Reporting is essential to validate that your current email security strategy works as expected in stopping suspicious emails, malicious email content, and other suspicious activities.
Trustifi, a global email security cloud-based platform powered by AI, understands the criticalness of compliance and email security reporting.
When was the last time you looked at the email security report? It may be time!
Benefits of Comprehensive Reporting.
Reporting is essential for an organization to determine the actual threat against the organization. Is the threat specific to malicious content, phishing emails, or business email compromise? Are the hackers and phishes attacking email services, particular groups of email addresses, or just executing several advanced AI-generated threats?
Email security reporting gives the organization valuable insight to help determine if phishing attempts are successful or lead to other attack vectors.
Around 90% of the emails businesses receive are considered spam, meaning they are unwanted and potentially harmful. A lack of an efficient anti-spam solution can significantly affect an organization’s productivity because of the time wasted dealing with spam, graymail, and malicious links.
But there’s more than that. There will also be monetary repercussions. One successful cyberattack can have far-reaching effects on your business. The IBM 2023 Cost of Data Breach report shows that the average cost has climbed to $4.55 million.
Email security reporting gives security operations teams (SecOps), IT email engineering, and compliance teams similar views on the status of the email security posture. Trustifi’s consolidated email security module helps create several reports widely used by SecOps and compliance teams, including:
- URL Protection Report
- Ransomware Malware Detection Report
- Domain Spoofing Detection Report
- Top Inbound Threat
Users accessing the Trustifi management console can leverage the automated and on-demand reporting wizard to help create their various content artifacts.
Reporting on What the Email Security is Stopping is Valuable Insight.
Successful email phishing attacks, ransomware, and credential harvesting financially affect the organization. Reporting validates of the email security architecture is effectively blocking known and unknown attacks.
The reporting becomes even more robust thanks to Trustifi’s AI-powered inbound email filters blocking many phishing email zero-day attacks created with WormGPT and FraudGPT.
Along with understanding what attacks are being blocked, email security reporting also helps present-day showing attacks, including ones caused by misconfiguration and human error.
Essential Reports Monitoring Human Error and Financial Losses.
If your company invests in email security, consider external elements that could have severe consequences for your business. Internal errors, including misconfiguration of policies and rules, also lead to data breaches and account takeovers.
As more clients move toward a SaaS-based email security platform like Trustifi, organizations still need personnel with a security mindset. Having trained email security engineers is essential in ensuring the client portion of the SaaS-based platform becomes appropriately managed. Reporting plays a considerable role because the presented data helps the organization validate that the client-side policies and rules are working as expected.
For example, within the Trustifi centralized console, clients can click on various compliance policies to help meet their multiple mandates. If, for a moment, the SecOps team did not enable a policy for GPDR or PCI-DSS, the consolidated reporting platform embedded within the Trustifi solution would report this.
While reporting may seem mundane to most people in IT, SecOps and compliance teams rely on frequent and accurate reporting. Their reporting data often becomes forwarded to outside counsel, cyber insurance carriers, and law enforcement. It is essential to produce these reports accurately to avoid an additional risk to the organization.
Challenges in Implementing Email Security Reporting.
Creating an email security reporting strategy starts with understanding the needs of the organizations over the needs of company individuals. Creating a reporting strategy needs to focus on ensuring the information being presented within the various reports is accurate, timely, and delivered securely—another essential part of the reporting strategy centers on removing duplication of efforts with redundant content.
Consumers of the email security incident response become wary and exhausted by reading the same information across several reports. Reducing duplication and defining pieces specific to a department or a group of leaders helps with better retention and consumption of the data.
The Value of Email Security Reporting for Your Organization.
Similar to writing a novel, the reports need to tell a clear and concise story. For example, the compliance department files information specific to a PCI-DSS compliance audit validating the email security platform encrypts all outbound messages, and uses data tokenization.
Using the Trustifi reporting console, SecOps teams can define specific compliance reports by department and user group along with the information cadence to ensure these teams access the data quickly and efficiently.
Why Trustifi?
Trustifi offers a consolidated solution pricing to support small and midsize enterprise marketplaces. Trustifi requires fewer security operations, time allocation, and management resources.
Trustifi’s agile platform offers several proven security controls to help prevent the following attacks:
- Next-Gen Phishing: Trustifi uses AI, feeds, and proprietary metrics to detect and quarantine malicious emails, URLs, and files that aim to steal the recipient’s data
- Credential Theft – Account Takeover: Trustifi has unique metrics to detect malicious emails even though they come from a known contact and allows listed senders.
Comprehensive Reporting module easily customized to meet your organization’s reporting mandates.
