The BCC Attack

A simple, but effective, way to bypass traditional scanners is by adding the recipient as a BCC.

Read more

WHO Are You? Hackers Spoof World Health Organization

As governments around the world have paid out relief checks during the COVID-19 crisis, it might seem reasonable to receive some form of email communication from gov...

Read more

API-Based Email Security: Why Comprehensive URL Scanning is Essential

Many attacks detonate post-delivery, meaning they easily get by email scanners and are only dangerous after the user clicks on the link. URL rewriting, along with ti...

Read more

As Vaccine Mandates Spread, So Too Do Vaccine Scams

As long as COVID-19 vaccines have been readily available, there have been scammers looking to profit from it. According to Check Point Research, the following have b...

Read more

API-Based Email Security: Why You Need Content Disarm & Reconstruction

The majority of ransomware and malware starts with phishing. In fact, according to Check Point, more than 70% of malicious email attachments or links were sent via P...

Read more

The Importance of Accurate Installations

When we talk about the importance of artificial intelligence in email security, we talk about the ineffective nature of rules. Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) apply the...

Read more

It's Always a Good Time to Start Protecting Against Ransomware

This week, governments from around the world came together and agreed that ransomware represents "an escalating global security threat."

Read more

How Impersonation Attacks Fool Users

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Each week has a theme. This week's theme? Fight the Phish. This blog shows a typical impersonation attack and how ...

Read more

Why Customers Switch From Secure Email Gateways to Avanan

Many of our customers come to Avanan from Secure Email Gateways. For example, in the last quarter, 30.9% of our new customers switched from Mimecast.

Read more

14-Day Free Trial – Experience the power and simplicity of Avanan Cloud Security.   Start Free Trial