Email & Collaboration Security for Greater Sudbury & Northern Ontario

Microsoft 365 includes baseline spam and malware filtering, and Exchange Online Protection catches a lot of obvious junk. It's not designed to catch every targeted phishing attempt, business email compromise, or a malicious link that's clean at the time of delivery but gets weaponized hours later. We layer additional inspection on top that specifically targets those gaps.

BEC is when an attacker either compromises a real mailbox or impersonates someone your staff trusts, usually an executive or a vendor, and asks for a wire transfer, gift cards, or a change to banking details. There's no malware or attachment to scan, so traditional filters miss it. BEC protection looks at sender behaviour, display-name spoofing, look-alike domains, and unusual financial-request language instead of just scanning for bad files.

Yes. Time-of-click protection re-checks links when a user actually clicks them, not just when the email first arrives, which matters because attackers often host a clean page at send time and swap in a phishing page hours or days later. Attachments are sandboxed and detonated in an isolated environment before being released to the inbox.

Yes. Collaboration security extends scanning to files shared in Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive, since attackers increasingly plant malicious files inside shared links rather than email attachments once they know email is being watched closely.

Reported messages get triaged and, if confirmed malicious, we can pull the same message from every other inbox it landed in across your organization, before more people click it. We also feed genuine misses back into filtering rules so the same attack doesn't get through twice.

Yes. We deploy mail flow protection for both Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, since a growing number of Northern Ontario businesses run Workspace instead of, or alongside, Microsoft 365.

They're complementary, not the same. Email security stops threats technically, before or at the point of delivery. Security awareness training teaches your staff to recognize what gets through anyway, since no filter catches everything. We recommend running both together.

Email and collaboration security runs as part of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, the same platform we use for backup, endpoint detection, and data loss prevention, so a detection on one layer (say, a malicious link clicked despite filtering) can inform response on another, like isolating the affected device.