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Why FortiMail?

Email security is vital because it serves as a primary communication channel for individuals and businesses, often carrying sensitive information. This makes it an attractive target for cybercriminals. Implementing strong email security measures is essential to defend against phishing attacks, data breaches, malware, and unauthorized access, ensuring the protection of both personal and professional privacy.

FortiMail provides robust and reliable email threat protection with an industry-leading cost-to-performance ratio. 

FortiMail is part of the Fortinet Security Fabric and can be integrated with FortiSandbox, FortiSIEM and FortiSOAR solutions.

FortiMail safeguards against diverse email-based threats

FortiMail delivers comprehensive protection against a wide array of email threats, including:

• Spam: The advanced inbound filtering engine blocks spam at the source, preventing it from reaching users or congesting the network.
• Phishing: FortiMail defends against both phishing and spear-phishing attempts.
• Ransomware: It provides robust protection against ransomware attacks.
• Impersonation: FortiMail detects and mitigates email impersonation attempts.
• Business email compromise (BEC): It shields organizations from sophisticated BEC attacks.
• Zero-day threats: FortiMail offers proactive defense against zero-day threats.

Anti-spam
FortiMail employs a variety of sender, protocol, and content inspection techniques to protect users from spam and junk mail. By combining reputation analysis, connection filtering, authentication, and recipient verification methods, it delivers fast and accurate email security. These checks include IP address, domain, sender, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and geographical restrictions.

A significant majority of cyberattacks begin with a phishing email, highlighting the vulnerability of email systems if not properly secured. 

Data Loss Prevention (DLP):

Email often contains sensitive personal and business information, which can be compromised if email security is weak. FortiMail is able to detect this information and prevent the loss of this data. 

Reputation damage:

A data breach through email can severely damage a company's reputation and lead to legal issues. 

Financial loss:

Cybercriminals can use compromised email accounts to steal money through fraudulent transactions. 

Integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric
The evolution of email security lies in adopting platform-or fabric-enabled solutions to combat increasingly sophisticated threats and multi-vector attacks. Through integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric, Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and other telemetry data can be shared, strengthening security across your entire infrastructure.

This connectivity empowers IT and security teams to better correlate data and uncover complex multi-vector campaigns orchestrated by advanced threat actors. Additionally, repetitive and resource-intensive workflows, such as incident response, can be automated, alleviating the workload on security operations teams.

Conclusion

FortiMail is widely regarded for its ease of deployment, offering flexible options such as virtual machine installations either on-premises or in the cloud. This adaptability ensures seamless integration with existing infrastructure and scalability to meet evolving needs. Additionally, its intuitive management interface simplifies and streamlines the deployment process.

Fortinet has acquired Perception Point to further enhance its email security solutions. The acquisition, announced on December 11, 2024, marks a significant step forward. We will closely monitor how Perception Point's technology is integrated into FortiMail.