Cibecs Email Threat Protection

Ninety-six percent of security threats begin with an email. That is not a scare statistic — it is a Verizon finding that has held consistent for years. The reality is that native email filtering in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace catches the bulk of spam, but consistently misses the sophisticated, targeted attacks that actually cause damage: spear-phishing, business email compromise, weaponised attachments, and time-delayed malicious links.

Cibecs Email Threat Protection is built to catch what native filters miss. The platform uses advanced, automated defence mechanisms including Attachment Quarantine, which performs forensic analysis in a secure cloud-based sandbox. Suspicious attachments are either blocked outright or delivered as disarmed files — converted to safe formats like PDF — so users can still access the content without the risk. Link Protection rewrites all URLs to safe versions and performs time-of-click analysis, automatically redirecting users or blocking malicious sites even if the link was safe when the email was first delivered but has since been weaponised.

The standout feature for Microsoft 365 environments is Message Retraction. If a malicious email makes it through to a user's inbox, administrators can pull it back out — even after it has been delivered and potentially opened. This is backed by a 24/7/365 Live Threat Analyst Team that continuously identifies new threats, updates the system's defences, and provides early warnings to prevent breaches before they escalate. It is the kind of human-plus-machine approach that purely automated solutions simply cannot match.