The following is a case study for cost savings discussing the challenges the small-to-medium market space faces each day with global threats while managing within limited resources. The small-to-medium (SMB) marketplace specifically is more impacted than the rest. SMBs face continued challenges in the following for email security and protection:
- Unable to support multiple security, compliance, and privacy mandates
- Unable to stay on the monitoring, response, and remediation of security events
- Unable to sustain the increase in licensing product maintenance and managed service costs across all products within their network.
- Lack of professional knowledge/expertise to create and maintain DLP and inbound security protection.
The study will compare the cost and solution offerings, including
- Traditional email security with multi-vendor leveraging internal security operations resources
- Traditional email security with multi-vendor leveraging a third-party managed services provider
- Trustifi advanced email security for SMB with internal security operations resources
- Trustifi advanced email security for SMB with security-as-a-service offering
Cost of a security breach increasing
Based on the latest report from IBM, the cost per breach, “data breach costs rose from USD 3.86 million to USD 4.24 million, the highest average total cost in the 17-year history of this report.”
With the rise of cyberattacks on the firms’ databases, services, networks, and bank accounts, assessing a company’s cybersecurity posture and risk capacity before hackers do is crucial for every business. One security breach can cause the permanent loss of clients’ and stakeholders’ trust and, in some situations, can even lead to bankruptcy.
Gartner clients increasingly express frustration with the operational complexity of the modern security stack, specifically the on-premise and cloud-based email security platforms. Given the human capital constraints to hiring and retaining qualified security teams, efficient cybersecurity remains out of reach for most organizations. As such, there is an increased desire to consolidate security products into multifunction solutions addressing a broad set of related challenges, such as securing “hybrid work” or “cloud workloads.”
Trustifi, a global leader in advanced email security, addressed Gartner’s concern about reducing operational complexity while consolidating protection services into one console and solution.
What are the critical pillars for email security?
Gartner’s analysts say that. “With the rise of Business Email Compromise-type phishing, no secure email gateway (SEG) is 100% effective in blocking all attacks. This increase requires an additional email security solution for organizations.
Ransomware, impersonation, and account takeover attacks are increasing and causing direct financial loss as users place too much trust in the identities associated with email.
The financial impact on organizations supporting email security
Email attacks have become more advanced and targeted; security architects often create a custom email security stack from multiple providers to protect against the evolving threat landscape. While this may help prevent attacks, it is expensive, complex, and difficult for an organization to manage effectively. Many of the multi-vendor solutions often lack proven interoperation and interconnect capabilities including accessing common APIs and data.
Most SMB companies do not have the budget to allocate several internal resources to support a complex email security solution. Many SMBs will consider leveraging a managed services provider to help with the operation and incident response. However, the cost per service will vary by provider.
Trustifi business value for email consolidation supporting the SMB market place
Organizations facing increases in attacks across legacy and evolving vulnerabilities can not continue to deploy additional products or services to solve the problem. In time, the client will have so many devices and service layers that the entire security posture becomes unmanageable.
- Trustifi, a global market leader in advanced email security consolidation, aligns strongly with the SMB marketplace to stop email-based threats and digital security risks while helping control costs.
- Trustifi consolidates the email security with one solution, one console, with the ease of management helping the SMB reduce cost while increasing their security resiliency.
Trustifi holistic approach to email security platform for SMB
Trustifi’s holistic email security service offers several capabilities to the SMB, including one-click compliance for email encryption, data loss prevention, inbound and outbound phish, malware protection, and security-as-a-service offering.
- The Trustifi Inbound Shield™ is cloud-based, easy to install, and doesn’t require any architecture changes. You get peace of mind that your emails are protected, without any complex setup or concerns about missing email messages. Plus, it deploys in minutes, not days.
- The Trustifi Outbound Shield automatically scans and encrypts outgoing email messages according to administrators’ policies, so any emails that contain sensitive information are automatically secured.
- The Trustifi One-click for compliance for encryption. With the One-Click Compliance tool, administrators can easily set the platform to screen emails to ensure they automatically comply with more than ten regulatory compliance guidelines including PCI-DSS, GPDR, CCPA, NIST-800-53, FEPRA, and ISO 27000 series.
- The Trustifi Data Loss Prevention. The system automatically scans outgoing emails and applies the rules set by your administrator, then finds the keywords and automatically encrypts and locks the relevant outgoing emails without any input from the user.
- The Trustifi cloud-based email archiving for e-discovery. Email archiving is required for organizations that face any form of e-discovery for lawsuits. Several states, including California (CCPA), mandates organizations to retain copies of the email for legal discovery purposes. Clients leveraging Trustifi’s email archive will have full access to copies of messages for e-discovery to support retention management, chain-of-custody, complex searching, and data export to third parties.
- Trustifi Account Compromise Detection Trustifi will immediately identify when an email account has been compromised across all departments, employees, and users.
Trustifi ease-of-use deployment and manageability. Trustifi email security can be enabled in minutes by leveraging API connections to O365 and Gmail or by relay to any other SMTP-based mail system. No complex setup, adjustments to A or MX records, or other changes to your DNS.
Trustifi cost savings for the SMB marketplace
With Trustifi vendor consolidation and reduction of resource cost allocation, they align to the needs of the SMB while not compromising on email protection.
Trustifi continues to add capabilities to its platform to help future-proof protection for its clients without adding additional complexity when enabling these new services.
To better support the SMB marketplace, Trustifi offers consolidated solution pricing for better cost savings. Trustifi requires fewer security operations, time allocation, and management resources. The solution is API based, not an appliance requiring a complex re-configuration of your email flow. Trustifi installs in minutes and requires no maintenance or upkeep. Trustifi’s security-as-a-service offers clients access to experts to assist with the implementation.
Trustifi Security-as-a-service optionFor SMB clients looking for complete turn-key email security solutions, Trustifi offers security-as-a-service.
- Full setup and configuration of the email security environment
- Daily review of quarantined emails and release of legitimate emails
- Adaptation of security to comply with companies regulations/compliances
- Custom DLP/encryption rules and policy creation
- Incidence response to minimize damage
- Monthly reporting of all incidents, findings, actions are taken, and recommendations
Benefits
- Hardening of the system to prevent the intrusion of all types of attacks, including advanced phishing, BEC, etc.
- Decreased response time to incidences
- Prevention of account takeovers
- Prevention of sensitive information leakage
- Prevention of internal attacks and any kind of email abuse
- Quick support for all email security-related issues SLA > 2 hours
- Ongoing recommendations to improve your security and efficiency
- Reduce risks of false-positives and improves the accuracy of security.
Trustifi security-as-a-service is a cost-saving value to the SMB.
Final Analysis – Trustifi delivers dollars back to the client’s business
By comparing all four options supporting 1000 users – SMB market, Trustifi’s vendor consolidation strategy along with leveraging security-as-a-service delivers a lower cost per year compared to traditional email security solutions requiring investments in security operations resources.
Conclusion
Trustifi is a cyber security firm featuring solutions delivered on software as a service platform. Trustifi leads the market with the easiest to use and deploy email security products, providing both inbound and outbound email security from a single vendor.
As a global cybersecurity provider of both inbound and outbound email protection, Trustifi currently supports customers from countries including the USA, Canada, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, the UK, the Netherlands, India, the UAE, China, Japan, Cyprus, the Philippines, and more. The company has also developed “One-Click Compliance” capabilities that cater to world security regulations, including PDPO for Hong Kong, POPI for South Africa, GDPR for Europe, and LGPD for Brazil.
