On any given day, your organisation is probably receiving and sending out thousands of emails, many of them with confidential information and attachments. But is it safe? As Jamaica’s leading business email provider, we want you to understand the importance of corporate email protection. Ransomware, malware, viruses, corporate espionage, hackers, or general eavesdroppers all pose real threats. These are only a few of the email threats your business will face and all of which can be mitigated with high-quality email protection. Email is frequently targeted by cybercriminals and therefore a significant area of vulnerability. Cyber security threats are more sophisticated than ever before and hackers never give up. Unless you have you have a large and experienced security team, it’s usually not recommended that companies try to do it on their own. Give yourself peace of mind by hiring a team of security experts who will put together a comprehensive and layered defence system.
Problem: You receive an email from what looks like a trusted source. You open the email and click on the attachment that might appear like an interesting white paper, business document, or other seemingly normal attachment. Before you know it, your computer locks up and you lose massive amounts of valuable data.
Solution: An email protection service that checks all attachments is needed. In today’s day and age, cybercriminals construct profit-driven businesses that realise the potential in attacking small to medium enterprises, as often the reward is easier to achieve.
Phishing campaigns, where Hackers try to get sensitive information from you using document attachments, increased by 1,500% between 2014 and 2015. This is likely because attachment-based campaigns cost criminals 50% less than URL-based attacks. With an enterprise-level email protection service, all emails are run through the provider’s service and checked for a variety of issues including suspicious attachments. If an attachment is deemed suspicious, the service provider quarantines the attachment. Info Exchange’s MAILEssentials Attachment Defence feature uses Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) analysis techniques to identify and block threats.
Problem: Your inbox is constantly full of unwanted messages, or spam, from strangers trying to sell you something or solicit information from you. The messages never seem to stop coming!
Solution: You need an email protection service that checks for spam. Spammers can be stopped in various ways. With the aid of machine learning, frequent spammers can easily be identified and they are typically placed on blacklists. These known spammers are identified and stopped from ever entering your inbox. A more granular system, such the system included in Info Exchange’s Spam Filtering service, inspects all aspects of inbound and outbound messages including the sender’s IP address, the message envelope, headers, structure, and more.
Problem: Your security has been compromised by a computer virus and now your business is limping because your computers are down. Viruses infect technology and replicate themselves, making them hard to contain. Viruses can make disks unreadable, destroy files, and ultimately cause the “death” of your systems.
Solution: All businesses should utilise a business email provider that checks each and every email for viruses. Info Exchange checks every piece of email that passes through our service against multiple virus databases in order to successfully identify as many viruses as possible. Info Exchange’s MAILEssentials catches 100% of all known viruses.
Communicating via the Internet poses a variety of risks, especially for businesses. These are just a handful of scenarios your business could face and just a few solutions a reputable business email provider in Jamaica can provide. The size, location, and industry of your business doesn’t matter to hackers. Just as you would call in security experts to protect a brick and mortar building, you need to do the same for your digital assets. Cyberattacks are constantly evolving. Minimise your risk by partnering with cyber security experts. For more information, contact the professionals at Info Exchange Jamaica at 876-931-9552.
