Varonis Interceptor: AI-Powered Email Security

Businesses today face a new wave of sophisticated email threats powered by artificial intelligence, making advanced protection essential for safeguarding sensitive information. Varonis Interceptor introduces a groundbreaking, AI-native email security solution designed to counter these evolving dangers. Attackers now use AI to craft highly deceptive phishing campaigns, mimicking legitimate communication styles, branding elements, and even audio or video content. These automated threats often slip past human oversight and traditional security tools, creating an urgent need for equally intelligent defenses.

To combat malicious AI, organizations must deploy AI-driven security measures. Varonis Interceptor employs multiple integrated layers of artificial intelligence analysis, addressing known attack methods while predicting previously unseen threats. This comprehensive strategy achieves the highest detection rate available, identifying advanced business email compromise, social engineering, and phishing attempts that competing products overlook entirely.

The cybersecurity environment has transformed dramatically. Are your defenses keeping pace?

Early AI-based email security tools depend too much on natural language processing as a universal solution, while others neglect behavioral analysis or fail to inspect visual email components using AI computer vision. Modern phishing and social engineering attacks demand a multifaceted, layered defensive approach.

Interceptor moves beyond ineffective API-dependent solutions and enhances legacy secure email gateways through a true multimodal AI framework. By unifying numerous AI analysis sources, it delivers superior threat detection and more reliable protection.

A multimodal strategy ensures defense in depth for email security.

Effective email protection must adopt a multimodal methodology to accurately identify contemporary threats. Cybercriminals increasingly diversify their techniques, employing text manipulation, image-based phishing lures, and concealed malicious links to bypass conventional filters.

By integrating signals from visual, linguistic, and behavioral analysis, Interceptor precisely spots and blocks AI-generated dangers. Security teams benefit from fewer false positives and negatives, reducing unnecessary alerts and streamlining their workflow.

Our recent analysis of data from one thousand real-world IT settings revealed that no organization remains entirely breach-proof. In fact, an overwhelming 99% of companies have exposed sensitive data that AI can readily uncover.

Vision Model

Interceptor’s vision model replicates how people visually perceive each email or webpage, identifying subtle deceptive cues within layouts, images, and other graphical components. This includes verifying logo authenticity in email signatures or websites, detecting attackers hiding text within images, and spotting QR codes embedded in PDFs or disguised as text to evade image analysis.

Language Model

Interceptor’s language model establishes a baseline for each sender’s tone and linguistic patterns, covering external vendors and internal correspondents alike. It evaluates message topic, tone, and intent to pinpoint manipulation tactics typical in social engineering. The model excels where standard NLP systems falter, such as with brief messages lacking context, emails containing multiple disjointed topics designed to confuse AI, and link-free business email compromise attempts.

Behavior Model

Varonis’ behavior model leverages relationship graphs and known communication patterns to identify deviations from established norms. Interceptor comprehends a wide range of social dynamics, including relationship graphs for internal and external contacts, organizational structure and context, and typical conversational styles and subjects.

This layered, real-time threat identification method has demonstrated superior performance compared to other leading providers. Security leaders prioritize detection accuracy above all, and Varonis Interceptor instills confidence in defensive measures while ensuring user trust in their inboxes.

Detecting zero-hour threats with the Interceptor Phishing Sandbox

Beyond analyzing individual messages, Varonis Interceptor proactively examines nearly every newly registered domain and published URL within its phishing sandbox, enabling rapid and thorough assessment.

The Phishing Sandbox traces the entire user pathway, navigating beyond form fills, CAPTCHAs, Cloudflare authentication, and other obstacles. This allows Varonis to uncover potential deception aimed at stealing credentials or confidential data.

Interceptor frequently becomes the first AI system worldwide to encounter and evaluate a malicious site before any other agent or individual. Consequently, Varonis blocks harmful domains and URLs 12 to 24 hours ahead of rival solutions, automatically eliminating emails containing those threats.

Multichannel protection extending beyond the inbox through Interceptor Browser Security

Cybercriminals increasingly target users with social engineering assaults across email, messaging, collaboration platforms, and social applications. A solution spanning multiple channels is now indispensable. Interceptor expands coverage to web browsers, blocking malicious websites regardless of where link-based attacks originate.

Many dangerous links evade security controls that rely solely on known threat databases. Interceptor gains early warnings from its phishing sandbox and live threat intelligence, halting threats at their inception. The lightweight Interceptor Browser Extension, compatible with all major browsers, shields employees from active phishing sites.

An end-to-end strategy to prevent breaches

Combining Varonis Interceptor’s exceptional threat detection with the Varonis Data Security Platform and Managed Data Detection and Response service accelerates our capacity to thwart data breach attempts earlier in the attack sequence.

Varonis integrates seamlessly with email services such as Microsoft Exchange Online, classifying inbound and outbound traffic that contains sensitive data, correcting posture issues on exposed mailboxes, and monitoring unusual email traffic for insider risks using industry-leading behavioral analytics.

The introduction of Varonis Interceptor marks a substantial leap forward in comprehensive email and browser security. By leveraging multimodal AI capabilities, it more efficiently identifies and neutralizes phishing threats than existing market alternatives. Varonis Interceptor empowers businesses to secure their inboxes with assurance, thereby protecting the critical data within their digital infrastructure.

Join our live demonstration to see Interceptor operating in real time and discover how Varonis delivers authentic AI-powered security outcomes.

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(Source: Bleeping Computer)