Cisco unveils new email security services to protect employees devices

KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 (Bernama) -- Cisco Systems Inc announced Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints -- a new email security services to protect users from fraudulent emails and protect employees' devices from ransomware, cryptomining and fileless malware.

With this Cisco is now one of the few organizations paving the way toward eliminating email identity deception, senior vice-president of Product for Cisco\'s Security Business Group, Jeff Reed said.

Cisco AMP's new malicious activity protection stops ransomware execution, killing the processes and preventing propagation, as well as the threat investigation with Cisco Visibility - a new cloud application built to simplify and accelerate security investigations.

Cisco in a statement said nearly all endpoint security solutions claim to block 99 per cent of malware and Cisco AMP -- a cloud-managed endpoint security solution, able to prevent attacks and helps uncover the one percent of threats, that possibly would cripple a business.

The company has also concluded an original equipment manufacturer agreement with Agari to market and sell new services that enhance its email security product, which are; Cisco Domain Protection and Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection.

Cisco Domain Protection used to automate the process of using email authentication to prevent phishing, protect brands from fraud and maintain email governance by analyzing, updating and taking action against senders misusing their domain to send malicious email.

While the Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection adds sophisticated machine learning capabilities to Cisco Email Security to block advanced identity deception attacks for inbound email by assessing its threat posture.

"Cisco understands that protecting employees and their endpoints requires more than just antivirus. Attackers leverage the Internet, email and the network as vectors for breaching the endpoint," said Reed.

"We deliver greater employee protection using cloud-delivered defense against threats hosted on the Internet. Cisco is also now one of the few organizations paving the way toward eliminating email identity deception," Reed added.

Further details about the new services can be accessed at www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/.