Good point. My primary email is Outlook.com and all links have that “safe links protection” for embedded URLs in email.Email accounts are with gmail (primary) and outlook... the first line of defense.
How does this protect you? (I'm not disagreeing. Just want to know the mechanism.)I rely on Quad9 DNS to hopefully detect threatening domain names clicked in emails or websites.
How does this protect you? (I'm not disagreeing. Just want to know the mechanism.)
They incorporate threat intelligence feeds into their DNS replies, hopefully blocking (NXDOMAIN) any threatening domain lookups.How does this protect you? (I'm not disagreeing. Just want to know the mechanism.)
Yes, a malicious email would need to get through:So the protection prevents link clicks to "bad" websites, i.e. the email still comes through, but the bad links are dead.
I've had a good experience with SpamHero. I'd never have or will host anything on a local server and have hosted my email domains on my host provider's servers since I've been on the tubes.I have a customer here who uses Zerospam (a local mail filtering service provider). It allows to get mail filtering services regardless of your mail hosting provider.
So the protection prevents link clicks to "bad" websites, i.e. the email still comes through, but the bad links are dead.
Quite a few years ago, one of my customer got hit by a ransomware. They were running Trend Micro Worry-Free on their network. The ransomware managed to encrypt a few folders, at which point the Trend Micro suite detected it, and neutralized it. So we only needed to restore a few folders from their backup.Main concern now is ransomware, so maintain offline backups.
Never heard of them, but it looks fairly similar to Zerospam.I've had a good experience with SpamHero.
I rely on Quad9 DNS to hopefully detect threatening domain names clicked in emails or websites. I don’t trust ad-block lists to handle this.
I assume it is updated closer to real-time than ad-block tools that usually update the local copy daily. I could be wrong, but I accept the risk.But Quad9 is basically a bad domain list .....
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