Making the Internet Safer for Everyone
In today’s digital age, cyber threats are evolving rapidly, increasing the risk of data breaches, fraud and reputational damage. At GSoltutions, we’re dedicated to helping our clients stay ahead of these risks by partnering with Sendmarc – a leader in email security and domain protection. Recently, we attended a Sendmarc webinar where we uncovered some of the best cybersecurity weapons available today: Breach Detection, Lookalike Domain Defense and BIMI management. The following is a comprehensive breakdown of these technologies and why they are an essential part of your security strategy.
The Problem
Companies are still unaware of what cybercriminals learn from their staff, which affects their company directly. Cybercriminals use internal and external services to obtain user credentials and personal data, which are then used to initiate malicious activities against your company, customers and suppliers. Leaked credentials are the riskiest because they are used on multiple platforms, particularly when password reuse is prevalent due to the number of services that employees work on, daily.
Compliance and transparency introduce another layer of sophistication. Such regulations as HIPAA, GDPR and POPIA promote transparency into breaches. Organisations must be placed in a position of real-time visibility of leaked data in their quest to comply with such regulations. Malware-infected devices, personal smartphones and work laptops introduce another layer to circumvent cybersecurity controls, with keyloggers and malware introduced to steal login credentials and monitor employees.
The harm done by these concessions is considerable. Stolen credentials that employ reused passwords can be used by attackers to compromise the most secure systems. On the inside, attackers can operate undetected for months, stealing information, taking over systems, or encrypting confidential information. This results in operation disruptions, possible data loss and long-term damage to reputations, which dissolve customer trust and your brand reputation.
The Solution: Breach Detection
Sendmarc Breach Detection is an active platform that searches across various sources, such as the dark web, to ascertain whether your organisation’s systems or user credentials were breached. Early detection enables your organisation to respond promptly and effectively, limiting the capability for damage.
This service offers detailed insights such as:
- Real-time notification of breached credentials or sensitive personal information.
- Detection of stolen data from malware-infected machines.
- Visibility into breaches emanating from inside or outside your organisation.
- Comprehensive reports of breaches available through an easy-to-use client portal.
Lookalike Domain Defense
Cybercriminals would rather create lookalike domains that are very close replicas of legitimate websites with the intent to trick customers into divulging confidential data or downloading malware. Lookalike domains carry a severe threat to brand reputation and consumer trust, incurring possible monetary loss and data theft.
Sendmarc’s Lookalike Domain Defense actively tracks variations of domains, such as letter substitution, Unicode substitution, lack of punctuation, or TLD modification.
Sendmarc’s Lookalike Domain Defense actively tracks variations of domains, such as letter substitution, Unicode substitution, lack of punctuation, or TLD modification.
Early detection of this type helps organisations to:
- Detect and receive notifications on lookalike domains.
- Maintain a suspicious domain permutation list.
- Detect new variants of domains and their web/email functionality.
- React fast to counter impersonation attacks.
BIMI: Brand Identification and Security Enhancement
Brand Indicators for Messag;e Identification (BIMI) protocol enables your company to display your brand logo and authenticated messages. The visual mark makes it easy for the recipient to identify whether a message is from or not from your brand, hence making users more trustworthy and phishing-free.
There are various advantages toimplementing BIMI:
- Enhanced security for emails by properly authenticating.
- Better deliverability to the inbox since brand sending is supported by known senders that are not spam-marked.
- Increased visibility for your brand as your logo is displayed even when not opening this message.
What’s Next: Protection from AI-Based Attacks
Cyber attackers leverage artificial intelligence to design very sophisticated phishing emails, auto-exploitation of data and intelligent malware that can evade standard security measures. It is therefore no wonder that multi-layered security is the demand of the day with yet more dependence on AI-based attacks.
Sendmarc DMARC solution outwits AI-based attacks by verifying sources of emails and blocking spoofs – protecting your organisation’s email streams from misuse or fraud/malware sending spam.
Why Sendmarc?
With Sendmarc’s end-to-end cyber security solutions – from breach detection to lookalike domain defense and BIMI – you have a one-stop-shop for email security that’s easy to manage but robust. Sendmarc’s solutions give your organisation valuable visibility and control, allowing you to prevent, detect and respond early to attacks.
If you are ready to harden your defenses and secure your organisation’s digital assets, contact us and we can assist you in getting started. We are here to assist you to deploy Sendmarc’s solutions for ultimate email security.
Contact us for a complimentary email vulnerability assessment and discover how to identify risks and enhance your organisation’s email security.
