Advanced Email Threat Protection
Fake invoices, CEO fraud emails and supplier impersonation attempts are far more likely to get caught before they reach your inbox, because every inbound message is verified against who actually sent it.
What you're actually up against
Phishing & Social Engineering
Employees can be tricked into revealing passwords or sensitive information.
Ransomware
Attackers can encrypt business data and demand payment to restore access.
Weak Passwords
Compromised or reused passwords can provide attackers with access to business systems.
Unpatched Systems
Outdated software can contain vulnerabilities that attackers exploit.
Data Breaches
Sensitive customer, employee and business information can be exposed or stolen.
What happens without Advanced Email Threat Protection
The most expensive email attacks on small businesses often contain no malware at all. A message that looks like it came from your supplier, your accountant or your own senior manager asks for a payment or a bank account change. Your team acts on it in good faith. By the time anyone realises, the money has gone.
This kind of fraud, known as business email compromise, keeps growing because it works. It bypasses filters that only scan for viruses or bad links. A standard spam filter has no way to tell whether the name in your inbox genuinely sent that message, or whether someone carefully crafted a convincing copy of it.
What you'll get once Advanced Email Threat Protection is in place
- Inbound email filtering that catches spam, malware attachments and phishing links before messages ever reach your team.
- A dedicated impersonation-detection layer that checks sender authenticity using SPF, DKIM and DMARC, the technical standards that confirm whether a message actually came from the domain it claims to.
- Targeted protection against business email compromise attempts, including fake invoices, fraudulent payment requests and messages impersonating suppliers or colleagues.
- An additional line of defence that goes beyond the built-in spam filter included with standard email platforms, which often miss targeted impersonation attacks entirely.
Part of these bundles
Advanced Email Threat Protection pairs well with these other products and services we offer
Real people, not just a checklist
A lot of providers hand you a generic package and a login. We hand you a plan built around your business, and people who explain what's actually going on.
Hands-on support
A named specialist guides you through everything, no generic self-service portal.
Structured readiness review
We check your submission is ready before it goes for formal assessment, so you're not caught out by an easy-to-avoid mistake.
Fast turnaround
Certification in as little as 5 working days, security reviews and testing often start within days.
Nothing lapses silently
We track certificate expiry and follow-up scans ahead of time, so your protection never quietly goes stale.
One team, every service
Penetration testing, vulnerability testing, and ongoing monitoring handled in-house by our own team. Certification is coordinated end-to-end by us with an accredited certification body, so you get one point of contact, not several vendors to manage.
Certification pass guarantee
If you don't pass Cyber Essentials first time, we work with you at no extra cost until you do.
Hands-on support
A named specialist guides you through everything, no generic self-service portal.
Structured readiness review
We check your submission is ready before it goes for formal assessment, so you're not caught out by an easy-to-avoid mistake.
Fast turnaround
Certification in as little as 5 working days, security reviews and testing often start within days.
Nothing lapses silently
We track certificate expiry and follow-up scans ahead of time, so your protection never quietly goes stale.
One team, every service
Penetration testing, vulnerability testing, and ongoing monitoring handled in-house by our own team. Certification is coordinated end-to-end by us with an accredited certification body, so you get one point of contact, not several vendors to manage.
Certification pass guarantee
If you don't pass Cyber Essentials first time, we work with you at no extra cost until you do.
Advanced Email Threat Protection questions
Business email compromise is when a fraudster sends an email impersonating someone your team trusts, a supplier, an accountant, a senior colleague, or even your own manager. The goal is usually to trigger a payment or obtain sensitive information. No virus is involved, which is exactly what makes it effective. UK businesses report significant losses to this type of fraud every year, and smaller businesses are frequently targeted because they tend to have fewer approval checks around payments.
Standard spam filters are built to catch bulk junk mail, known malware and obvious phishing. They are not designed to detect impersonation. A well-crafted fake invoice can pass straight through a standard filter because it carries no malicious link or attachment, it simply looks like a legitimate message from a name your team recognises. This service adds a layer that checks whether the sender is genuinely who they claim to be, which built-in filters do not typically do at standard licence levels.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC are authentication standards that verify whether an email genuinely came from the domain shown in the sender address. Think of them as background identity checks on every message, a bit like a postmark confirming where a letter was actually posted from. This service applies those checks automatically on every inbound email. In most cases there is nothing you need to set up yourself as part of using the service.
No filter catches everything, and it would be misleading to suggest otherwise. This service significantly reduces the number of impersonation attempts that reach your team, but some will still get through, particularly if an attacker has actually gained access to a real supplier or contact's email account rather than just faking the address. Staff awareness still matters. Any unexpected payment request or change to bank details is worth verifying by phone on a known number before acting on it.
Both platforms include some spam and malware filtering, but the level of impersonation detection they provide depends on your licence tier and is generally not tuned specifically for the business email compromise patterns that target SMEs. This service sits alongside your existing platform and adds the sender authentication checks and impersonation-detection layer that built-in filtering often lacks at standard subscription levels.
Get a clear answer on what your business actually needs.
Free, no-obligation 10-minute call, we'll tell you honestly, even if that means less work for us.
No sales pressure, no confusing quotes. Tell us about your business and your contracts, and we'll tell you exactly which certification and services make sense, and what it'll cost.
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