Gmail security sandbox: Google continues to develop new security features to help users stop ransomware that is commonly circulated by email.
Although the massive ones attacks ransomware are not that common, targeted attacks are increasing and causing major problems for companies and government organizations. We have recently mentioned that a city council in Florida decided to pay 600.000 to ransom after a ransomware attack.
Google's new security sandbox aims to tackle threats coming from the inbox by tackling malicious attachments scripts.
Email attachments can be opened normally, but Google can check the behavior of the scripts they may contain and detect the threats.
The company announced this feature in beta format this April and has now made it available to G Suite users.
The security feature is similar to its functions Office 365 που είναι διαθέσιμες στους εταιρικούς πελάτες της Microsoft μέσω τους Advanced Threat Protection. Το Advanced Threat Protection προσφέρει ένα “θάλαμο” ανοίγματος διευθύνσεων URL και επιπλέον προστασία από το ηλεκτρονικό fishing.
G Suite administrators can configure the messages to be sent via sandbox to received emails or quarantined by admin. Features will be released to Google corporate customers within a few weeks.
Google also helps protect against spam in businesses using Gmail (business email compromise or BEC), which has cost American companies 1,3 billion dollars 2018.
"The default security feature promises to help companies detect unverified emails that try to infringe on your domain and choose to automatically display a warning banner, send it directly to spam or quarantine messages." says Google.
Finally, Google introduced the automated "confidential" or confidential mode email in Gmail that we mentioned previous publication.