Overview

Email phishing is the go-to attack used to target your workforce and supply chain. These attacks have been a boon for cybercriminals with over $44 million in losses attributed as a direct result of successful phishing and advanced email scams in 2021, according to IC3’s Internet Crime Report. Cybercriminals have learned to bypass traditional security controls and outsmart even highly trained professionals with advanced phishing threats disguised as trusted individuals and brands. By doing so, they prompt unsuspecting employees to take action.

Signature-based email security controls by Fortra™’s Agari inspect incoming messages for recognizable payloads such as viruses, Trojans, and Malware that have been previously reported. Modern attacks often come as plain text email messages with no recognizable payload.

To stop phishing-based threats at scale, Agari takes a new approach with the Agari Identity Graph at its core. By uniquely learning sender-receiver behavior to model “the good”, Agari Phishing Defense can quickly detect “the bad” to identify and stop advanced phishing attacks such as spear phishing, Business Email Compromise (BEC), and Vendor Email Compromise (VEC) attacks.

Phishing and BEC attack tactics are also constantly evolving. Some threats activate post-delivery by weaponizing links after the emails pass security controls and land in employee inboxes. To neutralize latent phishing and BEC scams that evaded initial detection and have been previously delivered to the inbox, Agari continuously scans employee inboxes for the latest indicators of compromise (IOC) drawn from research conducted by the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division (ACID).