Email Guardian

Solution Overview

Email Guardian is a complete email protection service that protects mailboxes from all modern malicious threats. It provides a best in class Antispam solution but also the combined power of Antivirus, AntiSpear Phishing, and Domain Protection to keep your mailboxes safe. Email Guardian requires minimal up-front expense and you are billed monthly based on the number of licensed mailboxes. Fully customizable per user or per company to fine tune what emails are allowed to come through.

Market Conditions

All businesses operate with some sort of email infrastructure in place. Email has become a vital part of business communication and is vital to the survival of many businesses. Email is the #1 vector for hackers to penetrate companies large or small. Many customers “assume” their email provider is providing the necessary protections which is rarely true. Email protection comes in many forms and even companies with IT Departments have rarely are provided the resources to have a complete solution which evolves to ever the ever-changing threats.

Audience – Target Market/Customer

Vertical: Any vertical with email. Special emphasis on verticals which have regulatory compliance needs which require email protection such as Healthcare or financial.

Horizontal: This is an organizational solution; however, the focus is generally on the technology decision makers.

Buyers depend on the size of the organization and can include the CEO, President, CTO, CFO, or
MSP. Key influencers and power users include Engineering or Technology Manager

Customer Pain

Do they get “too much” spam? (in their opinion this is either a problem or not)
Have received fake emails from KDM asking them to buy gift cards, wire money, change banking information (spear phishing)
Knows the need increased email security – regulatory, problems in the past
Has had fake emails sent outFrustrated with existing solution – too many things blocked that should not or not enough being blocked

Business Benefit

Email Guardian saves you time by reducing the clutter of your inbox by blocking spam as well as protecting with Antivirus, AntiSpear Phishing, as well as Email Data and Domain Protection solutions. Flexible billing adapts to your business conditions.

When to Engage / When Not to Engage

WHEN: They are sensitive to email protection, getting too much spam, or concern about advanced email threats like spear phishing.

WHEN NOT TO: If they do not perceive email protection or spam filtering as a problem

Key Features

Monthly usage billing that only charges you for what you use
Cloud Portal access for your team to be manage and monitor if they wish
Fully Cloud based - highly available and instantly updated against new threats
No IT Team maintenance needed. Fully managed.
Full integration into PCS TrackIT ticketing system for our Network Operations Center to monitor
Fast and easy to setup
Scans e-mail in real-time using behavioral, heuristic, and sandboxing technologies to protect against zero hour and targeted attacks

Anti-Spear Phishing Protection
Domain Protection
Compatible with all major email platforms
Link protection examines e-mails for URL links to malicious code
Best in Class Spam filtering (inbound and outbound)
Virus scanning (inbound and outbound)
Outbound filtering options available to protect your private data
Email Continuity, will hold your emails for you in case your server goes down

The Competition

Specific Propositions (Things our customers care about)

Nobody likes spam so knowing we can reduce it dramatically is key.
Have they ever had a user “click the link” they know they shouldn’t have? Let’s prevent that link from getting through in the first place
Self-Management available per user or per domain to customize what does and doesn’t get through
Those who have received fake emails from KDM asking them to buy gift cards, wire money, change banking information (spear phishing) are a good target because it shows their existing solution didn’t block it.

Differentiators

Email Guardian has a completely flexible billing model which adjusts as your business needs change.
Email Guardian goes beyond normal spam filtering to include anti-virus protection, protection against phishing as well as spear phishing attempts which is an incredibly powerful combination you won’t find in other single solutions.
Only the most advanced solutions include Spear Phishing protection.
Fully customizable per user and/or per company

FAQs

1. Question: What is included with Email Guardian?

Answer: All licensing Costs, Full Secure Remote Access to Cloud Portal for self-service management, monitoring and alerting of serious events by our Network Operations team.

2. Question: What email platform is Email Guardian compatible with?

Answer: All major email platforms

3. Question: How exactly does Email Guardian protect my email?

Answer: Cloud servers pre-process email, detonate the malicious content, and deliver the rest

4. Question: What is Spear Phishing?

Answer: An email from an account that “looks like” someone you know (a boss, relative, etc) asking you to buy giftcards or change bank routing information, etc.