Cosmos  Business Systems,  as  a Fortinet  partner,  recommends the  Forti Mail solution  to significantly reduce  malicious attacks on your email in order to improve the data security of your infrastructure.

Email is one of the key tools for increasing a company’s productivity and at the same time one of the favorite methods of cyberattacks when security is lacking.

Key Features of Fortimail

Multi-layered Anti-Spam protection
Multi-layered and content control technique to protect users from unwanted email.

Using a combination of checks, from reputation analysis, connection filtering, authentication and recipient verification, it allows email protection. Steps include checking IP, email Domain, sender, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and geographical restrictions, among others.

The structure and content of the message are analyzed based on the digital signature, keywords in the email content, image analysis, checking embedded web links and more advanced techniques such as behavioral analysis and spam protection. These techniques detect and block 99.7% of spam messages.

Powerful Anti-Malware
FortiMail protects against a wide range of constantly evolving threats, combining multiple dynamic technologies such as signature techniques, heuristic & behavioral analysis, artificial intelligence, virus activation prevention, etc.

Advanced Threat Protection
For even stronger defense against the latest threat groups like business email compromise and targeted attacks, FortiMail offers optional content cleaning and reconstruction, sandbox analysis, advanced email phishing detection, and more.

Enforcing incoming, outgoing and Anti-Spoofing (reverse DNS) rates protects against Denial of Service threats.

Comprehensive data loss prevention
A set of features and functions are available to prevent data loss as well as email encryption that provides security for any sensitive content. This facilitates compliance with corporate policies and regulations.

Cloud & On-Premise options Fortimail Security
The FortiMail deployment option supports Cloud, as well as on-premise installations for simpler functionality.

The on-premise option supports all known hypervisors such as HyperV, Vmware, AWS, Azure, etc.

Covers functions such as Mail Gateway, Full SMTP email server as well as native Integration with the Microsoft 365 API

Management, Reports and Logs
It offers the administrator detailed daily reports on critical inbox security statistics, central quarantine, collaboration with FortiAnalyzer, administrator access based on roles and responsibilities, as well as very fast initial setup.

Using FortiGuard Labs
FortiGuard Labs is Fortinet’s threat intelligence research organization. It is comprised of experienced cybersecurity experts, researchers, analysts, engineers, and data scientists. Its mission is to provide the best platform for cyber threat intelligence and protection against malicious cyber attacks.

With all the above features, the FortiMail service can act as a complement to Office 365 as there is complete cooperation between the two services.

All of the above features and functions can be assessed through Fortinet’s “Cyber ​​Threat Assessment – ​​CTAP” Email Infrastructure Risk Assessment Program. Upon completion of this program, you will receive a detailed report (see at the beginning of the article) which includes statistics on the number of infected email attachments, suspicious URL links, spam & newsletter emails, etc. It also includes general usage statistics (top senders, bandwidth usage, etc.).