Cloudflare to offer all customers a significant security boost

Date:
Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:01:17 +0000

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Enterprise-grade email security isn't just for giant firms, Cloudflare says.

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Cloudflare has announced a raft of new security tools for all its customers
as it unveils a major safety push.

The company says that email continues being one of the biggest security threats for organizations, with various security tools being too expensive, overly complex, and hard to implement.

Thats why the company believes true email security has until now been
reserved for Fortune 100 companies. This is about to change, with the new "enterprise-grade" services being made available when Cloudflares acquisition of Area 1 Security closes, the company confirmed. TechRadar needs you!

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We recently made a significant investment in email security by agreeing to
buy Area 1 Security, explained Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.

In the spirit of democratizing email security, we plan to bring several critical capabilities to businesses of any size. This is the future of Zero Trust securitywhere you have an integrated, one-click approach to securing
any and all of your business applications.

Company networks and communications infrastructure is mostly robust these days, with various defense mechanisms in place, such as firewalls, two-factor authentication, biometrics, zero-trust network architecture, antivirus software , and more. That is why threat actors target employees, instead of systems, as they have become the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain.
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What is phishing and how dangerous is it?

This phishing kit is wreaking havoc on thousands of victims

To reach those employees, threat actors will sometimes use social media networks, but most of the time, theyll use email, as its cheap, easily automated, and widely used. Emails are used to phish out login credentials
and other sensitive information, distribute backdoors, malware , trojans and ransomware, or to learn more about the target company and its cybersecurity posture.

In order to stay secure, security software alone will not suffice, experts
are warning. Instead, companies are urged to educate their employees on the dangers of phishing and social engineering, and conduct regular training sessions and phishing simulations, to assess the state of their security.
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