Mark Sparshott, Proofpoint’s executive director, recently spoke at Computing’s IT Leaders’ Forum event in London. Sparshott said that cybercriminals use clever psychological tricks to entice users to interact with malicious emails – spearphishing.

All these attacks leverage clever techniques to bypass traditional reputation and content-based checking at the time of delivery. Once in the inbox, they leverage an understanding of how humans work to make them click the link, where the payloads that attack the system flaws on the device the user is browsing from occur. . .  At the time the email is delivered, the email, and the sites it links to can all be clean. Once it has been safely delivered to users’ inboxes, however, the cyber criminals add the malware payload to their sites.

Without SP Guard, personnel receiving spearphishing emails are left to guesswork in determining if the email should be trusted. That guesswork is made in a decision space that is manipulated by the attacker. With SP Guard installed, IT is able to provide personnel with real-time identification of trusted senders.

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