New cloud platform helps protect against business email compromise

Email compromise via spoofed domains or compromised accounts is a major problem. But a new cloud platform from Abnormal Security tracks the reputations of an organization's vendors and customers, and improves detection accuracy of advanced social engineering attacks. VendorBase is a global database that gives organizations the ability to see detailed views of all vendors, including profile information, the VendorBase risk assessment score, explanations on risk scores, a timeline view of relevant email communication and security activity for that vendor. "Our goal from the beginning is to provide the industry’s best detection accuracy of sophisticated BEC attacks," says Evan Reiser, CEO… [Continue Reading]