Email Security
The Challenge
When the internet was created, our digital world was a much simpler place. Technology was a new toy, and the architects of the internet were excited by the prospect of an open sharing of information and new ideas. However, as is always the case, people started discovering how to use this new technology in far more devious ways.
It seems intuitive that your domain name is… well… yours. Nobody should be able to send email messages using your domain without your permission, right? Unfortunately, our current email system was created without safeguards like this in place and with a little technical know-how, unscrupulous people can in fact send email out claiming to be you.
We’ve all heard the stories of employees getting email messages from the “CEO” asking them to wire $50,000 to a bank account, only to realize too late that the money has been sent to a foreign account. Upon investigation, they find that account is now empty with no way of recovering the funds. We’ve also seen a great deal of increased news coverage regarding criminals using the same types of attacks (phishing and spear phishing) to get internal employees to open up virus attachments, or worse, activating cryptolocker type software, and then holding a company’s information hostage.
So if anyone can send email as us, how do we prevent criminals from being successful in these types of attacks?
The Solution
The solution for eliminating or reducing the amount of illegitimate emails that actually reach their intended target is to implement industry standard protocols and best practices which are designed to solve this very problem. Through implementing these protocols, we’ve helped our customers’ email security improve dramatically, and diminishing phishing and spear phishing attacks to virtually ZERO after implementation.
Sound complicated? It can be challenging to implement and maintain the correct compliance measures and protocols but doing so comes with incredible benefits to your company. TrustLiant identifies, implements, monitors and supports all of these critical processes for you.
Pathfinder – Your Tool to Dramatically Increase Email Deliverability
TrustLiant clients use PathFinder to dramatically increase their email security by monitoring who is sending emails using their domain and then implementing the proper protocols to instruct the world at large to reject any messages that don’t come from trusted sources. With our compliance services in place, receiving mail servers on the customer side are able to validate your email using industry standards and verified security compliance protocols and reject email messages that aren’t compliant. This helps protect both your internal email users, as well as your customers and external email users, from receiving messages that aren’t genuine.