Targeted Attack Protection – (TAP)

Protect your business against advanced threats in email with malicious attachments and URLs – even zero-day, polymorphic malware, weaponized documents, and credential phish.

Dynamically analyze and block in real-time the malicious URLs and attachments that can evade antivirus and reputation filters to deliver banking Trojans, ransomware, and other malware.

Detect sophisticated malware attacks, including:

  • Polymorphic and zero-day malware
  • Malicious attachments
  • Other advanced exploits

In order to detect such advanced malware effectively—whether malware spread via spear-phishing emails containing a malicious attachment, watering hole URLs over email or longline phishing campaigns — our malware analysis system technology uses a combination of sophisticated techniques to evaluate advance threats, including:

  • Real-time checks against emerging campaigns and new malicious websites that are being detected across organizations
  • Static code analysis that looks for suspicious behavior, obfuscated scripts, malicious code snippets, and redirects to other malicious sites
  • Dynamic malware analysis that sandboxes the destination URL or suspicious attachments to simulate a real user on a machine, with the goal of observing any changes made to the system

Our anti-evasion technology, in the dynamic analysis, tricks malware into revealing itself by creating virtual environments that accurately reproduce real systems and real-user behavior and interactions. This process provides comprehensive detection analysis that determines whether the destination URL or an attachment under suspicion is malicious, even finding malware that is sophisticated enough to conceal itself from detection leveraging techniques, e.g., IP rotation, mouse movement simulation, real browser sessions, time-delayed analysis.

Spambrella leverage cloud-based Big Data analytics to predictively detect malicious URLs in unsolicited emails and block user clicks before they can lead to a compromise.

Spambrella applies machine-learning heuristics to model email flow at a per-user level, and at a cloud-level across all traffic within Targeted Attack Protection, in order to block URLs even before they host active malware, using a cloud-based process that incorporates Big Data techniques and a real-time scoring engine, including:

Together, these technologies provide the ability to predictively determine what could likely be malicious—and take preemptive steps before any user has a chance to click and have their machine compromised

Sandboxing URLs and Attachments

CEO Fraud & Anti-Spoof Detection

FAQ's

What types of email threats can TAP detect?

Security-focused organizations can take advantage of TAP to safeguard themselves against URL-based threats, infected attachments, business email compromise, web-based threats, and email account takeover. You can fine-tune the defensive capability of TAP for types of email threats that are considered the hardest to detect.

Can TAP block malicious URLs before users click on them?

Yes. Based on comprehensive threat intelligence, predictive analytics, and dynamic detection methods, TAP can prevent accidental or deliberate clicks on malicious URLs. Risk identification and blocking can happen in real time.

How does TAP integrate with existing email security systems?

Proofpoint TAP integration allows organizations to set up layered defenses against risks that standard attachment filters, email gateways, and antivirus software can’t detect. It’s easy to integrate to boost the defensive capabilities of your existing security systems.

What is Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)?

Targeted Attack Protection is an ever-learning cybersecurity measure based on static and dynamic analysis to spot sophisticated malicious attempts. It’s the most advanced and adaptive solution to counteract next-level email malware attacks.

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Related Case Studies

Robust, versatile, and reliable...
The reliability of the service and the level of protection that it provides. My spam levels immediately dropped to near zero.

There are almost no false positives. And I'm easily able to customize the level of protection with whitelists, blacklists, and sensitivity settings. I'm also a big fan of the antivirus and URL scanning features.

Verified Reviewer, Review via Gartner Capterra

I found spambrella to be easy to set up and has dramatically reduced the number of spam emails hitting our inboxes. It was easy to 'train' the software to release any genuine emails that were caught or add any spam that was not picked up.

Within a couple of weeks of use virtually no spam arrived to our mailboxes. Spam and phishing emails are a growing problem for everyone I'm sure. I now get a very low incidence of spam.

David F., Review via Gartner Capterra

It doesn't require an arcane knowledge to set the Spam filtering up, the guides are straight to the point and support staff are very helpful. Functionality wise, in short: we do not get spammed. Thanks to Spambrella.

Archiving wise, the new solution is easy to use, searches well and fast and is by far the cheapest we could find at the time. Ten year retention rocks!

Verified Reviewer, Review via Gartner Capterra

The service is great at filtering bad email as well as junk email out while allowing clean email though. I have used a few other options over the years and this is the best I have found. Clients sometimes have trouble configuring their settings to how they want it to be. Or tag emails as approved when they shouldn't and need IT interaction to resolve. Maybe just ease of use or having a more clear way for clients to resolve basics on their own.

Brian M., Review via Gartner Capterra

Used the software for: 2+ years - 5/5 Overall
With an ever overloaded department, and with cybersecurity skills shortage getting worse securing the I.T infrastructure.

Offloading the task of e-mail filtering to Spambrella has dramatically helped in the department's performance. The only drawback in our case is that the service is hosted outside of our territory and thus out of the legal jurisdiction.

John P., Review via Gartner Capterra

Easy to onboard my customers from another spam filtering system. Very fast and haven't had any downtime in the 9 months since I have moved to Spambrella. When I have had to use support, responses where quick. I had to move all my customers from another filtering system with little notice. After I moved my customers I realised how bad the old solution I used was. Contact with Sales and Support always been professional

Allen B., Review via Gartner Capterra

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