The selection of EveryCloud as a technology partner for the threat protection in MPmail was in part influenced by their extensive threat heuristic technology and performance on successfully blocking PHISHing attacks, Cryptolocker emails and Macro Viruses.
EveryCloud continue to evolve this technology with new waves of cryptolocker and phising mails resulting in the development of some new features for our email security services. The new features will be bundled under the name “Advanced Threat Protection” (ATP) and sold as an option on top of the spam filter service.
There will be the following features:
- Sandboxing: Unpacking, execution and behaviour analysis of attachments in a separate, secure environment
- Link Scanning: Behaviour analysis of URLs embedded in emails; includes sandboxing where appropriate
- Link Rewriting: Replacing URLs in emails with URLs that redirect to our MPweb security web filtering technology
- Spear Fishing Filter: New Heuristic filters identifying emails with targeted attacks
- Freezing: Temporary freeze of suspicious emails for later automatic release along with repeated virus scans during freeze period using updated signatures
- Ex Post Alarms: Automatic alarms/reports in case of undetected malware forwarded to customers
The first release of the new ATP option (without the ex post alarms – this feature will follow later) is planned for end of August this year. Pricing will be announced as the services become available.