Checklist: 10 Considerations to Shape Your Cloud Email Security Strategy

While every organization has different requirements when it comes to cloud email security, there is little denying that there is a need for a solution to block the increasing threat of socially-engineered attacks and other malicious emails that bypass legacy solutions.

Most enterprises recognize that their existing technologies aren’t providing an adequate level of protection against email-based threats. And while they may want to improve their security posture, it can be difficult to find the right solution.

Our checklist, 10 Considerations to Shape Your Cloud Email Security Strategy, will help you understand what you need from a cloud email security platform and ensure you ask the right questions when evaluating potential solutions.

1. Identify which email-based threats concern you the most and understand how the solution stops them.

2. Determine which detection signals you want the solution to use.

3. Verify how end users are able to access their email accounts.

4. Establish how you prefer to remediate malicious mail.

5. Decide how many email security solutions you’re willing (or able) to operate.

6. Identify which management tasks are consuming the most time and effort.

7. How much time will your security team save on investigation and reporting after implementation?

8. Decide what types of insights you need.

9. Establish how you want to address time-wasting email like graymail.

10. Know with which third-party technologies the platform must integrate.

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