According to market analysts, cloud adoption has surged since 2021 and is expected to continue to grow in 2023. Email security is no exception, as more businesses embrace digital transformation to stay competitive.
Industry experts evaluated the native capabilities of Microsoft and claimed that although Office 365 provides basic email hygiene capabilities, including anti-spam, anti-phishing, and anti-malware technologies, it may not provide sufficient protection against advanced threats targeting businesses today. Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and they are constantly developing new ways to bypass traditional security measures. This is where an advanced email security solution like OPSWAT MetaDefender Cloud Email Security can help to maximize the protection.
Advanced Threat Detection with Multiscanning
One of OPSWAT MetaDefender Cloud Email Security’s key features is the Multiscanning technology, which helps protect against zero-day malware. Multiscanning is an advanced threat detection technology that involves over 20 market-leader antivirus engines to scan email bodies and attachments using signature-based, heuristic and machine-learning technologies. This approach is highly effective because it increases the malware detection rate to 99% while reducing the exposure to zero-day malware to virtually zero.
Zero-Day Threat Prevention with Deep CDR
What about unknown or zero-day exploits that have not been discovered by the security community, and thus their virus definition signature does not yet exist?
This is where Deep CDR (Content Disarm and Reconstruction) technology can be applied. Deep CDR is an advanced threat-prevention technology that does not rely on detection but rather sanitizes emails attachments such as archives, PDFs, and embedded office documents.
Deep CDR analyzes every email and attachment to disarm all active objects that may include zero-day exploits. Once the sanitization is finished, it regenerates a safe file with the same functionality and characteristics as the original. Deep CDR supports 130+ file types, including password-protected multilevel archive files, to prevent document-based threats from entering highly secure infrastructures. Another key advantage of the Deep CDR technology is that it is on average 30 times faster than traditional detection-based approaches such as deep-analysis security solutions.
By integrating these two technologies, OPSWAT Cloud Email Security maximizes email protection against advanced threat actors. This is particularly important to Office 365 users, as Microsoft offers only native security capabilities, while OPSWAT provides a higher detection rate of malware as well as prevention against unknown exploits. Complementing Microsoft 365 Enterprise packages with OPSWAT Cloud Email Security enables organizations to gain advanced email protection and reduce the security burden on their users, resulting in peace of mind for IT experts.
Learn more about how OPSWAT can help you advance your email security to the max.
