Email Security for Saudi Organisations
Anti-phishing, impersonation protection, and authentication hardening, closing the entry point behind most incidents before a user ever sees the message.
Phishing remains the most common way in
Email is the initial access route behind most incidents we investigate, ahead of exploited software. NCA ECC-2:2024's Cybersecurity Defence domain names email protection as an explicit control requirement, deployed and centrally managed rather than left to a mail platform's default filtering.
This service covers the layers that stop a phishing email or a spoofed sender identity from reaching an inbox or being trusted once it does: filtering and sandboxing at the gateway, authentication records that let receiving servers verify a message actually came from you, and impersonation detection for the lookalike-domain and display-name attacks that authentication alone does not catch.
What the service covers
Anti-Phishing & Sandboxing
Gateway filtering and attachment sandboxing that blocks known-malicious and newly-registered senders before a message reaches an inbox.
Authentication Hardening
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configured and enforced, so receiving servers can verify a message actually came from your domain.
Impersonation Protection
Detection for lookalike domains, display-name spoofing, and business email compromise attempts that authentication records alone do not catch.
Ongoing Tuning
Filtering policy reviewed and adjusted as attack patterns shift, rather than configured once at deployment and left on default.
Why authentication records are not optional
DMARC Without Enforcement Does Nothing
A DMARC record set to 'none' reports on spoofing attempts without blocking any of them. Enforcement mode is the part that actually stops delivery.
The Control Is Named Explicitly
NCA ECC-2:2024 expects email protection as a deployed, centrally managed control, not a mail platform's default spam filter.
Business Email Compromise Skips Malware Entirely
A well-crafted impersonation email asking for a wire transfer contains no attachment and no malicious link, which is why authentication and impersonation detection matter as much as anti-malware filtering.
How deployment runs
Authentication Review
1 weekAssess current SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records against every service that legitimately sends mail on your domain, so enforcement doesn't break a system nobody remembered.
Gateway Deployment & Tuning
1-2 weeksDeploy or reconfigure filtering and sandboxing, then tune against your actual mail flow. Default thresholds miss targeted attempts and flag legitimate mail.
DMARC Enforcement
2-4 weeksMove DMARC from monitoring to enforcement in staged steps, watching reports at each stage to avoid blocking legitimate senders.
Ongoing Management
OngoingPolicy tuning, new-sender review, and monthly reporting on blocked and flagged messages.
What is included
Check whether your mail domain can be spoofed
A free cybersecurity maturity assessment scores your email, endpoint, and identity controls against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
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