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Inbound Security: Overview

Inbound security is included with Paubox Email Suite Plus and Paubox Email Suite Premium (not Paubox Email Suite Standard). 

 

What is inbound security?

Paubox's Inbound Security protects your organization's inboxes against ransomware, malware, phishing, and display name spoofing attacks, in addition to filtering out unwanted spam. 

Key configurable features of Paubox's Inbound Security include: 

  • ExecProtect with ExecProtect+ (patented display name spoofing prevention)
  • Geofencing (block email by country of origin or transport)
  • Robust block and allow rules to block by sender or domain
  • Adjustable spam filter 
  • Quarantine review and release

 

How inbound security works

Every inbound email goes through a multi-layered filtering process designed to protect your organization from malicious or unwanted messages. Here’s how our inbound security solution works, step by step:

Stage 1: Sender validation

This stage verifies the legitimacy of the sending domain and server, including:

  • Domain and SPF record validation
  • Reputation checks on the sending email server

What happens: Emails that fail these checks are rejected and bounced back to the sender.


Stage 2: Virus and phishing detection

Emails are scanned for:

  • Embedded macros
  • Phishing links
  • Ransomware and other forms of malware

What happens: Emails identified as containing viruses or phishing content are placed in quarantine and not delivered to the recipient.

Stage 3: Advanced filtering

Addiltional filters detect unwanted or potentially harmful emails:
  • ExecProtect for display name spoofing 
  • Custom rulesets
  • Geofencing
  • Content and metadata analysis for spam detection
  • Inbound DLP rules

What happens: Emails flagged during this stage are placed in quarantine. 

How to set up Inbound Security

If you are a Paubox Email Suite Standard customer, contact Paubox support to upgrade your subscription to Plus or Premium. 

If you are a Paubox Email Suite Plus or Premium customer, Inbound Security should be enabled in your Paubox dashboard. Click on Mail Log in the Inbound Security section to make sure your incoming email is being handled by Paubox. (If you don't see your incoming email traffic, or do not see a Paubox Inbound Security section, contact Paubox support.) 

 

Paubox Support: support@paubox.com