Email Threat Protection is a term that refers to filtering inbound email through a checks system to identify and block potentially malicious messages and spam. It is one of many layers in a defense-in-depth approach to cybersecurity. Almost every nonprofit in the world utilizes email as a primary form of communicating both internally and with outside contacts, including vendors, clients, personal contacts, and even internal employees’ personal emails. This type of service utilizes artificial intelligence, signatures, and stateful analysis to make determinations about every email that passes through a series of filters.
The goal of an Email Threat Protection service is to reduce a nonprofit’s information security risk using technical controls. These technical controls block malicious and spam email outright or warn recipients that an email could possibly be spam or malicious.
