Next generation email security addresses advanced threats

Despite other developments in malware, email remains a favourite route for attackers because it's easy for people to fall victim to phishing and other threats.

Network security company SonicWall is launching a new next-generation email security platform to help guard against ransomware, zero-day and advanced threats.

SonicWall Email Security 9.0 integrates with the Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service and uses cloud-based sandboxing technology to detect advanced threats by scanning a range of email attachment types. It then analyzes them in a multi-engine sandbox, blocking them until reviewed by an administrator, and rapidly deploying remediation signatures.

The solution incorporates anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spoofing features to not only detect and prevent spam and other unwanted email, but also scan email messages and attachments for ransomware, Trojan horses, worms and other types of malicious content.

It has improved support for Office 365, and an encryption service which ensures any email identified as containing protected data to be automatically encrypted, routed for approval or archived. Policy management lets admins filter messages and their contents as they enter or exit the organization to meet regulatory and other requirements.

"Our 2017 SonicWall Annual Threat Report found that email remains a highly successful attack vector for cyber criminals because it's all too easy for employees to fall victim to ransomware, phishing and unknown threats," says Bill Conner, president and CEO, SonicWall. "SonicWall is enabling customers to stay one step ahead of cyber criminals by bolstering our platform with innovations that inspect and render a verdict on all email coming into and going out of their organizations, while keeping performance and usability high."

SonicWall Email Security 9.0 will be available at the end of February and you can find out more on the SonicWall website. The company has also unveiled a preview of SonicOS 6.2.7 operating system, delivering better breach prevention, a new threat API, more scalability and connectivity, and ease of management.

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