Proofpoint understands that data breaches can take place through outgoing as well as incoming communications, and through a wide variety of channels: email, chat, collaboration tools. At the recent HIMSS conference, Brittany Quemby from Healthcare IT Today saw a demo by Proofpoint’s Director of Product Marketing, Andrew Goodman, that shows the sophistication of analysis performed automatically by Proofpoint’s solution.
Some of the simpler checks include finding a URL that has been altered in the hope of making the victim send data to a malicious site. But Proofpoint can also notice that a sender might be accidentally sending data to the wrong recipient or attaching the wrong file. The system has been trained to detect common traits of malicious email, such as an artificial urgency. The system forms a baseline of typical behavior for each user, and recognizes suspicious changes such as large amounts of attachments.
Goodman says promulgating good policies is not enough, because users are often tempted to send sensitive data to their personal accounts. One of the large gaps in many healthcare organizations is addressing their users sending sensitive and private data from their work email account to external emails or their own personal email.
The reality today is that business email compromise is one of the most common types of breaches and most bad actors are leveraging AI to accelerate the number of malicious emails they’re sending. Every healthcare organization needs to have systems in place to address malicious and inappropriate inbound and outbound emails.
Watch the video below to learn more about how Proofpoint is helping healthcare organizations to address potential security and privacy issues with inbound and outbound emails.
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