email security

Billions of corporate messages flow back and forth on a daily basis. And with over 90% of breaches starting with an email, organizations today face a daunting challenge when choosing the best email security solution to stop emails with phishing links or malicious attachments that unleash ransomware,…

When I was a kid, I used to love dot-to-dot books. I enjoyed formulating a guess of what the picture was, the hunt in finding all the dots, the satisfaction of connecting them all together, and the excitement of the final picture coming into view to either confirm, or deny, my suspicions of what I w…

The traditional corporate data center is still the hub for most enterprises, but increasingly organizations are leveraging the benefits of the multicloud world to drive operational efficiencies, scale and expand growth. While the benefits are clear, securing multicloud environments like SaaS apps, p…

There’s no doubt that general awareness for cybersecurity has been on the rise in recent years. The importance of using strong passwords, for example, is now common knowledge. But one very popular and effective threat continues to fly largely under the public’s radar: phishing. Why phishing? Researc…

Moving to the cloud is a no brainer. It’s far more cost effective than maintaining internal systems. No wonder companies have been transitioning to cloud platforms, like Microsoft Office 365, over the last few years. It’s great for the bottom line. Companies with fewer than 1,000 users can expect to…

Email continues to be both the number one way business people across the globe communicate, as well as the number one threat vector that can endanger the very thing it is trying to enable, getting business done.  However, our global economy means now, more than ever, senders and receivers of email c…

In our previous blog posts about AMP and Threat Grid on Cisco Email Security, we have discussed the approach to email security, that organizations could take to protect themselves against advanced threats. We have as well discussed the components of the solution and how they work together to protect…

Vendor “openness” drives better outcomes for the state of information security.  That’s why Cisco has invested and committed so heavily to our Cisco Security Technical Alliances (CSTA) program in recent years.  CSTA now has over 130 technology partners…a six-fold increase from where we started nearl…

“Did you get my email? The really urgent one? About funding for your new project?” “Maybe. I can’t tell. My inbox is full of spam and I am busy scrutinizing every email and domain name to make sure the sender is a valid person that I actually know and the attachment is a valid… Oh wait, now my scree…