StreamScan's anti-phishing MDR monitoring service protects you against phishing risks

How Streamscan protects you against phishing

Your organization is constantly facing phishing attempts and it's causing you serious trouble and even nightmares? You are no exception! This is a daily occurrence for many organizations.

In fact, since the beginning of COVID-19 and the transition to telecommuting, we have seen an explosion in phishing cases and no organization has been spared. Phishing was the number one computer attack vector in 2021. It will also be the case in 2022.

Awareness alone will not protect you from phishing

While a great security measure on paper, awareness programs have mixed results in organizations. The main reasons are:

Cyberattacks and phishing scenarios evolve too quickly
Failure to tailor awareness periods
Humans rarely learn from unfamiliar mistakes

As you can see, don't rely solely on your phishing campaigns and tests to protect yourself.

One day or another, an employee will click on a malicious link

Despite your multiple awareness campaigns, you can never eliminate the risk of employees clicking on a phishing email. According to Verizon's latest 2021 Security Breach Report, the average click-through rate during phishing campaigns is 3%. The extreme cases are around 30%.

In other words, no matter what you do, an employee will eventually click. And that's just it, the hacker only needs one person to click on his malicious email or file in order to enter your network.

Anti-phishing monitoring as a solution to awareness shortcomings

It is clear that you will never be able to prevent one or more employees from clicking on malicious emails or links. However, you can react as soon as an employee clicks on them and eliminate the impact of the event. To do this, you must monitor the security of your email solution 24/7, detect all suspicious email movements and deal with them quickly before they become a problem. This is where you need to focus your efforts.

Streamscan's anti-phishing monitoring to protect you against phishing risks

We regularly intervene in companies that are victims of hacking and phishing to help them limit the impact and get back into production as quickly as possible.

This solid experience has allowed us to build a unique expertise in proactive monitoring of email solutions (O365, etc.) to detect phishing and other malicious email activities.

How Streamscan's anti-phishing monitoring service works

We take over the management of your email solution (O365, etc.) in 24/7 mode. This is done in 2 steps:

Step 1: Make sure your email solution is properly configured to detect/block malicious activity.

Most of the time these email solutions are put into production with default configurations that are permissive and offer very little security. We diagnose your email solution and make sure that the required measures are in place. For example, malicious files attached to emails will be deleted, the user will not be able to click on a link considered malicious, an alert will be generated in case of a suspicious user connection, real-time alerting will be activated and more.

If you are constantly facing phishing emails, there is a very good chance that your email solution is misconfigured. In this case, talk to one of our experts. They can help you greatly reduce the volume of phishing emails entering your organization.

Step 2: Activate Anti-Phishing Monitoring

Next, we put your email solution under surveillance. It will be monitored by email security experts from our Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team.

This combination of technology and human expertise allows us to keep you safe from phishing. Examples:

Detection of targeted phishing campaigns
Identification of successful phishing scams resulting in password theft
Identification of your hacked email boxes
Improbable connections (e.g. when a user reads his emails in Montreal at 9:00 am and at 9:05 am he logs in to read them from Europe). This is a clear sign that the user's mailbox has been hacked
Potential frauds
In case of a proven phishing attempt :

Identification of all employees who received the same email and elimination of that email.
Identify the employees who clicked on the malicious link and isolate their computer for further analysis
Change the passwords of all employees whose passwords have been stolen
etc.

If a problem is found, our incident response team will step in and help you eradicate it as quickly as possible.

Proactive monitoring combined with threat intelligence

In addition to 24/7 security monitoring of your email solution, we work in collaboration with your internal teams. This allows us to alert you if there are factors that make us think you may be the target of a phishing campaign. For example:

When you appear in the media to talk about increased sales or give good news, you will systematically appear under the radar of hackers and will experience increases in phishing attempts.
When a pharmaceutical company makes the front page in the media after having launched a new remedy. This company will be targeted by several phishing campaigns.
And so on.

Finally, the results of our anti-phishing monitoring will allow you to readjust your phishing campaigns for more efficiency.

This is how you will regain control over the security of your emails.

Are you interested in our anti-phishing monitoring service? Contact us at 1-877-208-9040 or talk to one of our experts.