Email Security
Email is the most exploited attack vector in the world. Not because email is insecure — but because humans are predictable.
An employee receives what looks like a message from their CEO asking them to process an urgent wire transfer. The email address is slightly different — one character swapped — but the display name is correct, the tone is right, and the urgency feels real. They process the payment. €47,000 is gone.
Another employee receives a shared document notification from a supplier they work with regularly. They click the link, enter their Microsoft 365 credentials on what looks like a login page, and move on with their day. They've just handed their credentials to an attacker who now has full access to your email environment, your SharePoint, your Teams, and every file they contain.
These aren't hypothetical scenarios. These are cases we see every month across European businesses. The attacks have become so refined that even security-aware employees fall for them — because the emails are indistinguishable from legitimate messages without technical analysis.
Microsoft 365's built-in protection catches bulk spam and known malware. It was never designed to stop targeted phishing, business email compromise, or zero-day payloads. That's a different class of threat that requires a different class of defence.
What we deploy
Pre-delivery scanning — Every inbound email is analysed before it reaches the inbox. URL reputation, sender authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), attachment sandboxing, and natural language analysis of the message body. Threats are quarantined. Clean emails are delivered.
Real-time link protection — URLs in emails are rewritten and scanned at click-time, not just at delivery. If a link was clean when the email arrived but weaponised an hour later — which is a common technique — our protection catches it at the moment the employee clicks.
Impersonation detection — Machine learning analysis of sender behaviour, writing style, and domain patterns to catch CEO impersonation, supplier impersonation, and domain spoofing. The kind of attack that costs European businesses millions every year.
Attachment sandboxing — Every attachment is detonated in an isolated environment before delivery. If a PDF or Excel file executes malicious code in the sandbox, it's quarantined — your employee never sees it.
Outbound DLP — Data loss prevention scanning on outgoing email to catch sensitive data — customer records, financial information, personal data — from leaving your organisation through email, whether by accident or intent.
What's included
Full deployment and configuration — We integrate with your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace in under an hour. No mail flow disruption. No DNS downtime.
Quarantine management — We manage the quarantine queue, releasing false positives and investigating suspicious items. Your employees get a daily digest of quarantined messages.
Phishing incident response — When a phishing email does get through — and statistically, some eventually will — we investigate, determine if credentials were compromised, and initiate containment.
Monthly email threat reports — How many threats were blocked, what types, which employees were targeted most, and trends over time. Useful for security awareness planning and board-level reporting.
DMARC, SPF, and DKIM configuration — We configure and monitor your email authentication records to prevent attackers from spoofing your domain to send emails that appear to come from your company.
FAQ
"We already have Microsoft Defender for Office 365." Defender for Office 365 is a good baseline, but it consistently underperforms against targeted phishing and business email compromise compared to dedicated email security platforms. We layer advanced protection on top of Defender — think of it as adding a specialist on top of a generalist.
"Will this cause email delays?" No. Pre-delivery scanning adds milliseconds to email delivery. In practice, your employees will never notice. The only difference they'll see is fewer malicious emails in their inbox.
"Can our employees still report suspicious emails?" Yes — and we encourage it. We deploy a one-click report button in Outlook or Gmail. When an employee flags an email, it goes directly to our SOC for analysis. This reinforces good habits and gives us additional threat intelligence.
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