Overview
Today’s business users face an unprecedented number of daily emails, from a wide variety of senders, including coworkers, customers, prospects, suppliers, business service providers, and both internal and external cloud-delivered applications distributing machine-generated emails. While email plays a critical role in modern business communications and operations, it also provides attackers with a nearly open door to individuals who can help them bypass security controls and successfully carry out a large variety of attacks.
Email provides criminals with a flexible and ubiquitous attack vehicle, enabling a single email to deliver socially engineered content in conjunction with malicious links and attachments directly to unsuspecting and busy employees at any level within an organization. Supporting this unique threat vector, an entire attack tools and services industry used by non-technical cybercriminals has emerged.