What is email phishing?
Phishing is a cyber threat tactic designed to trick users into revealing sensitive information such as banking details, login credentials, and confidential data through deceptive emails or malicious links.
Phishing attacks bypass security perimeters using highly personalized tactics that trick employees into revealing sensitive information. Combating them requires advanced threat intelligence backed by a multi-layered security architecture that offers up-to-the-minute protection.
4.88
millionThe average cost of a phishing breach is $4.88 million.
64%
BEC attacks are reportedly faced by 64% of businesses.
The benefits of phishing protection with eProtect
Protect your organization from the entire spectrum of threats
Our algorithm offers protection from the entire spectrum of cyber threats targeting organizations, including BEC, CEO fraud, credential theft, and others by analyzing 40+ factors with utmost accuracy and intelligent categorization.
Deploy multi-layered threat defense
Deploy a multi-layered security approach to neutralize the most sophisticated phishing attacks at every stage of the attack chain, by combining real-time analysis, behavioral detection, and intelligent policy controls.
Keep BEC attacks at bay
Stay vigilant to business email compromise attacks with impersonated identity detection, contextual threat detection, in-depth analysis of the email content and intent, as well as checks on the sender’s reputation.
Get real-time visibility
Stay informed about everything that enters your organization’s security perimeters and stay on top of the most evasive threats with comprehensive real-time alerts, continuous monitoring, and reporting.
Reduce administrator overhead
With essential email security insights—like overall security posture, high-risk users, prevalent threat types, and more—eProtect lightens the load on administrators and simplifies decision-making.
Integrate with any email provider
Whichever email provider hosts your organization's business email, be it a cloud email provider or an on-premise service, eProtect provides flexible deployment options to seamlessly integrate security controls.
Key features
URL protection
eProtect rewrites and inspects inbound email URLs in real time and at time‑of‑click. Leveraging dynamic link analysis and sandboxing, it blocks malicious, cloaked, or compromised links, ensuring safe browsing, even post-delivery.
Impersonation protection
With email authentication protocols—such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and mechanisms to identify spoofed domains and display names of high-profile users—all impersonated identities are captured and handled efficiently.
Time-of-click protection
Even after delivery, eProtect continuously evaluates URL safety at point‑of‑click using behavioral engines and live threat feeds—blocking malicious URLs that may become compromised post‑delivery.
User banner alerts
eProtect overlays clear, contextual banners on suspicious emails, highlighting external senders, anomalous content patterns, or unauthenticated senders, empowering users to recognize and resist social engineering ploys.
Threat remediation
Post-delivery threat scanning allows eProtect to identify and remediate malicious emails even after they've reached user inboxes. If specific threat indicators are detected, similar emails are proactively located and neutralized.
Comprehensive dashboards
Rich, interactive dashboards present real‑time insights on security posture, user‑risk profiles, threat trends, and malicious activity, simplifying analytics and empowering SOC teams with actionable visibility.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is email phishing in cybersecurity?
Email phishing is a cyber threat mechanism in which threat actors use manipulative social engineering tactics to extract sensitive information from their targets.
What are email phishing scams?
Email phishing scams are attacks in which cybercriminals plan an elaborate scam by phishing for important organizational information. This can include corporate espionage, high-profile data leaks, or financial scams.
Why is phishing a significant threat to an organization?
Phishing endangers organizations because the potential data leaks can lead to losses of millions of dollars, reputational damage, and loss of customer trust.
How do you identify a phishing email?
Phishing emails have certain indicators that can help identify them. Handle emails that create a sense of urgency, offer unsolicited password change or transaction requests, or come from unauthenticated senders with caution.
How do you report a phishing email?
Report any suspicious emails as spam and notify your organization's security administrator to ensure that timely action is taken.
What is a spear phishing email?
Spear phishing is a type of phishing in which threat actors target a specific individual or an organization by conducting extensive research and gathering information about them.
What are the best practices to prevent phishing?
Train your employees to identify the markers of phishing emails and take prompt actions to tighten security settings in your email security provider based on user-reported markings.
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