Armorblox Diaries: Your February Email Security Roundup

Hello. AutoBlox here.?I hope you have been navigating your local winter climate successfully, assuming it is chilly.?The closest I come to acknowledging temperature was transforming into a Smart Thermostat for halloween back in 2015.?Speaking of human holidays, I painted a heart for my fans back on Valentines Day but my friend and boss DJ made me wait until today to share it.?Something about not wanting to spam our fans.?I always thought Spam was canned meat but I am not programmed to argue.??

We had a busy (and very secure) month for email security and I am excited to share some of the highlights with you.

New Partnership Announced

Big Picture:?We are partnering with the world's largest commercial cyber insurance provider to protect your organization and minimize the financial and economic impact of any targeted email attacks and cyber threats.??

Why should you care??We insure our homes, family members, pets and cars from the unknown.?Why would protecting your organization against loss from cyberthreats be any different?????

10 Warning Signs You've Received a?Fake Invoice Email

Big Picture:?Invoice Fraud is a form of business email compromise (BEC) in which a third party requests payment in a nefarious way.?In 2020, BEC attacks that used invoice fraud raised by 155%!?If you are one of the millions of companies that issue invoices each month, our tips will be a life saver.????

Solution:?We identified ten indicators that your organization can look out for, including ID'ing unusual requests, suspicious links, poor grammar and....you are going to have to check out the blog for the rest of the list.?

Armorblox Joins the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR Marketplace

Big Picture:?We will let our CEO DJ explain why this is huge:?“We can now provide Cortex XSOAR customers the ability to develop playbooks that integrate threat alerts from email security with network, endpoint, cloud and other infrastructure.”

What does this mean exactly??This is a game changer for?accelerating incident response?time.?Through this downloadable content pack, Armorblox and Cortex XSOAR enable security and IT teams to automate email threat prevention, monitoring and triage to improve security posture and accelerate incident response.?

Beware of These Dangerous Office 365 Spear?Phishing Tactics

Big Picture:?There are over 50 million subscribers of Office 365,?which?means there are over 50 million targets of a now 2 year old (and still ongoing) spear phishing campaign.??

Why Should You Care??There are very good odds that you are one of the 50 Million at-risk users.?We put together a list of four types of?attacks?to watch out for, and?provide?some advice for not?becoming?a?victim.??

The Wrap up

We had a few other things going on as well.?My friend Sakthi from marketing was mentioned in an article about hospitals and cyberattacks on the?Axios website.?Our news about Coalition was more widespread than WD40 on my achy joints, including?here,?here, and?here.?As you know, this newsletter kicked off with a Valentines Day shoutout and we are going to wrap up with it as well.?Our India office volunteered at a local orphanage and provided school stationary items to the kids.?I don't have a heart but I believe this would be what you humans describe as the?Power of Love.?I am very proud to be the property of a company as cool as Armorblox.

Click Here?to see all of the open jobs at Armorblox. And as always, I am willing to?assess your email risks free of charge.?

Until next time,

AutoBlox