Secure Communications
Introducing Egress
With 74% of incidents involving a human element, people represent the greatest risk to organisations’ security. People are also most vulnerable when using email, with 94% of organisations experiencing inbound and outbound email security incidents in the last 12 months.
Consequently, solving human risk in cloud email is the most urgent priority for organisations globally.
Egress is the only cloud email security platform to continuously assess human risk and dynamically adapt policy controls, preparing customers to defend against advanced phishing attacks and outbound data breaches before they happen. Leveraging contextual machine learning and neural networks, with seamless integration using cloud-native API architecture, Egress provides enhanced email protection, deep visibility into human risk, and instant time to value.
Egress is the only cloud email security platform to continuously assess human risk and dynamically adapt policy controls, defending against advanced phishing attacks and outbound data breaches.
Detect and Prevent
Egress Defend: AI-powered behavioural-based phishing detection
An integrated cloud email security solution (ICES), Defend uses zero-trust and pre-generative modelling to deliver the highest efficacy of phishing threat detection. By learning email behaviour patterns, Defend detects anomalies that are indicative of the advanced phishing threats that get through Microsoft’s native email security and secure email gateways (SEGs). This allows Defend to detect email attacks early in the cyber kill chain, protecting against threats such as ransomware.
Defend’s self-learning detection technologies require minimal configuration and ongoing maintenance from admins. Plus, M-SOAR capabilities provide actionable intelligence for rapid incident response and remediation to reduce MTTR.
Additionally, advanced graymail detection increases employee productivity and reduces administrator burden. Leveraging Defend’s patented AI-based phishing detection functionality, Egress intelligently classifies graymail and moves it to a dedicated folder before it reaches the inbox. This ensures employees can focus on priority messages, while reducing the noise in the inbox by segmenting graymail. An interactive banner is added to each message that is routed to the graymail folder, which provides a simple workflow for employees to re-categorize emails and divert them
back into their mailbox. Users’ preferences are automatically learned by Defend, allowing users to customize their own experience without any management overhead
This avoids the potential for misclassification of legitimate email that comes with self-learning graymail detection systems, while eliminating administrative overhead for graymail management.
Egress Prevent: intelligent email data loss prevention
Prevent uses supervised and unsupervised machine learning to proactively stop email data loss and data exfiltration incidents before they happen. Through a combination of intelligent technologies (including machine learning, social graph, and contextual content analysis) Prevent detects anomalies that are indicative of human error or malicious intent. Contextual prompts engage users at the point of risk, enabling them to work efficiently and securely.
Egress Protect: Easy-to-use email encryption
Protect provides government and industry-certified security and authentication for protecting email content and attachments, including large files, in transit and at rest. Granular controls allow user flexibility and support low administration overhead while comprehensive audit and reporting helps meet regulatory requirements.
Automatic encryption ensures emails are secured based on your security policy. Flexible sender controls and recipient authentication options significantly reduce the user friction often associated with encryption to support widespread adoption. Protect’s AES 256-bit email encryption supports multiple use cases to align with your security policy. It also supports multi-factor authentication, customizable policy control, and access to secure information via mobile devices.
Adaptive Security Architecture for Cloud Email
Egress Intelligent Email Security is the only platform to provide adaptive security architecture for cloud email. Egress partners with other security vendors to share intelligence, predict risk, and eliminate threats. Egress Human Risk Management aggregates product telemetry with data from across organisation’s cybersecurity ecosystems to offer continuous visibility into high-risk areas, with actionable advice and dynamic policy management. As individual risk scores change against the evolving threat landscape, Egress automates threat detection and response, tailoring controls for each employee. Bidirectional integration enables Egress’ intelligence to be used to enhance third-party solutions, such as auto-enrollment in security awareness training (SAT) programs based on the real phishing threats that users face.
In-the-moment training
Egress also provides in-the-moment training through real-time teachable moments. These ‘nudges’ are proven to be the most effective way to engage employees and sustainably improve security behaviour. A powerful combination of contextual banners and prompts provide in-the-moment education when people need it most. Our approach augments existing security SAT programs and measurably reduces risk over time.
Indicate a threat
In Defend, a dynamic colour-coded (heat-based) warning system immediately alerts users to the level of risk when interacting with an email. Simple language explains which aspects of an email indicate a threat, providing employees with coaching in context at the point of risk.
Stay alert
Egress Prevent presents users with a risk shield and side panel display that notifies them of potential risks with their selected recipients in real-time as they compose an email. If a user tries to send a risky email, an on-send prompt will alert them to the exact risk or error in their message and provide a suggested solution. Prompts naturally create friction for users and alert fatigue can diminish their response over time. Prevent will only prompt when a breach is about to occur.
Features and Benefits
Features
- Detects and protects against both inbound and outbound email threats
- Adaptive security architecture provides automatic security controls
- Detects and neutralizes sophisticated phishing attacks that evade existing email security
- Prevents misaddressed emails and incorrectly attached files
- Intelligent detection of threats and anomalies with social graphing, machine learning, and natural language processing
- Engages and empowers users with color-coded, contextual warnings and prompts
- M-SOAR capabilities enable incident investigation and remediation
Benefits
- A single platform that detects and prevents both inbound and outbound email threats
- Adaptive security architecture prepares organizations for threats before they materialize
- Lowers administration overhead with intelligent self-learning technology
- Augments security awareness by engaging users at the point of risk with real-time teachable moments
- Significantly lowers time to respond to and remediate email-related incidents
- Proactive human risk quantification with actionable intelligence
- Fast to deploy with immediate time to value