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VIPRE Launches New Integrated Email Security (IES), a Cloud Email Security Solution to Strengthen Security Measures

VIPRE Security Group, a global leader and award-winning cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection company, today announced the launch of its new VIPRE Integrated Email Security (IES) Solution.

This Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) application is a cloud-based email security solution that supplements the native security of cloud email providers (such as Microsoft 365) using advanced detection techniques to identify malicious emails and suspicious activity.

ICES empowers organizations to identify and address email security vulnerabilities to better defend against today’s threats, such as Business Email Compromise, AI-crafted Phishes, Deepfake media, and more. For partners, this solution provides a valuable addition to their offerings, enhancing their ability to deliver comprehensive security solutions to customers.

Integrated Email Security Solution

The VIPRE Integrated Email Security Solution offers organizations a powerful, all-in-one defense system against today’s most persistent email-based threats. Combining advanced AI-powered detection, comprehensive protection of internal emails, real-time threat intelligence, automated policy enforcement, and seamless Microsoft 365 integration, this comprehensive solution helps businesses protect sensitive communications, block malicious content, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

“We are proud to deliver a fully integrated email security solution that empowers organizations to stay protected against the ever-evolving email threat landscape, without sacrificing simplicity,” said Oliver Paterson, director, product management, at VIPRE Security Group. “In a time when email remains the number one attack vector, this solution ensures our customers have the layered, adaptive protection needed to outpace evolving threats.”

The VIPRE Integrated Email Security Solution is available as a standalone service or as part of VIPRE’s broader suite of cybersecurity offerings. Its flexible deployment and integration capabilities support organizations in building a unified, layered security strategy tailored to their evolving business needs. 

Sending Emails No Longer A Security Problem For Healthcare

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By Oliver Paterson, director of product management, VIPRE Security Group.

The healthcare sector is predicated on protecting all sensitive information for a practice and its patients. Threats come from every direction, whether through email, an attachment, a malicious link, or simply the penetration of a security system.

Solutions are aplenty but with various degrees of effectiveness and durability, not to mention complexity and quality of protection for the practice, all are important factors when measuring benefits versus risk. As healthcare practice leaders attempt to mitigate their continuous onslaughts of threats, possible breaches, and potential bad actors, automating security measures can alleviate trouble, distractions, and chaos caused by a breach or other malicious activity. 

While most in healthcare don’t like to discuss the ugly but open secret, email is a significant factor in many data breaches. Therefore, advanced levels of protection for Outlook and other email servers are essential, and add-on solutions solve the problem of misaddressed emails and prevent data leakage.

Technology that scans for sensitive keywords, personally identifiable information (PII), or data patterns inside the email body or attachments can provide practices with a critical layer of security.  

Confirm External Recipients and Attachments

Using data loss awareness (DLA) technology, users can confirm the practice’s external recipients (those receiving a message from the practice) before messages are sent. Such an integrated solution “asks” whether everyone on an email recipient list should be seeing the sensitive information contained, so the message is not sent to someone by mistake. Likewise, this prevents misaddressed emails or inadvertent auto-fill email mistakes.

Email breaches from accidental data loss can result in fines, regulatory non-compliance notices, and even litigation for a medical practice. Additionally, medical practices can (and should) seek solutions that proactively help users to prevent accidental data loss and keeps all sensitive information from leaving the organization

In such environments, all settings should be configurable and specified on a per-user or per-group basis. In addition, healthcare organizations should automate activity logs for all potential occurrences with a complete audit trail stored locally or centrally and supporting Outlook local languages, as these are often needed should you be audited.  

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