Email Gateway

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An email gateway is a server that acts as the control point for all incoming and outgoing email traffic to protect the organization’s internal servers.

• scrutinizes all emails to remove potential threats before they reach inboxes
• utilize several security measures:
  • anti-spam filters
  • antivirus scanners
  • sophisticated threat detection algorithms
    • to identify phishing attempts, malicious URLs, and harmful attachments
• leverages DMARC, SPF, and DKIM
  • to automate the authentication and validation of email sender
• play a critical role in policy enforcement
  • by allowing organizations to create rules related to email content and attachments based on established policies or regulatory compliance requirements
• common tasks:
  • Attachment blocking
  • content filtering
  • data loss prevention