability within Spambrella leverages dynamic sandbox technology that powers the Spambrella Targeted Attack Protection solution. Intelligence gathered by the dynamic malware analysis is used to identify and block malicious attachments that are designed to evade traditional security solutions. These attachments, such as Microsoft Office documents, are often used in spear-phishing attacks, to deliver banking Trojans, ransomware, or other malware. Spambrella ensures all aspects of email attachment filtering meets the security, availability, and resiliency needs of the smaller enterprise.
Key Benefit:
Cloud scale, visibility, and elasticity for malware analysis and sandboxing with global and immediate benefit to all organizations for emerging campaigns, with proprietary technology to defeat malware through counter-evasion techniques.
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