Alberta · Email Security

Email Security for Alberta Businesses

Not a spam filter that catches obvious junk and waves the convincing stuff through. Phishing, malicious attachments, and spoofed senders blocked before they ever reach an inbox — the first line of defense, included in every LogosCyber plan.

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What It Actually Is

Most attacks never need to trick anyone, if they never reach an inbox.

The most reliable defense against a convincing fake email is not teaching someone to spot it — it is making sure they never see it. Every message is inspected before delivery: sender authenticity, spoofed and lookalike domains, malicious links, and dangerous attachments are all checked, and anything that fails gets blocked before it lands.

A lot of email fraud does not involve malware at all — just a convincing message asking for a payment, a password, or an urgent favour. Catching that requires more than scanning for known-bad files; it means recognizing spoofed display names, fake lookalike domains, and even real vendor accounts behaving unusually after being compromised. What still gets through anyway is exactly what phishing simulation is built to test your team against.

$3.05B
Lost to BEC in 2025
reported losses from business email compromise in a single year, across nearly 25,000 complaints
191,561
Phishing Complaints
filed with the FBI in 2025 — more than any other category of reported cybercrime
23%
Wire Transfers Recovered
of reported BEC wire fraud is successfully recovered once it's already been sent — prevention is the real defense

Source: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), 2025 Internet Crime Report.

Why This Actually Works

Once a fraudulent payment goes out, getting it back is the exception, not the rule.

Less than a quarter of reported business email compromise wire fraud is ever recovered. That single number is the whole argument for stopping a message before it is acted on, rather than trying to unwind the damage after — by the time a payment has gone out, the odds are already against getting it back.

That is why filtering has to go beyond known-bad senders. A real vendor's account, actually compromised, still passes a basic sender check — it is a legitimate address. Catching that means watching for unusual behaviour and inconsistencies, not just matching against a blocklist, since a growing share of the most damaging fraud now comes from accounts that were never fake to begin with.

The Jargon, Decoded

Terms you might see, translated.

What the industry calls itWhat it actually meansWhy it matters to you
SpoofingFaking who a message is fromMaking an email appear to come from a trusted sender — a vendor, a coworker, an executive — when it did not.
DMARC / SPF / DKIMChecks that confirm a sender is realTechnical standards email systems use to verify a message actually came from who it claims to be from, rather than a forged address.
Lookalike DomainA fake web address that looks real at a glanceA domain swapped by a letter or two — close enough to pass a quick glance, different enough to belong to an attacker.
Vendor Email Compromise (VEC)A real vendor account, actually hackedFraud sent from a genuine, compromised business partner account — not a fake sender, which is why it is harder to catch and more convincing when it lands.

How It Actually Runs

The process, start to finish.

1

Every message gets checked before delivery

Sender authenticity, links, and attachments are inspected before an email ever reaches an inbox — not after.

2

Spoofed and lookalike senders get caught

Domain and display-name tricks are flagged even when a message looks legitimate at first glance.

3

Anything that still gets through gets tested for

No filter catches everything, which is exactly what ongoing phishing simulation is there to measure and improve.

Included, Not Upsold

Email security is in every LogosCyber plan.

This isn't a feature you have to upgrade to get. Every plan gets the same filtering on every inbox — the only choice across tiers is your Cork Cyber financial warranty level, not whether your email is actually protected.

Common Questions

What business owners ask before signing up.

“We already have the built-in spam filter from Microsoft 365 or Google — isn't that enough?”

It catches obvious spam, not targeted fraud.

Built-in filtering is tuned for mass spam and known malware. A convincing, targeted fake invoice with no malicious attachment at all often passes right through it, which is exactly the gap this closes.

“What about emails from a real vendor whose account was compromised?”

That gets caught on behaviour, not just identity.

A genuine, hacked account is still a genuine address, so it is flagged based on unusual patterns and content rather than simply checking whether the sender looks legitimate.

“Will this block legitimate emails by mistake?”

Rarely, and it is a quick fix when it happens.

False positives get reviewed and released quickly rather than staying stuck. The goal is stopping real fraud, not creating a new bottleneck for normal business email.

“Does this work with both Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace?”

Yes, either platform.

Coverage applies the same way regardless of which platform your business runs its email through.

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