Cracking the Email Security Code: 12 Best Practices for Small and Midsize Businesses

Cracking the Email Security Code: 12 Best Practices for Small and Midsize Businesses 14 June, 2022 Candid Wüest Cracking the Email Security Code: 12 Best Practices for Small and Midsize Businesses It only takes one successful attack to spell disaster for a company. Learn how to protect your company with this email security best practice guide

Cybercriminals know this, with phishing and other email-targeting tactics the top attack vectors ? because they work so well. And as we discussed in the first article of this two-part series, "For MSPs, Next-Gen Email Security Is a Must," advances in automation have made it easy to run these attacks at scale, with no organization too small to target anymore.
It only takes one successful attack to spell disaster. What can you do to protect your company? Although proper email security is never a walk in the park, we have prepared a checklist of email security best practices for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), divided into three categories: organizational culture, security posture management, and technology stack.

Organizational Culture

A security-first organizational culture bolsters email safety by prioritizing the following:

Clear policies: Get IT and business leaders to co-formulate clear security policies, including email-specific ones. Continuous reinforcement: Make email security practices part of employee onboarding, ongoing training, and performance reviews.

Peer buy-in: Buy-in for the company's security strategy from non-security peers is crucial for good security outcomes for SMBs.

Learning from incidents: Leverage email security incidents to address vulnerabilities and finetune policies.

Acronis and Email Security

Whether a business manages email security itself or turns to an MSP, having an integrated data protection and cybersecurity solution that secures an organization's online assets — including email — is critical. Learn how Acronis can help with its cyber protection solutions, featuring ML-based anti-malware, antivirus, and anti-ransomware protection, fail-proof patching, continuous backups, safe and rapid recovery, global threat monitoring, smart alerts, and more.