Beyond Catching Sender Spoofing – using AI to stop email fraud and Business Email Compromise -

In September, we announced our new email security technologies powered by XGen and a new product, Smart Protection for Office 365. One key technology introduced was our new AI based Email fraud, or Business Email Compromise (BEC), detection technique. A user receiving a BEC email will have a difficult time telling whether it is fake or real. He or she would likely focus on the action they need to take to satisfy the urgent request of an executive and miss subtle indications that the email was fake. Traditional email security solutions struggle with these attacks since there is usually no attachment or URL to examine and content looks the same as a legitimate email.