Email Compromise Protection (ECP) - Protect Yours & Customers' Email
Email Compromise Protection (ECP) is a technical solution design to stop fraudulent emails. The service effectively protects your organisation whilst also protecting your customers and suppliers.
Safeguard Your Brand
Guarantee every email is authentic, shielding your brand from phishing and spoofing attacks.
Prevent Financial Loss
Lock down your email accounts to stop breaches and unauthorized transactions, securing your business and finances.
Stay Compliant and Secure
Achieve top-tier compliance with cutting-edge email security that safeguards sensitive data and meets all regulatory demands.
We Secure Your Email
Email fraudsters often target employees, customers, suppliers, or other business connections through phishing, social engineering, or malware. Once they gain access to an account, they manipulate recipients into transferring money, sharing sensitive information, or completing unauthorized transactions. Since these scams involve third parties communicating with each other, email filters and stricter security routines offer little protection.
That's where Email Compromise Protection or Secure Email as we also call it, comes in hand to safeguard both your company internally as well as externally.
How Does ECP Work?
The service is based on a combination of SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Together, they provide adequate protection not only against phishing, but also increase the likelihood of legitimate email being delivered to the recipient.
For maximum email security, we also recommend actively monitoring new domain name registrations to proactively detect any trade marks similar to yours. This allows more effective action against unauthorised use.
SPF
SPF blocks unauthorized users from sending emails with your domain by specifying which servers are allowed. It works by listing approved IP addresses in DNS records. However, SPF fails to protect emails that are forwarded, making it less effective against certain types of email spoofing.
DKIM
DKIM is an email authentication method that verifies emails through cryptographic signatures, ensuring they come from authorized servers. Unlike SPF, DKIM remains effective even when emails are forwarded, making it tougher for attackers to fake messages. However, DKIM can be challenging to set up and may not always be fully reliable on its own. It’s best used as part of a comprehensive email security plan.
DMARC
DMARC enhances SPF and DKIM by giving senders tools to prevent and monitor domain abuse. It verifies sender authenticity and directs email clients on whether to accept or reject messages based on your policy.
Process
We Are With You All The Way
After a period of having seen the extreme rise in the occurrence of false emails, we turned to Abion. Abion presented their service Secure Email (ECP) for us, which seemed promising. After a bit of tweaking and thorough analysis work with Abion, the problem is now basically eliminated.
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How E-Mail Fraud Became a Threat to Oatly's Success
The number of reported email fraud increased by over 1000% and Oatly needed to secure its business against this threat. For over 10 years, Oatly has relied on us to be their strategic partner for domain names and DNS.
Learn more about Email Compromise Protection
In the current digital landscape, secure email is more than just a buzzword; it’s a fundamental requirement. These services are designed to protect email accounts and the sensitive information they contain through robust security measures, primarily end-to-end encryption. Taking the proactive step of embracing secure email can enhance the safety and security of digital communications for businesses and consumers alike.
Why is this important?
Confidentiality in both personal and business email interactions is essential in ensuring private information remains private and that sensitive data is not exposed to potential threats. In a world where email is now one of the primary modes of communication, securing your emails is a necessity. Sensitive information such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial data, intellectual property, and health records must be protected to prevent unauthorised access and misuse. The consequences of a data breach can be severe, leading to significant issues such as financial loss or customer trust losses.
Secure email services play a vital role in safeguarding this information from cyber threats like hacking, phishing, and email interception. Secure email providers help mitigate these risks by offering a protected email service that enhances privacy and maintains the confidentiality of your information.
What is Email Compromise Protection?
ECP combines two critical components: encryption and authentication. Email encryption ensures that the content of your emails is scrambled into a format that can only be read by the intended recipient, thanks to end-to-end encryption. This means that even if the email is intercepted during its journey, the content remains inaccessible to unauthorised parties.
Common encryption methods include TLS, PGP, and AES-256. These standards are designed to protect your emails both in transit and in the inbox. However, be aware that some methods like TLS and PGP encryption might have vulnerabilities. Therefore, it’s important to select a secure email provider that ensures robust encryption protocols.
Sensitive Data Protected
Secure email safeguards personal, financial, and medical data, ensuring privacy and blocking unauthorized access. For businesses and individuals, it's essential to protect vital information. Here's why these data types need strong email security.
Personal Data
Personal data includes any information that can identify an individual, such as names, addresses, or phone numbers. This category also encompasses Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like social security numbers and email addresses, as well as indirect PII like date of birth and IP address.
Guarding this data against identity theft and other fraudulent activities is vital.
Financial Data
Financial data includes sensitive information like bank account details, credit card numbers, and transaction records. Encrypted email services are crucial for protecting this information from unauthorised access and fraud. Using strong encryption methods, such as AES-256, ensures that even if the email is intercepted, the financial data remains secure.
Medical Data
Medical data, or Protected Health Information (PHI), includes medical records, health histories, and lab results. This data is highly sensitive and must be secured to comply with privacy laws like HIPAA.
Encrypted data ensures that medical information remains confidential and protected from unauthorised access through secure messages.
Company Data / Trade Secrets
Company data and trade secrets can include highly confidential information such as product details, upcoming releases, designs, and proprietary recipes. This data is vital to a company's success, and if it falls into the wrong hands, the consequences could be severe.
Implementing encryption and authentication protocols on your mail servers ensure that this critical and confidential information is well-protected against unauthorised access.
Key Features of ECP and Secure Email
Secure email services provide key features like end-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication, and digital signatures to protect your information. These tools ensure email security, integrity, and authenticity. Let's explore how they enhance your email protection.
FAQ
If I use SPF, DKIM and DMARC, will I be completely protected, and will all my emails reach my inbox?
In addition to implementing SPF, DKIM and DMARC, you need continuous analysis of your email flow based on DMARC report information. The SPF, DKIM or DMARC protocols do not provide you with a qualified analysis, nor can they distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent email content. These are critical features needed for reliable protection. In response, Abion has developed Email Compromise Protection as a service, where we take proactive responsibility for everything from pre-studies to implementation and continuous adjustments.
What are fraudulent emails and how are they carried out?
Since email remains the main communication tool for businesses, it's a prime target for scams, where fake email addresses are used to steal money, sensitive information, or spread malware.
In the past, fraudulent emails often involved registering a domain name similar to a real company’s (typosquatting) to trick people into thinking it was legitimate. These emails could easily deceive customers or employees into sharing sensitive information. Today, scams have become more advanced. Spoofing makes fake emails look identical to real ones, while spear-phishing involves fraudsters studying a company’s structure and impersonating colleagues to steal information or money.
What types of sensitive data are protected by Secure email?
Secure email protects personal, financial, company and medical data, ensuring the confidentiality and security of sensitive information.
Why is Secure email important?
Secure email is important because it safeguards sensitive information from unauthorised access and cyber threats.
How do you protect against fraudulent emails?
If you want to protect yourself against fraudulent emails, it is not enough to just implement SPF or DKIM. These alone do not provide sufficient protection for both the receiving and sending domains. For complete protection, DMARC must be added on top of SPF and DKIM. DMARC is the component that validates whether a sender is authentic or not and then directs the email client to accept or reject the message. It is also important to increase awareness within the company. For example, all employees need to be vigilant when receiving internal emails that initiate money transfers.
What are the consequences of not using Secure email?
Not using secure email can lead to legal penalties, financial losses, and loss of trust. These consequences can have serious implications for individuals and organisations.
What are some key features of Secure Email services?
Secure email services should have features like end-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication, and digital signatures to ensure the privacy and security of your communication. The secure email service is often provided by the web host, however there are also many companies who provide secure email service as a stand alone product.
What is Secure email?
Secure email combines encryption and authentication to protect the privacy and security of email communications, ensuring that sensitive information remains confidential and secure.
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