Each day more than 100 billion corporate email messages are exchanged1. Who doesn’t need to do a little housekeeping and eliminate unwanted emails? But you need to think twice before you click on “unsubscribe.”
As you likely read in the 2015 Cisco Annual Security Report, attackers are using applications users inherently trust or view as benign, like web browser add-ons, to distribute malware. One of the latest phishing techniques is graymail – directing the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of a seemingly innocuous marketing email to a malware infested website. Many of us click on these links without a second thought. But instead of ridding ourselves of unwanted emails, we’re actually opening ourselves up to an attack.
This is just one example of how attackers continue to innovate, and Cisco does as well. Our new AsyncOS release for Cisco Email Security Appliance (Cisco ESA) demonstrates how Cisco empowers you with a threat-centric approach to security and more comprehensive management control.
This post was written by guest blogger Wesley King, a business systems analyst at Cisco
Karen Walker, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Cisco and interim CMO, highlights some of the key findings from the report:
