Email inboxes have become a popular destination for important communication, and promotional messages, and unfortunately, a prime target for cybercrime. At vTECH io, we understand how crucial it is to protect your inbox from unwanted visitors. That’s why we offer Darktrace’s top-of-the-line email cybersecurity products.
Founded in 2013 by a group of mathematicians and cyber defense experts, Darktrace has emerged as a leader in AI-based cybersecurity. Their ultimate mission is to eradicate cyber disruption worldwide by providing all-encompassing AI-driven solutions. With more than 8,100 satisfied clients, Darktrace has proven its ability to defend against complex threats like ransomware, cloud attacks, and SaaS attacks. Rest assured that with Darktrace’s email cybersecurity products, your inbox is in safe hands.
A Self-Learning Approach for Novel Threats
Darktrace’s email security solutions utilize AI to learn what’s normal for every user, enabling them to detect targeted or unknown threats that might slip past traditional security measures. What’s considered normal for one user may be deemed unusual for another. As a result, the platform applies proportionate response techniques that involve understanding, contextualizing, and weighing all data to make the right decisions in response to any potential threats.
To reduce risk while allowing legitimate emails to flow, Darktrace/Email works invisibly in the background. The platform constantly learns normal email patterns and analyzes thousands of data points from each email to develop actionable metrics. Darktrace’s Self-Learning AI then processes these metrics to understand the email as a whole.
Once Darktrace RESPOND determines which elements of an email are risky, it neutralizes either those parts or the entire email. By analyzing email communications and creating patterns, Darktrace/Email can determine whether an email belongs in the inbox. The platform also considers data outside of Email, such as network and endpoint data, to understand the domain within an organization.
Additionally, Darktrace/Email goes beyond traditional email security measures by performing additional checks on suspicious URLs and attachments to determine their legitimacy. When a risk is identified, Darktrace/Email rewrites or strips the attachments to prevent accidental data loss and protect user accounts with account takeover protection.
Moreover, Darktrace/Email combats potential spoofing attempts by leveraging established email security techniques and rich contextual information to reveal the true sender and effectively stop spoofing attempts. These advanced security solutions are essential in detecting and preventing targeted or unknown threats that may bypass traditional security measures.
Protect Your Inbox
Darktrace/Email utilizes AI and machine learning to spot subtle signs of sophisticated email threats and neutralize them before they can cause any harm. Here is a list of some of the major threats Darktrace/Email protects against:
Phishing: As attackers increasingly utilize automation tools to carry out targeted phishing attacks, users are at greater risk of unwittingly giving away their login credentials. However, Darktrace/Email can detect the subtle indicators of a sophisticated email threat and proactively neutralize it.
Account Takeover: An Account Takeover is a type of cyber threat where an attacker gains access to an employee’s login credentials using methods like phishing attacks, data leaks, or purchasing them on the Dark Web. Once they have control of the account, the attacker can access all the resources and information available to that user and can use their account as a starting point to launch more attacks.
To detect and prevent Account Takeover, Darktrace leverages its ability to learn the normal behavior of each user. By analyzing multiple signals, Darktrace can identify when an attacker is attempting to take over an account and quickly neutralize the threat.
Supply Chain Attack/Vendor Email Compromise: Vendor email compromise, also known as a supply chain attack, is a significant threat to companies, as email is the primary mode of communication between business partners and suppliers. Attackers can compromise the email accounts of trusted partners or suppliers, which poses a significant risk to the organization.
These attackers will often use hijacked domains to bypass security rules and policies.
Darktrace/Email can effectively mitigate supply chain email risks by analyzing each account and email on a case-by-case basis, rather than relying solely on domain reputation. This approach enables Darktrace/Email to detect subtle signs of compromise and neutralize the threat before any damage is done.
Data Loss: Darktrace/Email provides comprehensive visibility into both incoming and outgoing email traffic, enabling you to monitor and detect potential data loss incidents that could occur due to insider threats or account takeovers. Additionally, it identifies users who exhibit abnormal behavior through multiple data loss incidents, helping you to quickly address potential security breaches.
CEO Fraud: CEO fraud is a type of scam where attackers impersonate a CEO or high-level executive to obtain sensitive information or transfer money fraudulently. Darktrace/Email can identify and prevent such attacks by detecting spoofing attempts, where emails are sent from fake or similar-looking email addresses, and by analyzing the language and content of emails for suspicious solicitation attempts. It can block or hold back any threatening components of such emails to prevent the fraud from being successful.
Invoice Fraud: The act of invoice fraud typically involves a perpetrator posing as a supplier and deceiving your organization into making payments to fraudulent bank accounts. Darktrace/Email is equipped to identify email spoofing attempts and recognize language that indicates an attempted invoice scam. It takes immediate action to prevent the attack from succeeding.
Social Engineering: Social engineering is a tactic used by cybercriminals to manipulate recipients psychologically, inducing them to take actions they would not normally take, usually by invoking emotions such as fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
Darktrace/Email is capable of identifying patterns in communication that suggest the use of social engineering for malicious purposes. It takes action by holding back the email to prevent the attack from succeeding.
Extortion: In an attempt to extort crypto-currency payments from employees, a perpetrator might falsely claim to possess compromising information or material. Despite these threats often being baseless, they can still be effective. However, Darktrace/Email can detect such extortion attempts through language analysis within the email content and prevent their delivery.
Ransomware & Malware: Malicious software, such as ransomware, can be delivered to an organization through email, providing attackers with a direct pathway. While email gateways and malware scanners are designed to detect these types of attacks, in reality, they can only identify known threats, leaving organizations vulnerable to innovative attack techniques.
To prevent such attacks, Darktrace/Email identifies suspicious behaviors that may indicate the presence of malware or ransomware and takes prompt action to remove the threat from the email, safeguarding the organization from potential harm.
Get Started With Darktrace/Email
Getting started with Darktrace/Email is easy, and you can begin by reaching out to vTECH io today. As a trusted partner of Darktrace, vTECH io has the expertise to help you seamlessly integrate this advanced email security solution into your organization. We can guide you through the process of implementing Darktrace/Email, ensuring that it is customized to your unique needs and requirements.
With help from our experts, you can start protecting your email communications from potential threats and ensuring that your business can flow normally without any disruption. If you want to protect your inbox from cyber criminals, Darktrace/Email is the ideal solution.